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Equal land rights for women worldwide

08. March 2011 rural areas is one of the most important ways to realize the right to food for themselves and their families. Discriminatory practices have the marginalization of women - especially when it comes to access to resources such as land, water or seeds - increased enormously. Not surprisingly, therefore, that women constitute the hunger and malnutrition in the most affected group in the world. access to land represents for women in rural areas is a prerequisite for a decent living, as the case of the Women's Movement June 10th "shows on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. Back in 2001, the Women's group occupied unused land to cultivate for their own livelihood. Since then, the women's group calls on the Government to transfer the former to the National University of Honduras owned piece of land. After years of struggle, the displacement and the resistance of the group of property titles for February 2011 was in prospect. Now claims the agricultural authority that imposed according to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, the country could not be transferred. However, this court decision does not necessarily hinder the transfer of title to land. The women have decided once again to be proactive. As a fact-finding mission (with FIAN International, Hondurian Center for Women's Rights, etc.) the group of women visited a few days ago, she was asked to support their push to publicly and to make known internationally. "The struggle of women for equal rights on land has become an example for the peasant movement in Honduras and throughout Central America has become. It only takes that one step more for the ultimate success. Then the women on their land on the 10th Anniversary celebration, "says Martin Wolpold-Bosien, Central America expert at FIAN International. Blanca Portillo, one of the activists of the Women's Movement June 10th in Honduras stressed at the meeting with the finding mission: "Our fight our rights are applied to land, our right to food - for our future and the future of our children."
"It is clearly high time that women in rural areas, key actors are as rights holders must be involved on an equal footing when it comes to negotiations and policy decisions on rural development and agricultural policy, "said Martin Wolpold-Bosien Contact:.. Martin Wolpold-Bosien, Wolpold-Bosien fian (at) . org; Mobile: 0177-3391263