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June 24, 2021 Commentary

Climate Action Must Take into Account Women’s Right to Land

Climate action plans have to include measures to redress women disproportionately affected by deforestation and plantation expansion.

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June 3, 2021 News Release

Indonesia: Expanding Palm Oil Operations Bring Harm

Government Fails to Protect Affected Communities, Environment

A child carries palm kernels collected from the ground across a creek at an oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, November 2017.
August 4, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Free Prominent Trade Union Leader

Drop Fabricated Charges Against Rong Chhun

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June 27, 2020 Commentary

Divorced Women Struggle to Claim Property

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June 25, 2020 News Release

Kenya: Wives’ Property Rights Unprotected

Despite Law, Biased Practices Persist

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May 18, 2020 Commentary

After Seven Years, Displaced Villagers Might Get Land

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March 7, 2020 Commentary

Securing Women’s Property Rights in Kenya

A woman walks past a mural on a Family Health Options clinic in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, May 16, 2017. © 2017 Reuters
June 21, 2019 Dispatches

Zimbabwe’s Marriage Reform Should Do More for Women

Bill Doesn’t Protect Women’s Rights to Marital Property

Two widows in eastern Zimbabwe, facing harassment from in-laws who are trying to force them to vacate their homes and fields. Rural Eastern Zimbabwe, October 2016.
April 17, 2019 Commentary

Whoever Wins Indonesia’s Presidential Election, Indigenous People Will Lose

November 6, 2018 Dispatches

South Africa’s Constitutional Court Protects Land Rights

Landmark Rulings Protect Women and Communities Affected by Mining Companies

Xolobeni community members and environmental activists march and chant slogans in front of South Africa's Pretoria High Court, April 24, 2018.
October 29, 2018 Dispatches

Witnessing Guinea’s Bauxite Mining Boom

Efforts to Improve Oversight of Mining Need to Benefit Affected Communities

Farmers from Dapilon village, in the Boké region, look out over land, on the banks of the River Nunez, cleared for the construction of a mining port belonging to the La Société Minière de Boké consortium.
October 22, 2018 Dispatches

Philippine Sugar Plantation Massacre

Negros Killings Spotlight Peasants’ Long Struggle for Land

Protesters display placards during a rally outside a police and a military camp to protest the weekend killings of nine farmers in Sagay city
October 15, 2018 Dispatches

Rural Women and Girls Sidelined

Often Denied Equal Rights to Property, Inheritance

Women prepare food in Hamdallaye village in the Boké region. Compensation payments for land lost to mining are often paid to male heads of household or linages, even where the land is utilized by entire families or households. January 2018.
October 9, 2018 News Release

Sri Lanka: Government Slow to Return Land

Create Consultative Process to End Military Occupation

 A Sri Lankan Tamil man holds a placard during a protest in Colombo on August 21, 2018, demanding the release of lands still occupied by the military.
October 4, 2018 News Release

Guinea: Bauxite Mining Boom Threatens Rights

Drive for Revenue Shouldn’t Come at Local Residents’ Expense

A woman in Lansanayah, a village 750 meters from a bauxite mine owned by La Société Minière de Boké consortium.

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