Her rights.
Her land.
A better future
for all.
Help make land rights a reality for
millions of women around the world.
Valentina Ángeles stands in front of the home she helped build with Habitat for Humanity in Hidalgo, Mexico. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Jason Asteros
Why do women’s rights to land matter?
Land is the foundation for shelter, livelihood, and climate resilience. Land is fundamental for survival.
Because land is central to power and identity, control over land is fundamental to gender justice. But despite enormous recent progress to ensure women’s equal legal rights to land and housing, we are still far from achieving equality in practice.
We cannot achieve gender equality without women’s equal rights to and control over the world’s most elemental resources: land and property. Women’s land rights are fundamental human rights.
About the Campaign
The Stand for Her Land Campaign is closing the implementation gap for women’s land rights: the gulf between the strong standards in place to protect women’s rights to land, and the realization of those rights in practice, so that millions of women can realize the transformational power of rights to land. Whether her home is a small farm in Uganda, the coastal regions of Colombia, or an informal settlement in New Delhi, India, every woman deserves firm ground to stand on.
Women cannot be owned as property, but land as property can be owned by women.
What’s New
Neither leasing nor owning land, women in Montes de María cannot enjoy the land
COLOMBIA — This in-depth investigative piece on the state of women's land rights in Montes de María is a product of the alliance between the Coalition of Caribbean Women for Land and Territory and Verdad Abierta as part of the S4HL Colombia campaign.
Owning land has offered me a taste of good life
NATION KENYA — Esther Mwaura-Muiru, S4HL global advocacy director, shares stories about how the campaign's advocacy efforts have already borne fruit. “In Uganda, Karamojong traditional leaders have organised themselves to push for women land rights. In Senegal we are seeing religious leaders support the cause too.”
The Campaign That’s Building Solidarity for Women’s Land Rights
In this conversation with Girls Globe, Landesa's Dr. Monica Mhoja speaks about how Stand for Her Land is organizing across countries and at the grassroots level to advocate and create opportunities for change.
Open letter in response to the national emergency regarding violence against women in Colombia
In May, a national emergency regarding gender violence was declared in Colombia. The Coalition of Caribbean Women for Land and Territory wrote an open letter addressed to the women who are no longer here because they have been murdered; to those of us who are still here living day by day the situation of violence and resisting it; to our communities where many times we are not safe and to the Colombian State.
Realising Ethiopian Women’s Rights to Land
LAND PORTAL — The S4HL Ethiopia Coalition's partnership with GIZ and the Women's Land Rights Task Force will help align resources, networks, and efforts for the common vision of strengthening women's land rights.