Gender Considerations and Approaches: Property Rights

Gender-based Violence and Biodiversity: A briefing note on linkages to inform the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework process

This Briefing Note reviews key evidence on GBV and biodiversity linkages and suggests priority recommendations that decision-makers at all levels can consider for realising robust gender-responsive action in biodiversity policies and action.

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Security for Me and My Own: Land Demarcation and Preventing Gender-Based Violence in Uganda

In eastern Uganda, where land is governed by a customary land tenure system, women experience violence when claiming land rights. Trocaire is working with the Land Equity Movement of Uganda (LEMU) and Soroti Catholic Diocese Integrated Development Organization (SOCADIDO) to respond to these challenges.

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A Place to Call Her Own: Land titling and gender-based violence in South Kivu, DRC

In South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Women for Women International and the Innovation and Training for Development and Peace are working together to gather the perspectives of 138 women, as well as male and female focus groups to change land rights norms.

Web Story

Liens entre la violence basée sur le genre et l’environnement : la violence des inégalités

Cette publication établit que ces modèles de VBG sont observés dans tous les contextes environnementaux, affectant la sécurité et le bien-être des nations, des communautés et des individus, et compromettant la réalisation des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD). Bien que les liens entre VBG et questions environnementales soient complexes et se produisent à de multiples échelles, ces menaces aux droits humains et à la santé des écosystèmes ne sont pas insurmontables.

Report

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor

First report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor. She presents her priorities and working methods and offers a brief overview of her activities in the first weeks since she took up her role. She describes the change in working methods for herself, and for human rights defenders more generally, in the immediate term brought about by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Report

AGENT Webinar: Gender Based-Violence and Environment Linkages – Key Issues and Strategies for Change

In this video, IUCN, USAID, and other partners presenting AGENT research and key findings on linkages related to the access and control of land and natural resources, environmental pressures and threats and strategies for safeguards.

Webinar

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Academic article on property grabbing, a new form of gender-based violence (GBV) that is threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa.

Academic paper

Toward freedom from domestic violence: The neglected obvious

Academic article on the correlation between women’s property status and the risk of marital violence in India. Initial findings suggest that women’s ownership of immovable property, such as land or a house, provides economic and physical security, enhances self-esteem and well-being and significantly reduces the risk of marital violence.

Academic paper

Control and ownership of assets: A means for increasing gender equality and empowerment of rural women

Background paper that explores the evidence on women’s asset ownership and the factors associated with it. It discusses the relationship between women’s asset ownership and their well-being, including their decision-making power and intimate partner violence. It reviews laws and programmes that have been introduced to improve women’s asset ownership, the challenges that have emerged, and the possibilities for creating enabling environments for increased control and ownership of assets by rural women.

Report

Realizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources

Report

Gender Considerations and Approaches: Property Rights

Gender-based Violence and Biodiversity: A briefing note on linkages to inform the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework process

Security for Me and My Own: Land Demarcation and Preventing Gender-Based Violence in Uganda

A Place to Call Her Own: Land titling and gender-based violence in South Kivu, DRC

Liens entre la violence basée sur le genre et l’environnement : la violence des inégalités

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor

AGENT Webinar: Gender Based-Violence and Environment Linkages – Key Issues and Strategies for Change

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Toward freedom from domestic violence: The neglected obvious

Control and ownership of assets: A means for increasing gender equality and empowerment of rural women

Realizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources

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