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WRRC Bibliography: Women's Inheritance and Property Rights

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“Islamic inheritance law in Indonesia: The influence of Hazairin's theory of bilateral inheritance"
Islamic inheritance law has long been a source of controversy in Indonesia. The controversy has generally been framed in terms of a supposed conflict between Islamic inheritance doctrines and the customary law or adat of the country's many ethnic communities. This article argues that recent...
“Islamic land law in Afghanistan: innovative land tools & strategies”
“Islamic Land Tools to Empower Women: A Global Land Tool”
“Joint marital property in Indonesian customary, Islamic, and national law"
“Labour, land, and women’s rights in Africa: challenges for the new Protocol on the Rights of Women”
This paper discuss the additional Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, which was adopted in 2003, signed by thirty African states and ratified by at least half that number. The paper examines the challenges posed to this Protocol by existing...
“Land law and economic change in rural Senegal : Diola pledge transactions and disputes”
“Land law and the transition to capitalism: natural history of a Senegalese case study”
Snyder’s three papers above examine how land legislation in Senegal institutionalises the transition to capitalism.
“Land policy and tenure in South East Asia, 1995-2005”
This paper argues that land administration systems are now businesses. At one end of a wide spectrum land systems are being re=engineered engaging in business strategies, competition policies, and formal professional standards. At the other end, developing countries in Asia Pacific are being...
“Land reform and public land ownership in Senegal”
“Land rights in crisis: restoring tenure security in Afghanistan”
This study concludes that long years of misdirected policy have entrenched deeply inequitable and often unjust land ownership relations among tribes, between agricultural and pastoral systems and among feudally arranged classes of society. Attempts to remedy these have been poorly executed.