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Two important resolutions for women were adopted by the United Nations last year. One was the UNHABITAT Resolution on “Women's Role and Rights in Human Settlements Development and Slum Upgrading” and the other was the Commission on Human Rights Resolution on “Women's Equal Ownership, Access to, and Control over Land and the Equal Rights to Own Property and to Adequate Housing”. These resolutions recognised the violation of women's property rights as a violation of fundamental human rights and the UN's commitment to stop such violations. In 2003, the UN Secretary General commissioned a Special Committee on Women, Girls, and the HIV & AIDS in Southern Africa, recognising that women and girls were the most negatively affected by the HIV & AIDS pandemic. Under this committee, seven key issues were selected for investigation. One of them was HIV & AIDS and property rights of women and girls.
