Customary Rights

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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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[09/07/2012] Report on ActionAid's Women's Land Rights Project in Guatemala, India, and Sierra Leone available online
The new baseline report on ActionAid’s Women’s Land Rights Project highlights the need for indigenous women in Guatemala, Dalit women in India, and rural women affected by HIV and AIDS in...
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[09/07/2012] New NORAD report examines 'How to Support Women's Land Rights in Mozambique?'
The report discusses: How to Support Women’s Land Rights in Mozambique? – by drawing upon the experiences, approaches used, and lessons learnt through Norwegian support to four main organizations:...
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[09/05/2012] The Right to Land and Justice for Women in Africa
I invite you to read the report of the African women’s land rights Conference held in Nairobi from 30th May to the 2nd of June 2011 and, in particular, its final declaration (pp. 34-37), which...
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[06/02/2012] Women's Land Rights and customary tenure in Uganda
Judy Adoko, Executive Director at the Land and Equity Movement (LEMU, Uganda) sent us a set of documents as a contribution for the on-line discussion “How can women’s land...
News
[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...
Events
[08/11/2011] Beyond Titling: Where Do We Go From Here?
[From hlsorgs.com] The Harvard Law and International Development Society is pleased to announce the topic of its 2011 Annual Symposium: Beyond Titling: Where Do We Go From Here?. The 2011 Symposium...
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[08/09/2011] Securing women’s land rights in Eastern Africa: Time for a paradigm shift
This Policy brief provides a summary into women’s land tenure issues in East Africa. The brief aims to highlight the gap between women’s land tenure security and the policy provisions to secure women...
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[06/09/2011] Assessment of the Msikazi Communal Property Association (CPA)
This is the assessment of a South African land reform program. It found that the land reform had been successfull in allowing the community as a whole to remain on their land, but that internal...
News
[05/09/2011] Tanzania: Maasai women gain access to land - By John Cheburet
Mary Komeiyan would like to grow food for her children. But she has no land. She lives in a village where crops come second in importance to livestock. Cows feed on the small plot of maize near...
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