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Her Land, Her Life: The Voice of Pastoralist Women in Karamoja

Pastoralist leader Anna Lomoyang highlights how women sustain livelihoods in Uganda’s Karamoja region while lacking secure land rights, calling for inclusion, economic empowerment, and stronger protections to build resilient communities.

Women’s Economic Empowerment: Land, Livelihoods, and Leadership Systems Change for Women’s Economic Empowerment with Julia Quinn

AVPN — At a convening in Colombo, Bridgerton author Julia Quinn underscored the importance of initiatives like Stand for Her Land, and why women’s land rights remain such a critical — yet often overlooked — lever for advancing economic empowerment.

NEW: S4HL Global Strategy for 2026-2030 [ EN | ES | FR ]

We present this 2026-2030 strategy as a bold and ambitious vision to further catalyze the WLR movement and achieve our collective goals of implementing WLR in practice.

Women to Kilimanjaro: The campaign that transformed Africa

Oxfam Africa — This article celebrates the 10-year impact of the Women to Kilimanjaro campaign, which mobilized hundreds of rural women farmers across Africa to demand equal land rights and helped drive more than a dozen policy and governance reforms across the continent. This grassroots movement continues to influence national land policies, expand women’s participation in local decision-making, and strengthen advocacy for secure land rights today.

“Now, It’s My Land”: Legal Reform Transforms Women’s Ownership in Rural Ethiopia

The Reporter – S4HL Ethiopia organized an advocacy forum to spotlight how the country’s revised Rural Land Proclamation is reshaping women’s land rights. The article highlights stories like Workenesh Bulbula’s and underscores the coalition’s role in pushing for stronger awareness, enforcement, and gender-equitable implementation of the law across regions.

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Leveraging Religious Norms to Strengthen Women’s Land Rights: Lessons from work in the Somali Cluster and Ethiopia

  • Wednesday, May 28, 2025
  • 6-7:30am Pacific Time / 4-5:30pm East Africa Time
  • Session is in English with Arabic translation
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SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVATION

#Land4OurFuture: Advocating for Land Rights and Climate Resilience

June 2-17, 2025

Join Stand for Her Land and the UNCCD Youth Caucus for #Land4OurFuture, a two-week social media activation spotlighting youth and grassroots women as advocates for land rights, restoration, and drought resilience—key solutions to climate change, gender inequality, and sustainable development.

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