{"id":66738,"date":"2024-09-14T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/14\/we-cant-even-buy-our-own-land-the-tongan-women-pushing-for-change"},"modified":"2024-09-14T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:00:07","slug":"we-cant-even-buy-our-own-land-the-tongan-women-pushing-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66738","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can\u2019t even buy our own land\u2019: the Tongan women pushing for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women are only permitted to lease land in the Pacific country as advocacy groups call for reform to the system<\/p>\n<p>Ofa Ki Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki was attending a workshop on gender issues in Tonga many years ago when she came to a striking realisation: \u201cIf my father dies everything in our house, from the land to belongings, will automatically transfer to my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old went straight to her dad and said \u201cif you die, I will inherit nothing. He looked at me with nothing to say, and I told him that it was really unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/14\/we-cant-even-buy-our-own-land-the-tongan-women-pushing-for-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women are only permitted to lease land in the Pacific country as advocacy groups call for reform to the systemOfa Ki Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki was attending a workshop on gender issues in Tonga many years ago when she came to a striking realisation: \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,280,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66739,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66738\/revisions\/66739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}