This is the second edition of Realizing Women’s Rights to Land and Other Productive Resources, a joint publication of UN Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). The purpose of this updated edition is to provide guidance for lawmakers and policymakers, as well as civil society organizations and other stakeholders, to support the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies and programmes to respect, protect and fulfil women’s rights to land and other productive resources, with information updated through mid-2019. In particular, the second edition clarifies how women’s rights to land and other productive resources are relevant to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The 2030 Agenda is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights standards deriving from the Declaration and other international human rights treaties. The efforts to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide important opportunities to advance women’s rights to land and other productive resources.

Realizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources

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Document Type: Report

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  • OHCHR
  • UN Women

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Place: Geneva

Institution: United Nations (OHCHR and UN Women)

Date: 2020

Language: en

This is the second edition of Realizing Women’s Rights to Land and Other Productive Resources, a joint publication of UN Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). The purpose of this updated edition is to provide guidance for lawmakers and policymakers, as well as civil society organizations and other stakeholders, to support the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies and programmes to respect, protect and fulfil women’s rights to land and other productive resources, with information updated through mid-2019. In particular, the second edition clarifies how women’s rights to land and other productive resources are relevant to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The 2030 Agenda is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights standards deriving from the Declaration and other international human rights treaties. The efforts to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide important opportunities to advance women’s rights to land and other productive resources.

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