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“Women, wives and land rights in Africa: situating gender beyond the household in the debate over land policy and changing tenure systems”
The debate over land reform in Africa is embedded in evolutionary models, in which it is assumed landholding systems are evolving into individualized systems of ownership with greater market integration. This process is seen to be occurring even without state protection of private land rights...
“Women’s Access to Land and Other Natural Resources in Indonesia”
How do the rural poor, and especially women use and value land and other natural resources? How do they benefit from them? What processes of empowerment evolve when women’s access to and control over these resources are increased and improved? This report by the Women’s Resource Access Programme (...
“Women’s access to land in Africa"
This article begins by establishing women’s land and property rights within international human rights law. The author then moves to examine current systems of land tenure in Africa and the extent to which women are able to access their property rights. The article notes the discrepancy between...
“Women’s Activism Against Violence in South Sulawesi”

Prior to the reform era (1998) the issue of violence against women in Indonesia was largely neglected. Post-1998 the women’s movement in Indonesia began to focus on the issue of violence against women in both the public and the domestic sphere. This chapter examines the efforts of women...

“Women’s Equality and Culture in the Context of Identity Politics”

This paper seeks to distinguish culture as it is lived and practised in its fluid and contradictory forms from cultural identity projects that construct it in homogenous and static terms. Cultural projects hide issues of domination, othering and identities both within and amongst cultural...

“Women’s property rights in Afghanistan”

The publication presents perspectives from a number of countries including Afghanistan reflecting the idea that women’s land, property and housing rights require treatment within a broad human rights framework and that women’s status and condition, as well as their experience of violence, is...

“Women’s right to land and housing in tsunami affected Aceh, Indonesia”
This paper is based on extensive fieldwork in tsunami-affected Aceh, Indonesia, between August 2006 and January 2007, and focuses on two key land rights issues for women in tsunami-affected Aceh: inheritance and documentation of land rights.
“‘Anything With Two Heads Is a Monster’: Religious Leaders’ Perspectives on Marital Equality and Domestic Violence”

Religious leaders from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths were interviewed about their understanding of the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and religion. The present article explores the leaders’ understanding of how relationship dynamics relate to IPV, focusing particularly...

“‘Honour Killings’ and the law in Pakistan”

This paper reviews case law on 'honour killings' in Pakistan, where under the Qisas and Diyat Ordinance heirs of a victim of murder are entitled to pardon the murderer. The paper reflects, through an in-depth analysis of case law, criticisms made of the legal system and the judiciary in...

“‘Honour Killing’: Culture, Politics and Theory”

Beginning with a discussion of the Swedish case of Fadime Sahindal, this article then deliberates over honour killings of Kurdish women in general. The author includes the concepts of culture, patriarchy, nationalism, racism, education and religion in her analysis of the phenomenon of ‘honour...