RRI’s flagship gender analysis, Resilience and Resistance, provided an updated assessment of women’s legally recognized rights to community forests across 35 countries as of 2024. The report examined legal reforms since 2016 and provided concrete evidence for IP, ADP, and LC women leaders to challenge discriminatory laws and advocate for stronger protections.
Sara Omi, a member of the Indigenous Ipeti Embera community in Panama, plants seedlings.
Photo: Asha Stuart. RRI, 2025
Launched at the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), the analysis identified actionable policy steps governments can take to advance the global women’s rights agenda. Also at CSW69, WiGSA members and Indigenous women leaders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America joined discussions linking legal evidence to lived experience, strengthening grassroots capacity to influence policy reforms.
Data from Resilience and Resistance also informed cross-regional peer learning, including exchanges between women leaders from Peru and Nepal to compare national legal frameworks and build transnational solidarity.
