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Women activists call for reforms in land management

Nation Media Group — S4HL Uganda and its coalition members organized a two-day workshop to urge the government to implement reforms in land management to better protect women’s rights to land.

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.

Promoting women’s land rights could stem tobacco growing

Monitor — Rita Kemigisa was interviewed about S4HL Uganda's work on gender transformative approaches at the community level and their advocacy for gender responsive land services at the national level.

Inheritance practices still hindering women’s land rights

Monitor — S4HL Uganda is identifying and transforming harmful patriarchal norms that lock women and girls out of owning, inheriting, and making decisions on land.

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