How Landesa and Stand for Her Land are Growing Futures Through Women’s Land Rights

By Claire O’Donnell, Together Women Rise Transformation Partnerships Writer 

Long before the concept of “conservation” existed, women were doing the work. Tending to fields and forests. Reading the soil and the seasons. Rural and Indigenous women have always been among the earth’s original caretakers. Today, they remain on the frontlines, restoring degraded land, protecting biodiversity, and growing more than half the world’s food.  

And yet, the land they tend rarely belongs to them.  

Only 23% of countries have laws granting women and men equal land rights, and even in those where laws exist on paper, centuries of discriminatory norms leave millions of women with rights they cannot access and land they cannot claim.   Details

How The Fuller Project is catalyzing gender equality through storytelling

By Claire O’Donnell, Together Women Rise Transformation Partnerships Writer

Women make up half of the world and yet, only 0.02% of global news coverage focuses on issues that disproportionately affect women. If the world’s news were a year, these issues would get less than eighteen hours of it. If it were a globe, the coverage of issues disproportionately affecting women would fit entirely on Fiji.

This is not an accidental oversight. It is a portrait of whose stories our society has decided matter. The stories a culture tells are not merely a reflection of its values, they are also the mechanisms by which those values are shaped, generation after generation. When half of humanity is condensed to a footnote, that absence is reflected in legislation, healthcare, policy, courtrooms and the daily realities of women everywhere. Details