Women Owning Land
- All
- News
- Videos
-
Boy Smiles As Mother Makes Him Play Dress-Up, Then Family Dies By Suicide
Kavita dressed her son, Ramdev, in women's clothing, placed a dupatta on his head, applied kajal to his eyes, and put her own gold jewellery on him. Then her entire family - husband, herself, Ramdev and her other son - jumped into a water tank.
-
After Wife Rabri Devi's Controversy, Lalu Yadav Tweets Wish List For Bahus
Rabri Devi was a Twitter trend today after she said she is looking for wives for her two sons who are ministers in Bihar. Mall-going women are out the running, she said. Curious since the sons in question own a two-acre plot of land on the outskirts of Patna that was being developed as Bihar's largest mall till the centre last month stopped constru...
-
Women Farmers Battle Tradition, Self-doubt To Own Land In Uttar Pradesh
By Rina Chandran Taardeh, Uttar Pradesh: Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in Uttar Pradesh. But she has never owned land – a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community’s rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should ...
-
Poverty, Child Marriage, Violence Decline When Women Own Land: World Bank
Can land rights for women drive down child marriage and domestic violence? "Yes and more", says an international group of land and property rights specialists who are due in Washington this week to discuss how improved land management can reduce global poverty and foster development.
-
Boy Smiles As Mother Makes Him Play Dress-Up, Then Family Dies By Suicide
Kavita dressed her son, Ramdev, in women's clothing, placed a dupatta on his head, applied kajal to his eyes, and put her own gold jewellery on him. Then her entire family - husband, herself, Ramdev and her other son - jumped into a water tank.
-
After Wife Rabri Devi's Controversy, Lalu Yadav Tweets Wish List For Bahus
Rabri Devi was a Twitter trend today after she said she is looking for wives for her two sons who are ministers in Bihar. Mall-going women are out the running, she said. Curious since the sons in question own a two-acre plot of land on the outskirts of Patna that was being developed as Bihar's largest mall till the centre last month stopped constru...
-
Women Farmers Battle Tradition, Self-doubt To Own Land In Uttar Pradesh
By Rina Chandran Taardeh, Uttar Pradesh: Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in Uttar Pradesh. But she has never owned land – a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community’s rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should ...
-
Poverty, Child Marriage, Violence Decline When Women Own Land: World Bank
Can land rights for women drive down child marriage and domestic violence? "Yes and more", says an international group of land and property rights specialists who are due in Washington this week to discuss how improved land management can reduce global poverty and foster development.
