Braided Justice: Gender Transformative Approaches to Legal Empowerment for Land, Environmental, and Climate Justice

This publication explores how legal empowerment work can account for gender and power dynamics when advancing land, environmental, and climate (LEC) justice. The strategies and stories within are drawn from a learning exchange that brought together 15 organizations — all members of the Grassroots Justice Network. The publication presents challenges related to indiviudal property ownership including the the omission of women from tenure documentation and discriminatoring inheritence practices; unfair practices within communal land ownership stemming from patriachal norms; and land grabs that disproportionately affect women. The publication brings together various approaches to assessing land rights from a gender perspective and taking steps to protect land rights including; strengthening local land governance, negotiating equitable terms of investment, and preventing violations of agreements.