Land Rights: One Key to Women's Economic Empowerment
Category: POLITICS
When women own land, we are better off. In 2005, after conducting case studies in Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ghana and the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the World Bank concluded that having a protected right to land can increase women's access to food, water and safety.
By Anika Rahman, ContributorNon-Profit Leader for Human Rights and Catalyst for Change, 2015-04-13