Her rights.
Her land.
A better future
for all.
Help make land rights a reality for
millions of women around the world.
Valentina Ángeles stands in front of the home she helped build with Habitat for Humanity in Hidalgo, Mexico. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Jason Asteros
Why do women’s rights to land matter?
Land is the foundation for shelter, livelihood, and climate resilience. Land is fundamental for survival.
Because land is central to power and identity, control over land is fundamental to gender justice. But despite enormous recent progress to ensure women’s equal legal rights to land and housing, we are still far from achieving equality in practice.
We cannot achieve gender equality without women’s equal rights to and control over the world’s most elemental resources: land and property. Women’s land rights are fundamental human rights.
About the Campaign
The Stand for Her Land Campaign is closing the implementation gap for women’s land rights: the gulf between the strong standards in place to protect women’s rights to land, and the realization of those rights in practice, so that millions of women can realize the transformational power of rights to land. Whether her home is a small farm in Uganda, the coastal regions of Colombia, or an informal settlement in New Delhi, India, every woman deserves firm ground to stand on.
Women cannot be owned as property, but land as property can be owned by women.
What’s New
E7: Land for Equity
Food4Transformation — Beth Roberts, Landesa's lead for the Stand for Her Land Campaign, was interviewed in Food4Transformation's latest podcast episode about access to land, financial services, and gender equality.
Hundreds Attend Women In Agrifood Systems Gathering
HARVEST MONEY — S4HL Uganda helped organize a conference on critical issues affecting women in agrifood systems. Participants included women in agribusiness, representatives from government ministries and departments, agencies, the private sector, financial institutions, academia, non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations.
Emergence of a Change Maker: Monira Begum, paralegal of Faridpur
Watch a new video about Monira Begum and other community women and men in Bangladesh who were trained as paralegals on women’s land rights and social norms change. They now work together to support other community women who are facing land-related difficulties and access to government support systems.
Women’s Land Rights in Farming Need Further Recognition
IPS NEWS — "Land is pre-conditional to gender equality and sustainable development.” S4HL's Esther Mwaura-Muiru was quoted during the CSW68 session on Women’s Resource Rights to Advance Gender Equality, Poverty Alleviation, and Food Security in Agriculture hosted by IFAD and the Government of Canada.
S4HL is a WLR Commitment Maker
Stand for Her Land is a proud member of the Generation Equality Feminist Action for Climate Justice (FACJ) Action Coalition, where we are joined by an inspiring group of organizations working toward gender and climate justice. We’re excited to be one of the featured “55 Stories of Change” that FACJ released at UN CSW68 on Monday, March 18.