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WRRC Bibliography: Women's Inheritance and Property Rights

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Dispossession and Management of Common Property: Women and Inheritance in East Africa
Double Oppression: Women and Land Matters in Kaduna State
E.J. Brill’s First Encyclopedia of Islam 1913-1936
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, law, and politics
This section explains that although inheritance laws in Afghanistan based on the Shariah assigns women precisely defined shares of an estate according to detailed genealogical consideration, local custom supersedes these laws, to the effect that women with exceptions are not considered heirs. Women...
Engendering exclusion in Senegal’s democratic decentralization: Subordinating women through participatory natural resource management
As stated in the Abstract, “this dissertation demonstrates how external agency participatory programs with village committees and how multi-party competition and rivalries have undermined women's decision making and access to forest resources and land in a rural Senegalese community. Using a...
FAO Sudan: Full Country Report, Gender and Land Rights database

This country report provides information on the national legal framework including rights entrenched in the Constitution, women's property and use rights in Civil Code, Labour Code,and Family Code, inheritance legal mechanisms , land law and policies/Institutional mechanisms enforcing or...

Gender and access to land and natural resources in Mali and Niger

In some West African countries, decentralisation and the establishment of local government are opening the way to more representative democratic processes. One hope is that, as a result, women will get more involved in public life. Access to land and natural resources in Mali and Niger is a...

Gender and Access to Land in Senegal
Gender and command over property: A critical gap in economic analysis and policy in South Asia
This paper focuses on a much neglected issue: the links between gender inequities and command over property. It outlines why in rural South Asia, where arable land is the most important form of property, any significant improvement in women's economic and social situation is crucially tied to their...
Gender and Property Law in Pakistan, Resources and Discourses
This is perhaps the only study that examines systematically the situation on the ground regarding women and property laws in Pakistan. Through seven case studies in the four provinces of Pakistan, Mehdi finds that there is a history of usufructuary rights exercised by women in the country’s rural...