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African women must know and claim their inheritance rights
Based on an interview with Josephine Nzerem, a leading Nigerian women’s rights activist, this article argues that African women must become more interested and involved in their husbands’ and fathers' financial activities to protect their inheritance and property rights which key to female economic...
Agrarian change, gender and land rights
In a preface to the book, the UNRISD Director wrote: “The contributions to this volume explore how the deflationary macro-economic policies and processes associated with economic liberalisation are impacting on rural livelihoods and agrarian change in diverse political economies, focusing in...
Agricultural production and women’s rights to land in sub-Saharan Africa
All Her Worldly Goods: Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

The Beijing Platform for Action, adopted by governments at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 15 September 1995 is an agenda for women's empowerment. The Platform aims at accelerating the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and focuses on 12...

Bringing Equality Home: Promoting and Protecting the Inheritance Rights of Women: A survey of Law and practice in Sub-Saharan Africa

This report documents the tragic reality that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in Sub-Saharan Africa (including Nigeria and Senegal) – regardless of their marital status- cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own rights. Instead...

Caste and Matriclan Structures in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Preliminary Report on Fieldwork in Akkaraipattu
Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa
Across rural Africa, land legislation struggles to be properly implemented, and most resource users gain access to land on the basis of local land tenure systems. There is growing recognition that land laws must build on local practice. In recent years, several African countries have adopted...
Changing customary land rights and gender relations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa
The effect of prime age adult death and its consequences on access to land for the survivors has not been fully explored nor incorporated into policy regardless of the fact that high adult mortality is now the lived reality in countries affected by HIV /AIDS, particularly in Africa. This paper...
Chart of Customary Practices in Pakistan in Comparison with Statutory Law
This is a comprehensive analysis of the role of customary practices in determining the space, rights and self-actualization of women in Pakistan. It looks into the outcome of the historical experience of colonization and its impact on statutory law, the local structures of power and the cultural...