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Rural Women’s Assembly - Southern Africa
Discover how the Rural Women’s Assembly Southern Africa secured the 2026 Right Livelihood Award for championing gender equality, land rights, and food sovereignty.
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RURAL WOMEN’S ASSEMBLY (Southern Africa) - Guardians of Land, Life & Love
On September 30th 2026, the Rural Women’s Assembly was awarded the prestigious Right Livelihood Award for “organising rural women across Southern Africa into a united force defending land, seed and bodily autonomy against corporate and patriarchal dispossession.”
Better World Info proudly supports and congratulates the Rural Women’s Assembly for their tireless dedication to protecting land rights, supporting female landowners, fostering community care, and ensuring food security across nine countries in Southern Africa.
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- Mama Cash - Rural Women’s Assembly: Their livelihoods, whose land? 523978
- Movement gives African rural women farmers a voice, but still battles landownership - Mongabay 09.06.26 523977
- The Southern Africa Rural Women’s Assembly Seed Guardians - ISS Blog 24.03.26 523982
- Corporate impunity and seed sovereignty: Interview with the Rural Womens’ Assembly - Defending Peasants' Rights 23.12.25 523981
- Video: Lungisa Huna of the Rural Womens's Assembly - Both Ends 16.05.24 523987
- Rural Women’s Assembly: the movement empowering women farmers in Southern Africa - The Perspective 19.12.23 523980
- The rise of rural women’s movements in Southern Africa - Cultivate 30.10.20 524072
- Rural Women’s Assembly on Africa And The COVID-19 Pandemic - Southern Africa Trust 03.08.20 523988
- Rural Women Making a Difference - Zambia Action Aid 26.02.20 524071
- Southern Africa: Rural Women's Assembly - 10 years onAN Original - Alice News 17.02.20 524070
- A case study of the Southern African Rural Women's Assembly: We can bend stick - African Union, 2019 523983
- Rural Women's Assembly in Swaziland - CIDSE 05.10.16 524069
- Africa is not for sale! Rural women call for the AU to act on women’s rights - Karibu Foundation 523986