Her rights.
Her land.
A better future
for all.
Help make land rights a reality for
millions of women around the world.
The Women’s Land Rights (WLR) Platform is an inclusive space for women across the world to share and document their experiences and perspectives around land rights.
We aim to use storytelling as an impactful tool for advocacy and movement building, while also mapping organizations across the world who are working in various sectors that intersect the WLR movement.
Joyce Taali
Barbara Mwagale
Muhammed Babyesiza
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 Initiative
The Stand for Her Land Initiative 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
When the Funding Ends, the Partnership Doesn’t: Reflections from Bangladesh
This reflection piece examines what happens when donor funding ends but community leadership, local relationships, and the push for women’s land rights continue moving forward.
Activists demand action as women face land rights violations
Eye Radio — Activists, lawmakers, and civil society leaders gathered for the launch of the S4HL South Sudan coalition in Juba, collectively calling for stronger women’s land and inheritance rights in South Sudan. Photo credit: Michael Daniel/Eye Radio
At GLF Nairobi, Women Leaders Call for Action Beyond Promises
Climate Lens News — Reporting from the Global Landscapes Forum in Nairobi, the article highlights how grassroots women leaders and the Stand for Her Land campaign are advancing women’s land rights, climate resilience, and food systems governance across Africa.
Her Land, Her Life: The Voice of Pastoralist Women in Karamoja
Pastoralist leader Anna Lomoyang highlights how women sustain livelihoods in Uganda’s Karamoja region while lacking secure land rights, calling for inclusion, economic empowerment, and stronger protections to build resilient communities.
Women’s Economic Empowerment: Land, Livelihoods, and Leadership Systems Change for Women’s Economic Empowerment with Julia Quinn
AVPN — At a convening in Colombo, Bridgerton author Julia Quinn underscored the importance of initiatives like Stand for Her Land, and why women’s land rights remain such a critical — yet often overlooked — lever for advancing economic empowerment.