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 women's land?
Around the world, land serves as a foundation for security, shelter, income and livelihoods. But rights to land are not equitably distributed to us all. This is especially true for women. In fact, women still encounter persistent barriers to their land rights – despite laws and policies that enshrine those rights – in more than half the countries in the world.
It’s time we break down those barriers.
About the Campaign
The Stand For Her Land Campaign aims to close the gap between laws and practice so that millions of women can realize land rights in their daily lives, across contexts and around the world. Because whether she lives in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the tropical forests of Liberia or the highlands of India, every woman deserves full and equal rights to land.
Women cannot be owned as property, but land as property can be owned by women.
What’s New
Women in Half the World Still Denied Land, Property Rights Despite Laws
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Global campaign Stand For Her Land aims to bridge gap between law and practice so that women can realize their equal rights to land.
Three things to know about women’s land rights today
In a video blog marking the International Day of Rural Women, Victoria Stanley and Anna Wellenstein of the World Bank discuss three “headlines” one may encounter on women and land.