Women’s rights to forests and land remain weak in much of the Global South

Mongabay
Mar 21, 2025, 5:14 pm246 ptsTrendingTop
A new report by the NGO Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) reviewed national laws and regulations across 35 countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa. It found that since RRI’s 2017 assessment, there’s been little progress in securing women’s rights to forests in Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and…

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