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Stronger women stronger cities: UN-Habitat’s action for change 2020 – 2025
This publication presents a summary of UN-Habitat’s gender equality impact over the past five years, in line with the Beijing reporting cycle.
The International Land Coalition (ILC) seeks to secure equitable access to land and resources for the rural poor through advocacy, knowledge management, networking, capacity building, and dialogue. Indigenous peoples comprise more than 370 million people worldwide. It is estimated that they constitute approximately 5% of the world's population, but make up 15% of the world's poor and about one-third of the world's 900 million extremely poor rural people (DESA, 2009: 21). Indigenous peoples have strong spiritual, cultural, social and economic relationship with their traditional lands, but their land rights are often the most precarious.
This publication presents a summary of UN-Habitat’s gender equality impact over the past five years, in line with the Beijing reporting cycle.
GLTN’s institutional commitment to gender equality and secure land rights for women and girls has been at the core of its work since inception in 2006.
This FIG Nepal CALL TO ACTION on Climate Responsible Land Governance and Disaster Resilience underscores the imperative for land professionals to act in a climate responsive way.