Gender and land rights in changing global contexts

Gender and Land Rights in Changing Global Contexts brings together gendered analyses of women’s land rights through academic and practice-led engagements across different countries. It draws out key issues that emerge from experience of law and policies at both the global and local levels, and shape women’s land rights within the particular arenas and jurisdictions addressed in the chapters. Existing commitments to secure women’s equal land rights at international levels, as well as within national laws, policies and administrative processes are evaluated in the specific contexts of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Burundi, India, Myanmar, Rwanda and Uganda. The authors bring a range of disciplinary perspectives to argue the importance of local, grounded strategies to develop and sustain the focus on women’s equal land rights as central to gender equality, sustainable development, post-conflict reconstruction and women’s empowerment.