Calendar of Events

About the event :

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are convening an expert group meeting on good practices and lessons learned in realizing women’s rights to productive resources, with a focus on land, to be held at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at Geneva, Switzerland, from 25 to 27 June 2012.

The meeting will focus on legislative and policy reforms and other initiatives to realize women’s rights to productive resources, in particular land, as well as on going challenges and ways to address those challenges.

Related  Documents:

Background papers

• Aide Memoire

• Good Practices in Realizing Women’s Rights to Productive Resources, with a Focus on Land  |  Presentation  by Mayra Gomez, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Women’s Human Rights related to access, use and control over land and other productive resources   by OHCHR & UN Women

Expert papers and presentations

• Ms. Patricia Chaves*
  Espaço Feminista, Brazil
  1. Women’s land rights in Brazil: good practices and lessons from the case of Ponte do Maduro
  2. Presentation

• Ms. Sandra Ka Hon Chu
  Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Canada
  Respect, protect and fulfill: legislating for women’s marital property rights in the context of HIV

• Sagipa Djusaeva
  Former programme specialist, UN Women, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Office, Kyrgyzstan
  1. Promoting rural women’s rights to land: UN Women programme experience in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
  2. Presentation

• Elizabeth Garcia
  DECIDE Studies Corporation, Ecuador
  1. Ecuadorian women’s goals and challenges to enjoy the right to land
  2. Presentation

• Catherine Gatundu
  ActionAid, Kenya
  1. Good practices and lessons learned in the realization of women’s rights to land as a productive resource: a focus on Kenya
  2. Presentation

• Shyamala Gomez
  FOKUS Women, Sri Lanka
  Best Practices on Women and Access to Land: Case Study on Sri Lanka

• Amal Haddadin
  Jordanian National Commission for Women, Jordan
  1. Good practices and lessons learned in realizing women’s right to productive resources: The case of Jordan
  2. Presentation

• Dianne Hubbard
  Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia
  1. Law reforms which promote women’s rights to land and property: developments and proposals in Namibia 
  2. Presentation

• Celeste McKay
  Celeste McKay Consulting, Canada
  Good practices in realizing women’s rights to productive resources, with a focus on land: the case of indigenous women with examples from Canada

• Donny Meertens
  Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
  Colombia’s law on victims and restitution:
  a challenge for gender-sensitive transitional justice

• Rowshan Jahan Moni
  Association for Land Reform and Development, Bangladesh
  1. Women’s access and effective control over land in Asia: hurdles to overcome
  2. Presentation

• Manuel F. Montes
  The South Centre, Switzerland
  Women’s access to land and productive resources

• Anna Naupa
  Vanuatu
  Making change happen: How and where to realize women’s land rights in Vanuatu

• Thierry Hoza Ngoga*
  Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Rwanda
  1. Empowering women through land tenure reform: The Rwandan experience
  2. Presentation

• Frances Raday
  Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice

• Nitya Rao
  University of East Anglia, UK
  1. Good practices in realizing women’s rights to productive resources, with a focus on land: The case of India
  2. Presentation

• Margaret A. Rugadya
  Ford Foundation, Uganda
  1. Women’s rights to productive assets – land: lessons learnt from Uganda
  2. Presentation

• Emelita P. Salamanca
  Grassroots Women Empowerment Center, Philippines
  1. Good practice in realizing women’s rights to productive resources, with a focus on land in the Philippines
  2. Presentation

• Elisa Scalise
  Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights
  1. Women’s land rights in the context of land tenure reform: legal considerations
  2. Presentation

• Xiaobei Wang
  Landesa China
  1. Rural women’s land rights in China
  2. Presentation

• Asyl Undeland
  Rural Development Fund, Kyrgyzstan
  Lessons learned and good practices in realizing women’s rights to productive resources with a focus on land: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

• Mayra Gómez
  1. Presentation: Good Practices in Realizing Women’s Rights to Productive Resources, with a Focus on Land

* indicates that presenters were unable to attend the Expert Group meeting in Geneva