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
Standing Together in Solidarity
The tragic incident where Uganda has lost one of its power women, Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegai, burnt to death by her Kenyan boyfriend due to a land dispute is a true testament to the persistent challenges that women face as they strive to assert their land and property rights.
Promoting women’s land rights could stem tobacco growing
Monitor — Rita Kemigisa was interviewed about S4HL Uganda's work on gender transformative approaches at the community level and their advocacy for gender responsive land services at the national level.
Inheritance practices still hindering women’s land rights
Monitor — S4HL Uganda is identifying and transforming harmful patriarchal norms that lock women and girls out of owning, inheriting, and making decisions on land.
Why land is key to tackling climate change and infrastructure gaps
World Bank Blog — Stand for Her Land is a part of the World Bank's new program on Land Tenure Security and Land Access for Climate Goals. The program recognizes that scaling up investments in land tenure and administration is critical to both closing the global infrastructure gap and for equitably tackling climate change.
Iniciativa de educación y comunicación popular sobre masculinidades no violentas
COLOMBIA — La coalición S4HL Colombia ha desarrollado la iniciativa de educación y comunicación popular, "Ajá... ¿y por qué no? Hombres comprometidos con la equidad de género." Comprende cinco capítulos de producciones sonoras en español sobre masculinidades no violentas y una guía pedagógica para acompañar conversaciones comunitarias con hombres líderes de organizaciones, comunidades y compañeros de las mujeres de la Coalición.The S4HL Colombia coalition has developed the popular education and communication initiative "Aha... And Why Not? Men Committed to Gender Equity." It includes five chapters of sound productions in Spanish on non-violent masculinities and a pedagogical guide to accompany community conversations with male leaders of organizations, communities and partners of women in the Coalition.
