Online Discussion: How Can Women's Land Rights be Secured

From the Global Women's Network

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New York, NY, United States

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ILC, FAO and IFAD are organizing a side-event at the 56th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to learn from policies, projects and processes through which women's land rights have been secured. This discussion wants to gather inputs to enrich our debate in New York and raise the profile of women's land rights issues in the CSW more generally. Why are women's land rights so important? The most important resource for rural women is land. Despite women's critical role and contribution to agriculture, rural development, and food security, women across the world are discriminated in terms of their access to, ownership of and control over land, and the income produced from it. Women's ability to access land and to claim, use and defend rights to land and other natural resources is weakened by their status within the household and community, as well as discriminatory customary or statutory laws. Growing commercial pressures on land increase dependency on subsistence agriculture and further undermine women's land rights.

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Date: 2012/02/27
Time: 1200

Sectors: Economic Empowerment

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