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

Décembre, 2003
Rwanda
Nigéria
Zambie
Afrique du Sud
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Eswatini
Ghana
Sénégal
Éthiopie
Afrique sub-saharienne

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.

The right to land and a livelihood: the dynamics of land tenure systems in Conda, Amboim and Sumbe municipalities

Décembre, 2004
Angola
Afrique sub-saharienne

What are the dynamics of land tenure in the CAS (Conda, Ambuim, and Sumbe) area in Angola? What are its opportunities and risks? This paper reveals a denial of land access rights to communal farmers, whose livelihoods are centred on land.

Communities protecting water

Décembre, 2001

The Kumasi peri-urban area is characterised by high rates of conversion of agricultural land to private housing. Kumasi, Ghana, is also situated across a major drainage divide, resulting in a range of water quality and supply problems. Collaborative DFID-funded research by Royal Holloway, University of London, with government and NGO partners in Ghana, aims to develop and pilot a sustainable co-management approach to peri- urban watersheds.

Land tenure and rural development

Décembre, 2001

The purpose of this guide is to provide support to those who are assessing and designing appropriate responses to food insecurity and rural development situations. This guide aims to show where and why land tenure is an important issue in food security and sustainable rural livelihoods. The main objective of these guidelines is to provide detailed suggestions for consideration of land tenure issues in rural development policy.

The challenges of securing women's tenure and leadership for forest management: the Asian experience

Décembre, 2011
Indonésie
Népal
Chine
Philippines
Asie méridionale

This collection of analyses spotlight cases and interviews with prominent women activists involved in natural resource management in Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines and China to better understand the diverse challenges faced by Asian women in relation to limited rights and insecure tenure. Despite contextual differences, the studies identify a number of similarities and trends.

Gender and soil fertility in Uganda: a comparison of soil fertility indicators on women’s and men’s agricultural plots

Décembre, 2001
Afrique sub-saharienne

The study was conducted to determine whether the gender difference in wealth and land allocation between male and female farmers in male-headed households is manifested in soil fertility indicators. It determined chemical fertility levels (fertility indicators) in the composite topsoil samples from 5 woman-owned plots and 5 man-owned plots in Ntanzi village, Uganda, on a Rhodic Ferralsol. A similar study was conducted on 8 woman-owned and 8 man-owned plots in Buggala Island, Uganda, on a Ferralic Arenosol.

Women’s Land Rights in Pakistan: Policy Brief 22

Janvier, 2010
Pakistan
Asie méridionale

Women’s land ownership and control have important connections with their empowerment in Pakistan’s agricultural context. However, the link between these has largely remained unexplored; and there has been only a few research to determine how many women own or control land in Pakistan. The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) carried out a multiple pronged research in 2007-09 to fill this knowledge gap and to examine the reason behind women’s land ownership and empowerment.

Double standards: women's property rights violations in Kenya

Reports & Research
Décembre, 2002
Afrique sub-saharienne
Kenya

This report recounts the experiences of 130 women from various regions, ethnic groups, religions, and social classes in Kenya who have had their property rights flouted because they are women.The report presents evidence that women are excluded from inheriting, evicted from their lands and homes by in-laws, stripped of their possessions, and forced to engage in risky sexual practices in order to keep their property. When they divorce or separate from their husbands, they are often expelled from their homes with only their clothing.

Rural women’s access to land in Latin America

Décembre, 1998
Amérique latine et Caraïbes

Paper addresses the following concerns:rural women have limited access to and control of landmost agrarian reforms and legislation that directly or indirectly regulate access to land discriminate against womenthe establishment of legal frameworks with a gender perspective and the elimination of cultural and institutional factors that prevent the recognition of women as producers are essential to safeguard rural women’s access to land.Merely introducing principles of equality into constitutions and in certain norms is not sufficient.

Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB workshop on women's land rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

Reports & Research
Décembre, 2002
Afrique sub-saharienne
Éthiopie
Kenya
Malawi
Mozambique
Ouganda
Botswana
Afrique du Sud

This document reports on a workshop held in South Africa in June 2003 to address continuing insecurity of women's land rights. It brought together a broad group of participants covering NGO, grassroots, government, UN agency staff, researchers, activists, lawyers, and women living with HIV/AIDS.

Israel and the Occupied Territories: conflict, occupation and patriarchy, women carry the burden

Décembre, 2004
Israël
Palestine
Asie occidentale
Afrique septentrionale

This report deals with the impact of violence against women in the Occupied Territories in the context of conflict, including violence committed by the Israeli state or its agents; the collapse of the rule of law within the Occupied Territories leading to a lack of implementation of existing laws; and the worsening effects of existing discrimination in both law and practice. This report highlights the gender related impact of violations committed by the Israeli forces in the context of conflict.