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Some Customary practices that affect the enjoyment of fundamental human rights of women in Nigeria

This article covers the ibos, the Tivs, the Idoma and Beroms of Nigeria. The author offers various definitons of customary law and then examines customary practices like payment of bride price, widowhood practices, property rights wife inheritance , etc and how they affect the enjoyment of of...

Succession in the Muslim Family
In this comprehensive study, Professor Coulson discusses the classical Islamic law as it applied to problems of succession and reforms introduced by modern statutes.
Sudan Women's Access to Land and Property Rights Workshop: Workshop Report May 2010

This is a report of a workshop organized by the USAID which sought to highlight the discrepancies between women’s land rights under the law and popular perceptions of those rights, as identified during consultations with the State, outline policy and legal trends related to women’s land rights...

Sudan: The Question of Land

This is the tenth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they should be implemented. This article focuses on the question of land tenure. Conflict over land is one of the major reasons...

Summary: Land Rights for Muslim Women: Review of Law and Policy

This document provides a short summary of law and policy impacting on women’s land rights in Pakistan.

The Habitat Agenda Goals and Principles, Commitments and the Global Plan of Action
The Habitat Agenda is the main political document that came out of the Habitat II conference in Istanbul, Turkey 3 to 14 June 1996. Adopted by 171 countries, at what was called the City Summit it contains over 100 commitments and 600 recommendations on human settlements issues. The agenda has...
The Holy Qur’an: text, translation and commentary
Chapter IV; Verses 11, 12, and 176 are the three main verses which deal with inheritance. There are also other verses which have a bearing on the question of inheritance.
The Loi Relative au Domaine Nationale 1964, (National Domain Law)
The Matrilineal East Coast, Circa 1968: Nostalgia and Post Nostalgia in our troubled time
The Muslim personal Law (Shariat) Application Act (XXVI of 1937)
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