Date: October 12th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Observer

A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women's Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International (GAI) with support from US based Rights and Resources Initiatives (RRI), unearthed how foreign direct investment deprives local women of the land rights that form the basis for their livelihoods and cultures despite promises of shared economic development.

By Zabihullah Noori

Date: October 11th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

In conservative Afghanistan, properties usually registered to men but there are plans to issue joint ownership rights to married couples

By: Sarah McColl

Date: October 7th 2016

Source: Take Part

Organizers of the Mt. Kilamanjaro ascent promise to take "the issues of rural women farmers to the top.”

By: Caroline Moser

Date: October 6th 2016

Source:  Next City

On  October 17, the Habitat III conference opens in Quito, Ecuador. Its primary objective is for UN member states to adopt the New Urban Agenda (NUA), reflect on the agreements reached, and elaborate on policy and planning processes for its implementation across the globe.

By: Lois Aduamoah – Addo, WiLDAF Ghana

Date: October 4th 2016

Source: GhanaWeb

Despite the range of legal provisions in Ghana emphasising equality of all persons before the law, there are still significant pieces of evidence to suggest that the rights of vulnerable groups including women are not fully protected when it comes to access and use of land as a productive asset.

By: Annie Gowen

Date: September 29th 2016

Source: The Washington Post

INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores.

By: Erin Handley

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Phnom Penh Post

By: Linda Nyondo
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Zambia Daily Mail

A GROUP of African women including Zambians are next month expected to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to advocate for women’s land rights.

Action Aid communications officer Hellen Mwale confirmed the development in a statement in Lusaka recently.

By: Vicki Gass

Date: September 20th 2016

Source: Oxfam America

Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.

By:Mu Sochua

Date:20 September 2016

Source: Borderless

Monday’ sentencing of four women land rights activists by a Phnom Penh Court does not bode well for the Cambodian government, which is already being closely eyed by the international community for its ongoing politically motivated crackdowns against critics and political opponents.

By: Luke Bisani

Date: 18 September 2016

Source: Malawi24

Women across Africa have been mobilised to call on leaders on the continent to address land rights issues as one way of achieving sustainable development.

The call comes at time when women in rural areas of Africa are seen as having no piece of land, a development that has brought hiccups on food production on the continent.

By: Kizito Makoye Shigela

Date: September 15th 2016

Source: In Depth News

VILABWA, Tanzania (IDN) - At a small village south of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, women rarely talk about land issues because customary norms keep them at bay. “We don’t have the voice, its men who decide everything,” said Saada Hassan a resident of Vilabwa.