Her rights.
Her land.
A better future
for all.
Help make land rights a reality for
millions of women around the world.
The Women’s Land Rights (WLR) Platform is an inclusive space for women across the world to share and document their experiences and perspectives around land rights.
We aim to use storytelling as an impactful tool for advocacy and movement building, while also mapping organizations across the world who are working in various sectors that intersect the WLR movement.
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Joyce Taali
Barbara Mwagale
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 Initiative
The Stand for Her Land Initiative 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
No land, no future: Why women’s rights are key to land restoration efforts
The Star — Esther Mwaura Muiru was cited in an article about the current land challenges women face, including laws and customs that hinder women from owning, purchasing, or sustainably managing land in Kenya.
Women Land Rights Advocates Want Men Involved in Fight for Equal Ownership
Uganda Radio Network — Stand for Her Land, UCOBAC, and partners co-organized Uganda’s fourth Women’s Land Rights Conference and partners to address barriers to women’s land ownership and inheritance.
Her fields, her future
As we mark International Rural Women's Day and celebrate the International Year of the Woman Farmer, we share four stories of women whose lives have been transformed through stronger land rights.
Who Will Restore the Land?
Pastoralist women in Karamoja are running out of land and running out of time. The answer to the land crisis is already in the community. But women need rights to take effective action.
Strengthening Women’s Land Rights Across the Rio Conventions
Both ENDS — Esther Mwaura-Muiru explains why securing women's land rights is not only a matter of justice—it is fundamental to achieving the commitments under all three Rio Conventions.