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Mending the gap between law and practice: Organizational approaches for women’s property rights
Following a global scan of grassroots programmes that are mending the gap between law and practice, this study documents efforts by nongovernmental organizations and international non governmental organizations that are working on women’s property rights, and explores approaches that are addressing...
Murder in the Name of Honour

This book is a journalistic account of Rana Husseini’s journey from “a naive but enthusiastic and stubborn journalist to the campaigns to change Jordanian law, as well as (her) experiences in other countries in the Middle East, and investigations into so-called honour killings across Europe (...

Muslim Law and Adat Encounter: The experience of Indonesia
While much has been written about the relation between Islamic law and customary law in Muslim countries for the most part, the literature reflects the conflict approach. To date, this methodological framework persists as most western Islamicists continue to view the encounter between the two legal...
Muslim women and property rights

This paper examines the rights to property accorded to women in Islam under direct Quranic injunctions and compares it with the state of these rights in present Muslim societies. It argues that the correct application of Quranic laws will not only materially improve the status of women in Muslim...

Negotiating Islamic Property Rights in UN HABITAT: Policy Makers guide to Women’s Land, Property and Housing Rights Across the World

The author argues that nothing under Islamic law prohibits women from having equal access to property rights through an integrated and compensatory property rights regime. Under the integrated Islamic approach to women’s property rights, a woman’s reduced inheritance rights are theoretically...

New Issues in Refugee Research. Witchcraft Allegations, Refugee Protection and Human Rights: A Review of the Evidence

This paper examines the link between witchcraft accusations and displacement. Accusations may cause displacement through forced exile or the personal decision to flee from the threat of harm. Some of the numerous explanations for witchcraft accusations are introduced, before turning to the ways...

Niger Country Brief: property rights and Land markets

This country brief attempts to determine to what extent USAID’s programmes to improve land markets and property rights have contributed to secure tenure and lower transaction costs in developing countries thereby helping to achieve economic growth and sustainable development.

Niger: How dry wastelands and science are changing women’s lives in the Sahel
For most women in the Sahel, if the husband passes away his closest family or his male children inherit his possessions. If a woman starts a vegetable garden and it proves successful, the husband can expel his wife from the garden and take it over. Women are also denied the right to own croplands.
Niger: Rural Code.

This is an educational kit comprising 8 thematic papers, that is complementary to a film about the Lessons Learned from Niger’s Rural Code. The papers are meant to encourage viewers to look further into some of the topics that the film deals with, and provide practical data (facts and figures,...

Nigeria – Unheard Voices – Violence Against Women in the Family

In this report Amnesty International calls for the authorities to monitor violence against women in the home, to ban it in law and repeal laws that allow it to flourish, to end discrimination against women in the criminal justice system, and to take positive measures to challenge social...