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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2006
    Africa, Uganda

    This paper presents the preliminary findings of a study on land conflicts between refugees and host communities in southwestern Uganda and their impact on refugee women’s livelihoods. Uganda has a long history of hosting refugees that dates back to the 1940s, when it hosted Polish refugees; Rwandese and Sudanese in the 1950s (Holborn 1975:1213-1225).

  2. Library Resource

    Bridging the Divide between Land Policy and Practice. Securing women’s land rights through engendering the formalization process of customary land tenure in Uganda: Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children’s welfare

    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2016
    Africa, Uganda

    The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda is one of the most gender sensitive constitutions in the world, with clear provisions for promoting and protecting the rights of women. This is also the case in relation to women’s land rights – the Constitution clearly vests land in the people of Uganda, including the rights of women to own and inherit land. Other land laws, including the Land Act, recognize and uphold women’s rights to land as individuals, and as part of a family or community.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2013
    Global, Africa

    Across the developing world, rural women suffer widespread gender-based discrimination in laws, customs and practices cause severe inequalities in their ability to access, control, own and use land and limit their participation in decision-making at all levels of land governance.

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