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[14/11/2012] Legal empowerment in practice: Using legal tools to secure land rights in Africa
[adapted from IIED report] This report captures the highlights of the international lesson-sharing workshop “Legal empowerment for securing land rights”, which took place in Accra, Ghana, on 13th-...
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[08/11/2012] The Big Picture: Land and Gender Issues in Matrilineal Mozambique
[Paper abstract] This paper analyses through empirical data women’s reality in Northern Mozambique related to land tenure. Two different kinship systems coexist in Mozambique, one patrilineal in...
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[22/08/2012] Land in the right hands - Promoting women's rights to land in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Here it is an interesting publication from UN Women on the work done by the UN entity - and UNIFEM before its establishment in 2011 - to promote women’s empowerment in Kyrgyzstan...
Nouvelles
[18/05/2012] Launch of the 2012 Social Institutions and Gender Index
Did you know that on average, women hold only 15% of land titles for countries where data is available in the new Social Institutions and Gender Index? The OECD Development Centre and the United...
Multimédia
[09/02/2012] Securing women’s rights to land in Burundi through legal empowerment
Through its Transitional Programme of Post Conflict Reconstruction (PTRPC) in Burundi, IFAD has been addressing the issue of land security, with a particular focus on women. Although women have the...
Nouvelles
[12/01/2012] Women use folk songs to create awareness on property rights in tribal Kinnaur - By Vishal Gulati
[The Weekend Leader] It’s 8 in the morning and a group of women is ready to trudge miles of rugged, cold and inhospitable Himalayan terrain to spearhead a campaign — educating tribal...
Nouvelles
[10/01/2012] Single and carrying the load - By Aarti Dhar
[From The Hindu] Not willing to rely on the charitable impulses of family and society for support, the low-income single women in the country – comprising the most vulnerable 10 per cent of the...
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[06/01/2012] Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa
[Abstract] Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda’s nation-...
Nouvelles
[20/12/2011] Odisha: Public Hearing On Women’s Property Rights - Report by Bhaskar Pradhan
[From Orissadiary.com] Bhubaneswar: The unusual venue of Hotel Presidency saw a ‘Public Hearing’ on Women’s property Rights, organised by Agragamee, with support from European Union, and...
Nouvelles
[05/12/2011] Single but not alone - By Aditi Nigam
[From Business Line - The Hindu] Come winter, snow or rain, for the past 15-odd years, Meera (name changed) has been knocking on the doors of courts in Himachal Pradesh. Deserted by her husband, who...
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