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Nigeria: Inheritance Rights and women (iii)
Nigeria: Strategic forum focuses on women and housing rights initiatives

Women’s rights NGO and other stakeholders have formulated an action plan that aims to promote women’s access to land and housing as well as other property and inheritance rights.

Nigeria: Women want review of Land use Act
This article refers to women from the Agricultural and Allied employees Union of Nigeria (AAUEN) demanding from the state government to review its land use Act and other laws to encourage mass production of food.
Non-existence within existence: a case study of the excessive burden placed on women peasants in two villages in the Halimun Ecosystem

This paper was presented at the International Conference on Land and Resource Tenure, Jakarta, 11-13 October 2004. The writer was part of a panel of women speaking on the theme of women and tenurial rights. For further information see www....

Numbers of women circumcised in Africa: The Production of a Total

This is a report detailing the numbers of women in Africa who have been circumcised or have undergone FGC.

Objecting to Methods of Proof of Guilt in Stoning Cases

This is an interview with GholamHossein Raesi, an attorney and member of the Network of Volunteer Lawyers. He is the lawyer of Parisa A. who has been sentenced to be stoned and also an activist with the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign. The interview details Raesi’s argument that stoning sentences...

Okara women struggle for land rights
This is a letter which highlights the role of women in the  struggle for land in Okara and also the role of women workers helpline in assisting these women.
Pakistan ranks 104th in International Property Rights for women
Article discusses a study done  on property rights of women in Pakistan which has found that despite the fact that 98 percent of the Pakistani population is Muslim and the religion Islam gives the right of inheritance to all inheritors either male or female, this right is not enjoyed in...
Pakistan: Honour Killings of Women and Girls

This report describes the different facets of the phenomenon of honour killings in Pakistan. It looks at the traditions that form the framework of such killings, particularly the commodification of women and the notion of honour. Honour killings may happen for a variety of reasons, including...

Pakistan: The tenants’ struggle on Okara Military Farms

This article reports on the conflict between the military farm administrations and the tenants at Okara Military farms when the former forcibly tried to replace the age-old crop-sharing system of cultivation with cash-rent and yearly lease system. The tenants who had tilled the land through...