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Mujeres en el mundo rural

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2011
South America
Colombia

   * Sergio Andrés Coronado Delgado Los procesos de emancipación de las mujeres requieren, además de la superación de las condiciones de exclusión social y discriminación que cotidianamente deben enfrentar, la plena garantía de sus derechos humanos integrales y, para el caso de las mujeres rurales, el gobierno y control del bien más importante y sobre el cual construyen y realizan sus proyectos de vida: la tierra.

Land Reform in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Connecting Sustainable Livelihoods and Peace building

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2011
Rwanda

The world today faces a wide range of critically important issues, whose resolution require inter- national collaboration of various stakeholders. Environmental conservation and conflict resolution are such examples. Interestingly enough, these two issues have been until very recently conceptual- ized as separate problems, and coordinated resolution came to be pursued only recently. This paper attempts to connect these two critical agendas by using the case study of land issues in Rwanda in Africa.

Women’s Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction

Reports & Research
January, 1998
Rwanda

Women constitute the majority of small farmers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, in countries around the world, they continue to be denied the right to own the ground that they cultivate and on which they raise their families. This publication, “Women’s Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction,” presents a diversity of views and experiences that describe the multiple strategies being used in countries worldwide to secure women's rights to land and property.