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.
African women land professionals kick against gender disparity in land ownership, management
News Agency of Nigeria — At the First African Women Land Professionals Associations Conference in Tanzania, land experts called for policy reforms to eliminate gender disparity and boost women’s leadership in land management. The event also launched a new network to coordinate action on women’s land rights across Africa.
‘Unresolved land conflicts burden women’
New Vision — Unresolved land conflicts in Uganda continue to displace communities and violate women's rights. At a recent press conference, Stand for Her Land and partners highlighted the urgent need to secure women’s land rights, emphasizing their role in agriculture and economic stability.
Women activists demand action on land rights amid rising evictions
Monitor Uganda — As Uganda marks International Women’s Day, women's land rights activists urge the government to tackle increasing land grabbing, evictions, and disputes that disproportionately affect women, particularly in rural areas. “These conflicts have led to deaths, disrupted social cohesion, and undermined economic stability.”
Activists have opposed a provision in the Marriage Bill
Bukedde — Stand for Her Land Uganda urged Parliament to reject a provision in the Marriage Bill 2024 requiring spouses to share responsibility for each other’s debts. S4HL’s Mwebe Kalibala emphasized the need for fair asset division based on individual contributions, noting the growing financial independence of women.
‘Define sharable matrimonial and individual property in Bill’
Parliament of Uganda — S4HL Uganda urged Parliament to uphold the Supreme Court’s ruling on matrimonial property while reviewing the 2024 Marriage Bill. The coalition emphasized recognizing both financial and non-financial spousal contributions in property division and called for protections for women in customary marriages.
Access to land: Women put to the test by customs and traditions
Sunuker FM — CICODEV and S4HL Senegal are profiled for their investment in grassroots women's leadership to catalyze a strong and robust movement for women's land rights.
Generation Equality Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights Leaders convene in Kenya
UN Women Africa — Stand for Her Land's Esther Mwaura-Muiru emphasized the need to amplify local stories and solutions at the EJR retreat to help define pathways for advancing the Action Coalition’s work on gender-transformative economies in the years ahead.
Land Rights and Equitable Climate Finance: Missing Strategies in Corporate Sustainability
SustainabilityX — S4HL was highlighted as a network that corporations and private sector alliances can partner with to adopt policies that prioritize tenure rights, community-land management, and more equitable finance flows.
Widows left homeless as land grabbers take her land in Tororo, Butaleja
Monitor Uganda — In Tororo and Butaleja districts, widows face rising cases of land grabbing, often losing their homes after the death of a spouse. UCOBAC, S4HL Uganda coalition lead, organized a series of community dialogues to raise awareness and accountability on land governance to protect women’s rights.