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LATEST NEWS

Land Tenure: A Cross-Cutting Solution for Poverty, Climate Change, and Women’s Rights

The S4HL Campaign is profiled in a Skoll article for its work at the global and grassroots levels to increase awareness, generate resources, build capacity, and change mindsets about the relationship between women and land. 

Stakeholders want government to ‘stand for land campaign’

IPP Media profiled a meeting between land experts, academicians and other stakeholders to ensure women and smallholder producers benefit from foreign and local land-based investments in Tanzania.

Statement: We repudiate the femicide of Eva Amaya

We renounce the femicide of our colleague and friend Eva Amaya in the municipality of Santiago de Tolú in Colombia committed on September 9, 2022. Eva was a social leader, artisan at heart, chef by passion and economist by profession. She actively supported youth and women's organizations. She loved to dance.

“Bridge the gap” and deliver land rights to women, say campaigners

Lack of access to and control over land is causing widespread suffering for rural women in Uganda, and even for women who hold a Certificate of Customary Ownership, the clash between culture and modernity threatens hardship for millions.

Despite women saving and earning more than ever, the number achieving property ownership has stalled

An opinion piece on inews.co.uk mentions the S4HL Campaign's work on gender equality in land.

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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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#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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