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CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

Policy Papers & Briefs
februari, 2001
Peru
Central America
Caribbean
South America

Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women. However, mandatory changes in Peru's education system, including the introduction of the National Sex Education Programme, are highlighted as positive steps.

Making Progress – Slowly. New Attention to Women’s Rights in Natural Resource Law Reform in Africa

Reports & Research
februari, 2001
Africa

Critical shifts are affecting rural resource rights in Africa through widespread reform in land, forestry and other laws. The cutting edge of transformation affecting women is in emerging new provision for wives to hold family property as co-owners with their husbands, which could play a main role in revitalising smallholder agriculture. Recognition that equity in domestic land relations may ultimately be a prerequisite to the modernisation of subsistence agriculture in agrarian economies is the thesis underlying the analysis of legal texts in this paper.

Women's land and property rights in situations of conflict and reconstruction

december, 2000

Despite advances in the international rights regime, persistent discrimination evident in the customary laws which regulate women's status in most traditional societies was a constant factor across cultural, social and political divides. The case-histories and testimonies recorded by the Kigali Consultation provide an insight into changes in land and inheritance rights brought about by conflict and its attendant social disruptions.

The Gender Dimensions of Poverty in Egypt

Reports & Research
december, 2000
Egypt
Western Asia
Northern Africa

Does poverty in Egypt have a woman's face? Is female poverty linked to their conditions in the labour market or levels of education? Are women particularly at risk in poor households? This report addresses the gender dimensions of poverty using the recent Household Expenditure, Income and Consumption Survey of 1999/2000 for Egypt. Poverty measures of males and females were found to be significantly different, in both urban and rural areas, where higher levels are observed among females than males.

Changes in intrahousehold labor allocation to environmental goods collection

Policy Papers & Briefs
december, 2000
Southern Asia
Nepal

This study explores the impact of changes in environmental conditions on intrahousehold labor allocation to the collection of environmental goods such as fuelwood and leaf fodder for a sample of rural Nepali households. Using household-level panel data collected in 1982 and 1997, the study finds that household collection time significantly increases with measures of environmental resource scarcity, and that the increase appears to come almost equally from men and women.

Género, poder y tenencia de la tierra en un ejido de Veracruz

Journal Articles & Books
december, 2000
Mexico

Para las sociedades agrarias, la tierra no es sólo un medio de producción , sino un elemento cargado de significados y valoraciones que define a los individuos, da sentido a su forma particular de existencia y los vincula con un entorno cultural determinado. La tierra es a la vez signo y referente de un conjunto de relaciones sociales que involucra pertenencia y lugar en una estructura social: su posesión puede implicar prestigio y poder sobre otros, y su carencia puede representar subordinación y vulnerabilidad.

Género, propiedad y empoderamiento: tierra, Estado y mercado en América Latina

Reports & Research
december, 2000
Ecuador

Está en circulación la tercera edición del libro Género, Propiedad y Empoderamiento de Magdalena León, profesora e investigadora asociada de FLACSO Ecuador. Esta publicación reseña como en América Latina el logro de la igualdad formal de hombres y mujeres ante la ley en los derechos de propiedad no ha implicado necesariamente una igualdad real.

Las familias rurales ante las transformaciones socioeconómicas recientes

Reports & Research
december, 2000
Mexico

Para entender las situaciones y dinámicas en que se debaten las familias rurales de nuestro país actualmente, habría que hacer una breve panorámica de los procesos de transformación que se han venido dando en el medio rural, tanto en términos de la orientación de los patrones de producción como en las condiciones agrarias y en las relaciones sociales a todos los niveles, pues son estos procesos los que han marcado las distintas estrategias de organización para la supervivencia y la reproducción de los grupos sociales en el campo mexicano.

Reglamentaciones jurídicas sobre el acceso a la tierra de la mujer rural en países de América Central y el Caribe

Legislation
december, 2000
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Nicaragua

El artículo tiene como finalidad identificar, desde el punto de vista jurídico, los obstáculos que impiden y/o limitan el acceso de la mujer a la tierra en cuatro países en los que se han adoptado reformas agrarias y cuyas condiciones políticas, económicas, sociales e institucionales son diferentes: Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua y la República Dominicana.