By: Luke Bisani
Date: 18 September 2016
Source: Malawi24
Women across Africa have been mobilised to call on leaders on the continent to address land rights issues as one way of achieving sustainable development.
The call comes at time when women in rural areas of Africa are seen as having no piece of land, a development that has brought hiccups on food production on the continent.
By: Kizito Makoye Shigela
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: In Depth News
VILABWA, Tanzania (IDN) - At a small village south of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, women rarely talk about land issues because customary norms keep them at bay. “We don’t have the voice, its men who decide everything,” said Saada Hassan a resident of Vilabwa.
By: Holly Miller
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: Women's Agenda
Date: September 3rd 2016
Source: The News Pakistan
Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 2nd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.
By: Seth J. Bokpe
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Graphic.com
Ghana needs to regulate and limit the size of land companies can acquire for any purposes, including real estate and agriculture.
This was the view of participants in a workshop to disseminate the findings of a research on large-scale land acquisition and its impact on women in Africa.
By: Express News Service
Date: August 28th 2016
Source: the New Indian Express
BHUBANESWAR: The Gajapati district administration has launched a Women Support Centre (WSC) programme to prioritise land allocation to landless single women and help them access various Government schemes.
Date: August 26, 2016
Source: Action Aid press release
In Malawi, women’s land rights are often governed by customary laws, which are unwritten and lead to the marginalisation of women. Incredibly, women own just 1% of Africa’s land. In the village of Chikojo in Malawi, Maureen Adson is taking a stand.
Find out how you can support women like Maureen here!
By: Betty Mutesi (International Alert)
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In rural Rwanda, as in most developing countries, owning and controlling land determines whether you are rich or poor. In a country where some 57% of the population live below the poverty line, land is a prime resource.
By: Filbert Rweyemamu
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Arusha — Women from marginalized communities in Africa will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in order to raise awareness about land rights this October.
Programme manager of the Tanzania Gender Network Programme (TGNP) Grace Kisetu, said : "Land and its resources account for 10 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for many African countries.
By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last year's twin earthquakes in Nepal disproportionately affected single women, underlining the need for equal land ownership to increase their resilience in disasters, a women's rights activist has said.
