Land rights Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Land, Peace and Security: Secure access to land as a vital guarantee for the protection of communities in the Sahel

26/05/2025

2 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The lack of secure access to land is a major driver of physical and food insecurity, violence, and violations of the fundamental rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their host communities. This briefing paper outlines the causes and consequences of restricted land access and explores its links with protection risks in the context of […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

08/05/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

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This is the introduction to the Special Issue on 'Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.

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Journal article

Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling gender equality with tradition in Northern Uganda

08/05/2025

28 pages long

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Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling gender equality with tradition in Northern Uganda

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The Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda faces a tension in its post-conflict period: reconciling local peacebuilding approaches with national and international standards of gender equality. Women’s land rights lie at the heart of this struggle, with local practices of land management and dispute resolution frequently privileging men over women, conflicting with national statutes that promise […]

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Journal article

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

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She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

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Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

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Issue briefing

Unheard Water Stories from Asia, Africa and MENA: Elevating local voices for water security in a climate insecure world

20/11/2024

3 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This paper shares stories from six countries—Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Somalia, Syria, and Iraq—highlighting the challenges communities face in accessing water. It seeks to bring forward the unique perspectives of communities from diverse backgrounds, each experiencing water crises in distinct ways. While climate change intensifies their crises, many communities also face marginalization due to exclusionary water […]

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Briefing paper

A Toxic Legacy: Glencore’s Footprint in Colombia and Peru: European banks and investors must take responsibility

16/11/2023

6 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Glencore’s business model continues to have severe consequences for local communities and the environment. Several scandals have provided evidence of Glencore’s involvement in human rights violations, corruption, tax avoidance and environmental destruction. Glencore’s mines have had devastating impacts on their surrounding environments, with grave consequences for the communities living beside them. This report elaborates on […]

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Issue briefing

Loss and Damage to Land: Voices from Asia

29/06/2023

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives. The stories demonstrate that land ownership is a key factor in determining people’s eligibility to receive assistance to overcome loss and damage. […]

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Journal article

Indigenous land rights in Brazil and the women defending them: an encounter with activist Valdelice Veron

23/05/2023

4 pages long

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Indigenous land rights in Brazil and the women defending them: an encounter with activist Valdelice Veron

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This is short piece situates an interaction with Valdelice Veron within the larger context of indigenous land rights in Brazil. Valdelice, who belongs to the Indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá community, spoke about the persecution of her community and their struggle for land rights. The authors bring Valdelice's experiences to the reader and call on the feminist academic practitioners "to act […]

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Journal article

Edilia Mendoza Roa, una mujer que lucha por el derecho a la tierra, Colombia / Edilia Mendoza Roa, a woman who fights for land rights, Colombia

23/05/2023

4 pages long

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Edilia Mendoza Roa, una mujer que lucha por el derecho a la tierra, Colombia / Edilia Mendoza Roa, a woman who fights for land rights, Colombia

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This is a tribute to Edilia Mendoza Roa, an activist and one of Colombia's best known agrarian experts, who passed away in February, 2023. The authors discuss her contributions to the struggle for land and environmental rights and her involvement in formulation of laws and resolutations leading to agrarian reform and rural development for farmers and […]

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Journal article

Cristina Bautista, colombiana e indígena, lideresa social y tejedora de pensamiento y comunidad / Cristina Bautista, a Colombian and indigenous social leader, community thinker, and weaver of thoughts

23/05/2023

4 pages long

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Cristina Bautista, colombiana e indígena, lideresa social y tejedora de pensamiento y comunidad / Cristina Bautista, a Colombian and indigenous social leader, community thinker, and weaver of thoughts

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This is a tribute to activist, Cristina Bautista in Colombia. She was an indigenous woman working on the rights of women in her community and on land rights. The author traces Cristina's life and the Hilando pensamientos (Weaving Thoughts), the Nasa women's movement. Her activism was powerful, and Cristina was killed in 2019 by armed actors.

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