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1. Library Resource

   

   To Have and to Hold: Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Informes e investigaciones

   Enero, 2004

   Kenya, Zambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, África oriental, África austral

   Tierra y Género

   Posesión

   Derechos de tierras

   Mujeres

   What are the links between HIV/AIDS and women's property rights in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? This paper asks if women's lack of rights increases household poverty and their own vulnerability to infection, and if securing these rights can reduce the impacts of the epidemic on poverty. The paper notes that gender inequality in land ownership is common in SSA, due to male preference in inheritance, male bias in state programmes of land distribution, and gender inequality in the land market.

2. Library Resource

   

   Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

   Recursos y herramientas de capacitación

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Enero, 2004

   Eslovenia, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, Eslovaquia, El Salvador, Croacia, Chile, Zimbabwe, Alemania, Suiza, Hungría, Australia, Tanzania, Polonia, India, Brasil, República Checa, Europa oriental, Global, América central, África oriental, América del Sur, África austral, Asia oriental, Caribe, Asia meridional, Asia central

   Tierra y Género

   Derechos de tierras

   Desarrollo rural

   Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship. Citizenship is about concrete institutions, policy and structures and the ways in which people can shape them using ideas of rights and participation.

3. Library Resource

   

   Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

   Documentos de política y resúmenes

   Enero, 2004

   Ghana, África occidental

   Tierra y Género

   Derechos de tierras

   Tierras

   This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfer and ownership, as well as school investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Traditional inheritance rules deny land ownership rights to women. Yet the increase in the demand for women's labour due to the expansion of labour intensive cocoa cultivation has created incentives for husbands to give their wives and children land. Through this and other gift mechanisms, women have increasingly acquired land, thereby reducing the gender gap in land ownership.

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   The impact of HIV AIDS on land rights: case studies from Kenya

   Enero, 2004

   Kenya, África subsahariana

   Tierra y Género

   Tierras

   Tenencia de la tierra

   Derechos de tierras

   Registro de tierras

   Mujeres

   This study explores the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in Kenya, with a particular focus on women as a socially vulnerable group. It examines: the ways that HIV/AIDS-affected households are coping in terms of land access, use and management; the consequences of these coping strategies on security of access and rights to land; and how changes in land tenure, access and rights to land among different categories of people are affecting agricultural productivity, food security and poverty.

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   Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

   Enero, 2004

   Rwanda, Nigeria, Zambia, Sudáfrica, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Esuatini, Ghana, Senegal, Etiopía, África subsahariana

   Tierra y Género

   Mujeres

   Tenencia de la tierra

   In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.