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“Country Profile: Indonesia”

This summary of Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPR) issues in Indonesia is part of a series of LTPR Country Profiles produced for USAID. The profile includes information on property rights and tenure concerning land, forests, freshwater, and minerals, as well as an aggregation of LTPR-related...

"Access to justice for women: The role of religious courts”

This paper discusses the role of Indonesian religious courts in giving access to justice for women. It will analyze the role with the perspective of procedural and substantive justice. The discussion on access to procedural justice encompasses client service, prodeo case, and circuit court,...

"Dowry in Batticaloa: Historical transformation of a matrilineal property system"
"Dreaming of Dowry: post tsunami housing strategies in Eastern Sri Lanka"
"Household in Akkaraipattu: Dowry and Domestic Organization among Matrilineal Tamils and Moors of Sri Lanka"
This paper describes and analyses the pattern of descent, marriage and household organization shared by Muslims and Tamils in the town of Akkaraipattu in the matrilineal belt of Sri Lanka, the Tamil-speaking, eastern coastal region.
A Gender Analysis of Tsunami Impact: Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction in some Districts in Sri Lanka
This report presents the findings of a study supported by UNIFEM and coordinated by the Center for Women’s Research in the period March – September 2005. The research for the study was done by seven women’s organizations who linked with their partner community based organizations in six districts...
A Guide to Property Law in Afghanistan
This publication provides an overview of the laws and legal system which pertains to property in Afghanistan.
A series of articles on the struggle for land in Okara
A socio-legal study on the Head of the Household concept in Sri Lanka

The study sought to understand the origins and the use of the Head of the Household concept in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the tsunami as it was used to disentitle women of post tsunami state allocated lands.

A Transformation of customary marriage and Inheritance Laws of the Sinhalese under British Colonialism