In Brief: Women’s Land Rights and Tenure Security in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development locates land as central to poverty reduction and gender equality and to achieving all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Agenda’s prioritization of equal land access, use and control by women may be considered an important advance of the SDGs over the Millennium Development Goals.

This document outlines UN Women and key partners’ work in implementing interventions to address the diverse challenges women face globally in securing land rights as a means to realize relevant SDGs.