Women do 70 per cent of the agricultural work in Senegal, but according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), own only two percent of the land that may be cultivated. Although property laws in countries such as Senegal, Tunisia and Burkina Faso recognise women' s and men's equal rights, and Islam gives women the right to inherit half what men inherit, in practice men retain land ownership. Women are dependent on fathers or husbands for land.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesAbril, 2003Burkina Faso, Túnez, Senegal, África occidental, Asia occidental, África septentrional
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Library ResourceEnero, 2004Rwanda, Nigeria, Zambia, Sudáfrica, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Esuatini, Ghana, Senegal, Etiopía, África subsahariana
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.
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