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Gender Discrimination in the Division of Marital Property on Divorce in Nigeria
This paper considers how the law in Nigeria discriminates against women in respect of the distribution of property on divorce. It also discusses whether international or regional instruments which have been ratified by Nigeria have helped eliminate discrimination against women in this regard.
Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook: Module 4: Gender Issues in Land Policy and Administration
This module contains an overview of gender issues in land policy as well as practices, advice on how to address these in the implementation of land administration programmes, including a list of indicators for monitoring. Thematic notes explore policy and implementation issues and highlights good...
Gender issues and Best Practices in Land Administration projects: A Synthesis Report

This report is a synthesis of information gleaned from four case studies of World Bank-financed land programs in Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Ghana, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The case studies were designed to both broaden and deepen our understanding of how land policies affect women and...

Gender Policies and Land in Africa: navigating a minefield
This paper highlight several issues including a growing concensus that solutions to women’s land tenure problems need to be grounded in local specificities, that gender policies related to land ownership have tended to be piecemeal, circumscribed and homogenous and what kind of policy responses...
Gender Sensitive Guidelines on Implementing the Tsunami Housing Policy

The Tsunami Housing Policy states that cash grants are supposed to go to the owner of the previous land/house. In practice the cash allocations have been deposited into existing bank accounts which were used earlier to deposit tsunami assistance grants of Rupees 5000 (about $49). In most cases...

Gender, Land rights and Inheritance. Securing Women’s Land Rights: approaches prospects and challenges
This paper discusses the issues involved in women’s land interests and inheritiance, with reference to recent land tenure reforms in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda and reviews debate among gender justice activists about how related issues should be addressed, in particular the problems of customary law...
Gender-Based Violence

This collection of articles on gender-based violence (GBV) is aimed at development and humanitarian practitioners, policy makers, and academics. This book brings together some of the most interesting and innovative work being done to tackle GBV in various sectors, world regions, and socio-...

Genre, sexualité & société
C’est est une revue électronique de langue française, à comité de lecture, pluridisciplinaire et internationale, entièrement dédiée aux recherches sur la sexualité et sur le genre. La revue paraît deux fois par an. Consacrée, sans exclusive, aux problématiques du genre et de la sexualité, elle se...
Global Voices Online
Global Voices Online est une organisation à but non-lucratif de blogueurs du monde entier fondée au Berkman Center for Internet and Society de la faculté de droit de Harvard. Le Berkman Center for Internet and Society est un think tank (groupe de recherche) qui étudie l'impact d'Internet sur nos...
Groupe femmes pour l’Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles et autres pratiques affectant la santé des femmes et des enfants (GAMS)

Le G.A.M.S est une association Loi 1901. Elle est constituée de femmes africaines et de femmes françaises ayant des compétences dans les champs de la santé, du social, de l’éducation, et une longue expérience de prévention des mutilations génitales féminines. Le G.A.M.S. est financé par le...