New Law a Glimmer of Hope for Women's Land Rights in Mali

Wearing a long white tunic covered with bright-colored patterns, Aminata Berthe bends to water a plot of lettuce with a can in this village near Bamako, the Malian capital. "I'm the first one in my home to wake up and the last to go to bed," she said, pausing to catch her breath. She has been farming the land for three years as part of a women's vegetable cooperative, but doesn't have the right to own it. "The land we're farming belongs to the husband of...

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