Show your support to the women at Mt. Kilimanjaro demanding their rights to land.
Imagine being a typist without a typewriter, a photographer without a camera, a driver without a car. Women are toiling the land, gathering firewood, water, producing and cooking the food; and yet in many cases are not masters of the land they farm.Climbing the mena hills in Makeni supporting women climbing the Kilimanjaro in support of land rights for women Africa #women2kilimanjaro pic.twitter.com/pEHhzZ9wNv
— Alice Nenneh James (@nennehalice1) October 3, 2016
Women across the world, rural African women in particular, don’t have secure access and control over land. This is important not just for producing food but in realising women’s human rights. Available information suggests that less than one quarter of agricultural land holdings in developing countries is in the hands of women.
Rural women across Africa are now mobilising to change policies, practices, attitudes, behaviours and institutions - to assert their rights. They are gathering momentum with 30 rural women climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, and over 250 women gathering at the foothills to complete their charter of demands. The charter will then be delivered to the African Union as well as their national governments to take into action.
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Show your support to the women at Mt. Kilimanjaro demanding their rights to land.
I stand with my African sisters to demand for their land rights #women2kilimanjaro pic.twitter.com/H8gIaKjpnj
— Boramey (@borameyaac) October 6, 2016
The initiative is currently supported by various Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) including ActionAid, PROPAC, OXFAM, International Land Coalition (ILC), Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Tanzania Gender Networking Program (TGNP) and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) CNC Non actors and Intrepid travel.
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