Realizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources

November 2013
UN Women and OHCHR

Aims to provide detailed guidance to support the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies and programmes to protect women’s rights to land and other productive resources. Presents an overview of international and regional legal and policy instruments recognizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources, and discusses ways of advancing a human rights-based approach to them. Sets out recommendations in a range of areas accompanied by explanatory commentaries and good practice examples and case studies from countries. Hoped publication will be a useful tool for policy makers, civil society organizations and others in their efforts to realize women’s rights to land other productive resources.