Women’s Rights to Community Forests – Indigenous & Rural Women – Analysis
Author: WUNRN
Date: July 16, 2017
POWER & POTENTIAL: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL LAWS & REGULATIONS CONCERNING WOMEN’S RIGHTS TO COMMUNITY FORESTS
Direct Link to Full 98-Page 2017 Report: http://rightsandresources.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Power_and_Potential_Final_EN_May_2017_RRI-1.pdf
Equal rights and opportunities for women are not only matters of justice and dignity. When women and girls have equal rights in law and practice, their communities and countries also benefit. Indigenous and rural women make up more than half of the 2.5 billion people who customarily own and use the world’s community lands, yet they have been largely absent from discussions of women’s property rights and broader development agendas.
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