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.
Unidad Indígena del Pueblo Awá (UNIPA)
Faridul Islam, Agriculture Extension Officer
Rehema
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
Beyond Beijing: The revolution of women’s land rights, control and ownership at CSW69
The Guardian Tanzania — At CSW69, Stand for Her Land emphasized the power of coalition-building to advance rural women’s land rights, calling for stronger grassroots leadership, inclusive policy reforms, and sustained global action to close the gender land gap.
What is stopping women in Africa from inheriting land?
BBC World Service — Esther Mwaura-Muiru, S4HL’s global advocacy director, is featured on the BBC World Service’s Africa Daily podcast. Esther shares data and stories to highlight the cultural and systemic barriers that prevent women across Africa from owning and inheriting land.
Strengthening female voices at UNCCD COP 16: Gender Change Agents in the global action against desertification and climate change
Gender Change Agents at UNCCD COP 16 championed women’s land tenure, leadership, and inclusion in climate action and land governance.
Grassroot Women Want Issue of Ownership, Management Clearly Addressed in New National Land Policy
Africa-Press – Uganda — Speaking during a consultation meeting by the Ministry of Lands on the National Land Policy 2013 review in Kampala, a section of women mobilised by the Stand for Her Land Campaign said there is need to move away from some cultural beliefs that stop them from owning land.
Barriers to Ensuring Women’s Land Rights and the Way Forward
The Daily Star — In a roundtable with ALRD and partners, experts highlighted barriers to women’s land rights in Bangladesh, including discriminatory inheritance laws and limited land ownership despite women making up 58% of agricultural workers. Recommendations included equal inheritance rights, policy revisions, and greater recognition of women's agricultural contributions.