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USAID COUNTRY PROFILE: Property Rights and Resource Governance, Niger

This summary of Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPR) issues in Niger is part of a series of LTPR Country Profiles produced by Associates in Rural Development, World Resources Institute and Rural Development Institute for USAID. The profile includes information on property rights and tenure...

Use of Indicators in the Campaign against FGM

This manual provides practical information on the use of indicators of process and impact in the fight against Female Genital Mutilation. 

Violence Against Women and Impediments in Access to Justice

This report gives an initial historiography of violence against women and its roots in the Subcontinent, and positions in within the broader global context. By juxtaposing the statistics related to both violence against women and men, it shows the numerical prevalence of the former.It speaks to...

Violence Against Women in Asian Societies

In this volume the authors explore violence against women in the wider context of patriarchal violence, seeking to tease out the ways in which violence acts to perpetuate not only gender inequality, but also broader social, economic and political injustices that deny women’s and men’s human...

Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges

This book contains the contributions of participants at a seminar, organised by the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul, and titled ‘International Seminar on Violence in the Name of Honour’ (4-6 December 2003). The first section of the book – ‘Theoretical Explorations of Honour Killings’ –...

Waiting for the rural code: perspective on land tenure reform in Niger

Since 1986 serious efforts have been made in Niger to prepare for reform of land tenure in the form of a Rural Code. This paper aims to outline some of the problems facing successful implementation of the Rural code in Niger and to sketch out some of the social and instituttional trends which...

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Building of Women

This book chronicles a unique filmmaking journey. It describes documentary efforts undertaken from California to England, Senegal, The Gambia, and Burkina Faso, characterised by interviews with people who are concerned with and affected by the practice of female genital mutilation. The text...

Who owns the farm? Rural women’s access to land and livestock: the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
Land and livestock are considered to be key assets for rural livelihoods, yet little is known about the factors that enable or constrain different women’s access to these, what ownership mean in practice nor about women who come forward to claim these rights. This study of rural villages Badakshan...
Women and Land in Africa: A case study from Senegal
Women and Land in Africa: Case Study of Senegal
This study analyses the important role played by women in the Senegalese economy through their contribution in agriculture, which remains the key activity and the target of development policy. Such analysis shows that although their contribution is extremely important, it is invisible and not taken...