Global Land Alliance celebrates International Women’s Day 2025

When women face barriers to accessing, using or controlling land and other resources around the world, it not only puts them on an unequal footing in life, but it also restricts wider positive social, economic and environmental outcomes. 

Embedded across our work, GLA upholds guiding principles of community engagement to promote gender inclusive, gender equitable and transparent governance practices. Global Land Alliance continues to uphold Gender Equity and Social Inclusion principles as a foundation for enabling sustainable prosperity for people and places.

Laura Bermudez, social inclusion and public consultation specialist with Global Land Alliance, reflects on some of the latest political-cultural trends affecting advancements in gender equality:

"As a gender and social inclusion specialist I am saddened by the cultural backlash against equality-based initiatives that is taking place in the United States. Clearly, we need to improve our messaging to the broader American public: Women's inequality is still palpable today in the global north as well as the global south. Addressing this inequality is a matter of social justice. Although women's status in the global north has come a long way, significant gaps still remain (political representation, pay gap, unconscious bias, Gender Based Violence, reproductive choices, among many others). Women's status in the global south presents an even bigger challenge (access to basic education, right to work outside the home, child marriage, genital mutilation, right to land and property, among so many others!)

The work to elevate women's status and empowerment across the globe must continue to be a pillar for the advancement of all societies."

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