GLA is proud to announce that Gabriela Rodrigues Eklund is joining our team as Technical Director.

In our 10th year of operations as an organization, Global Land Alliance is excited for this next phase of collaborations and learning with our growing alliance.
#Welcome

Today GLA's Executive Director Malcolm Childress is giving a keynote address at the International Land Management Conference
He will be discussing the key role that land administration for #climateaction in forest, agricultural and urban settings
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Today on #IWD2024 , GLA's Laura Bermudez reflects upon women's contributions to all spheres of life, our progress toward gender equality and the challenges ahead. 'I'm enormously proud to be part of this progress through my work on women's land rights at GLA.'

Today Malcolm Childress, GLA’s Executive Director and Audace K., Africa Regional Coordinator of ILCAfrica, signed a MoU to organizations’ longstanding mutual effort to advancing gaps in land data and dialogues in the Sub-Saharan Africa.
Read more here ⬇️
globallandalliance.org/gla-news/gla-a…

Another key step towards expanding collaborations for land governance data 🤝

ILC Africa and Global Land Alliance have signed an #MoU to advance land governance in Africa and position people at the centre of land data.

“The land left by the grandmothers and grandfathers of the Alto Tena community in Napo 🇪🇨is a legacy of incalculable value. Today the community is fighting for its ancestral territory, fragmented by the imposition of Protected Areas.”

👉 How do we grasp what is happening in #Palestine ?
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🚨 We've asked our partners in Palestine for recommended resources to educate ourselves on Palestine's history in the context of Israel's war on #Gaza .

Start with the QR code below.
#united4landrights

ICYMI check out the latest by taibat lawanson for Heinrich Böll Foundation - Abuja Office 'Lagos from its Margins: Land and insecurity in an African Megacity', which outlines the need for further research on the patterns, processes and implications of migration into Lagos hoa.boell.org/en/2023/08/18/…

International court rules against #Guatemala in a landmark #Indigenous and #environmental rights case apnews.com/article/346b0c…

At GLA we believe no one knows their land better than communities who live on it. When good governance bolsters local land tenure rights, it enables conditions for good stewardship.

Learn more about GLA's activities on the “Land Plus Climate” nexus #COP28
globallandalliance.org/gla-news/glas-…

“Trust Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to lead the transformation of food systems. Guarantee our land rights and respect our traditional knowledge. We will give back a world of seeds, color and flavours to nurture the body and spirit.”

– The words of Juan Carlos…

'One of the areas where women have been discriminated against and abused is when they are not given land,' Dr Monica Magoke-Mhoja on the #16DaysOfActivismAgainstGBV

She is calling upon governments to ensure women have access to land to reduce on cases of #GenderBasedViolence

#GBV

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Joint statement from
Amnesty International @minorityrights Survival International
===Kenya must cease evicting Ogiek from Mau Forest===
#EndFortressConservation

assets.survivalinternational.org/documents/2503…

We believe securing tenure rights for local communities is one of the most important ways we can be thinking about climate action around the world.
Learn more about how GLA has been supporting the land rights and climate nexus ⬇️
globallandalliance.org/gla-news/glas-…
#COP28

Statement on behalf of Indigenous Peoples Organizations at the Opening session of UN Climate Change #COP28
unfccc.int/cop28
#indigenousrights Intl Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change

In a new World Bank analysis 'Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Where do we Stand in Practice?” authors cite Prindex - lower levels of tenure insecurity exist when frameworks supporting implementation of laws to protect women are in place
documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…