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ILC Africa at the Landac Conference

ILC Africa's Jane Njeri Mwangi summarizes two sessions hosted by Stand for Her Land at the 2024 Landac Conference. The conference brought together various stakeholders from academia, land practitioners, civil society, and researchers to deliberate on the key conference themes.

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. These challenges are anchored in deeply entrenched discriminatory social and gender norms and associated power balances especially at the family level, and lack of recognition of centrality of women's land rights to empowerment of women and development of families, communities and economies at large. These injustices continue to be one of the leading causes of gender-based violence with extreme consequences like death, a case in point is one of our own Rebecca. We as advocates for women's land rights condemn such acts and join Ugandans and the rest of the world in mourning the loss of such a profound woman. We call for concerted efforts to promote women's land rights as a fundamental human right and end all forms of violence against women. We encourage everyone to seek peaceful means to resolve their land disputes. We demand justice for Rebecca and other women that have suffered land injustice and GBV and call on Governments to enforce the rule of law by ensuring that such culprits are brought to justice.

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.

New case study supports gender-equitable land rights to reach land degradation neutrality

Landesa and S4HL Ethiopia have released a case study on land degradation neutrality policy in the country, its impact, and its relationship to women’s land rights.

Confronting land degradation via women’s land rights

When women do have secure land rights, they are able to invest in sustainable land management practices that restore degraded lands and prevent future harm.

National Alliance of Women and Land welcomes new measures taken by the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Livestock

DAKAR — The S4HL Senegal coalition welcomes the recent decisions taken by the new authorities to improve land management, and calls for them to account for the specific needs of vulnerable groups, particularly women and young people.

Pioneering systems change: grassroots action forges gender-just pathways to accountability

Learn more about Haki Ardhi - an accessible, decentralized digital rights reporting tool that enables women in Kenya to safely report tenure rights infringements to local, community-based support actors. Near real-time data on rights violations allow these organizations to respond immediately and support women through mediation, legal aid, and advocacy.

To invest in women’s economic empowerment, finance solutions from the ground up

To close the gap on women's land rights, we must challenge discriminatory social norms, empower grassroots women to lead, and finance solutions from the ground up.

Beyond Land Access, Control, and Ownership: Rural Women’s Call

For Rural Women's Day, the S4HL Tanzania Coalition in collaboration with the Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Women and Special Group organized a Rural Women Forum in Arusha. It was a space for rural women to learn about and share real-life stories on issues related to land rights, women’s role on land governance, climate action leadership, and food security.

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.

The nexus between gender, land rights and climate change

THE MONITOR — UCOBAC's Frances Birungi Odong explains how women in Uganda are more impacted by climate change than men, which is why securing women’s land rights has become critical in the war against climate change.