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Mujeres en el mundo rural

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2011
South America
Colombia

   * Sergio Andrés Coronado Delgado Los procesos de emancipación de las mujeres requieren, además de la superación de las condiciones de exclusión social y discriminación que cotidianamente deben enfrentar, la plena garantía de sus derechos humanos integrales y, para el caso de las mujeres rurales, el gobierno y control del bien más importante y sobre el cual construyen y realizan sus proyectos de vida: la tierra.

Returnees Land Access: Lessons from Rwanda

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2007
Rwanda

This background briefing reports on a study of land access
for returnees in Rwanda, and the impacts of land access
policies in the post-conflict period. It also seeks to
understand better the roles international humanitarian
agencies and NGOs have played, and how their performance
can be improved. It is not suggested that Rwanda is typical,
but rather that the centrality of land issues there has thrown
up a revealing set of broader questions.

Women’s Land Rights in Customary Dispute Resolution in Rwanda: Lessons from a Pilot Intervention by RCN Justice et Démocratie

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2012
Rwanda

This brief discusses a pilot intervention in Rwanda led by the Belgian
NGO, RCN Justice & Démocratie, with support from the International
Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the Belgian Government. A
more detailed and complete discussion of the pilot is given in Lankhorst
and Veldman (2011a). The pilot aimed to transform the customary
resolution of disputes involving women’s land claims concerning
inheritance or marital relations. The intervention examined whether
and to what extent it was possible to increase the scope for acceptance

Women and land after conflict in Rwanda

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2009
Rwanda

Female-headed households often experience inequalities in access to resources and income-generating opportunities. Conflicts may make women poorer. But it is important to realise that conflicts also offer an opportunity for change in which gender stereotypes shift and gender roles and identities can be renegotiated. Did genocide and civil war in Rwanda lead to new opportunities for rural women?