Includes gender equality – a liberation struggle or a colonial imposition?; gender equality vs. traditional culture; women’s land rights in traditional culture; what are the practical solutions?; can the paradigm help improve women’s land rights?
ABSTRACTED FROM SUMMARY: Many ethnic groups practice a system of land use and resource management which is uniquely adapted for upland areas. This has developed over generations as part of traditional ways of life, and is underpinned through ritual and customary practices. This study looks at how women’s land and property rights are established and maintained under these customary or traditional tenure systems. Five different ethnic groups were studied: Brao, Trieng, Hmong, Khmu and Tai Dam.
O presente volume reúne algumas das comunicações apresentadas no painel sobre “Cidadania e Governação” da Conferência Inaugural do Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), que teve lugar em Setembro de 2007, em Maputo. Tratando-se de um tema muito amplo e aberto, não existe uma problemática comum aos textos seleccionados.
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This report provides an in depth analysis of the inheritance rights of children in Sri Lanka. Chapter 2 looks at inheritance rights of children from a human rights perspective. It examines the international human rights instruments which guarantee the right to adequate housing of children and which aim to protect their inheritance rights. It analyses the essential components of the right to adequate housing and looks at Sri Lanka’s obligations to protect and promote these rights.
El VII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal realizado en 2007 permite conocer en profundidad tanto la estructura agraria chilena −considerando el uso y tenencia del suelo, tipos de cultivos, tecnología y mano de obra empleada− como los cambios que ha experimentado el sector agrícola, ganadero y forestal durante el último decenio en su estructura productiva, principalmente por el impacto de acuerdos comerciales, ya sea en las estructuras agrícolas como en la condición productiva y en las nuevas prácticas de producción. El análisis de género −considerando al género como la construcción soci
An exciting new collection inspired by a 2003 Oxfam/FAO workshop in Pretoria. Foreword briefly looks at the struggle for women’s land rights across the globe and the lack of concrete gains. Women have been confronted by resistance and patriarchy. Many land reform programmes over the past 60 years were falsely premised on notions of a unitary household. Women were disadvantaged by the codification of customary law in colonial Africa and are now by privatization in a context exacerbated by the coming of HIV and AIDS, which is breaking down notions of reciprocity.
Collective actions groups have many advantages and are sometimes essential, yet they can reinforce or perpetuate inter-and intra-gender inequalities when their functioning is left entirely subject to internal community dynamics and they are not well managed. This is well illustrated by the case of Koussin-Lélé rice scheme in the central Benin.
Contains an overview and thematic notes on gendered access to land and property; legal reforms and women’s property rights; land dispute resolution; gender-responsive titling; case studies from Nepal and Honduras; further reading.
Study in the Oromiya and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples regions of Ethiopia assesses the impacts of land registration and certification since 2004, including joint certification for husbands and wives. Includes gender implications of land certification and empowerment of women, position of polygamous wives, perceptions of benefits of the reform, recommendations.
The main aim of this study was to assess, within the context of the Malonda Programme in Niassa Province, the implementation of community consultations and negotiations as well as the delimitation and demarcation of community land. These activities had been carried out within the context of requests from several investors concerning the Right to Use and Exploit Land (Portuguese acronym DUAT, Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento de Terra), in order to create wide commercial forest plantations in Niassa.
Como consecuencia de la III Conferencia Internacional de la Mujer (Nairobi, 1985) los Estados asistentes se comprometieron a crear espacios institucionales encargados de implementar políticas públicas tendientes a la eliminación de la discriminación contra las Mujeres. Mendoza no fue una excepción.
Includes formal and customary land systems for property rights; legal and customary rights for women; formalization and documentation of land rights; women’s involvement in land transactions; governance and institutions; access to information about women’s land rights; recommendations.