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Land Tenure in Asia and The Pacific: Challenges,Opportunities and Way Forward

Reports & Research
January, 2015
South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Urban Tenure
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
land acquisitions
land governance
land policies
land tenure
landlessness
natural disasters
urbanization
This publication provides an overview of the findings of a review of land tenure security in Asia and the Pacific region in collaboration with key partners. It highlights the major land challenges, barriers and opportunities as the basis for future decisions about partnerships and engagement in the land sector at sub-regional and country level. The findings are based on an extensive literature review, interviews, a questionnaire, validation at several multi-stakeholder meetings and peer review.
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Organizing for transformation? How and why organizers plan their multi-stakeholder forums

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2021
Ethiopia, Brazil, Peru, Indonesia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
equal rights
development
public participation
forestry
forest conservation
land use
land conservation
land use change
land stakeholders
local communities
HIGHLIGHTS
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Women's perceptions of tenure security

Evidence from 33 Countries

Reports & Research
March, 2019
Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Namibia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, United Kingdom
gender equity in access to land
land tenure
land tenure systems
property rights
tenure security
women
This report uses household-level data from 33, mostly developing, countries to analyse perceptions of tenure insecurity among women. We test two hypotheses: (1) that women feel more insecure than men; and (2) that increasing statutory protections for women, for instance by issuing joint named titles or making inheritance law more gender equal, increases de facto tenure security.
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Examining gender inequalities in land rights indicators in Asia

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Southern Asia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
property rights
women
This paper reviews the available data on men’s and women’s land rights, identifies what can and cannot be measured by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual framework developed in 2014 by Doss et al., we utilize nationally representative individual- and plot-level data from Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Vietnam, and Timor-Leste to calculate five indicators: incidence of ownership by sex; distribution of ownership by sex; and distribution of plots, mean plot size, and distribution of land area, all by sex of owner.
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Gender, the Status of Women, and Family Structure in Malaysia

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2017
Malaysia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
agriculture
matrilineal lineage
patrilineal lineage
This paper addresses the question of whether the relatively high status of women in pre-colonial South-east Asia is still evident among Malay women in twentieth century Peninsular Malaysia. Compared to patterns in East and South Asia, Malay family structure does not follow the typical patriarchal patterns of patrilineal descent, patrilocal residence of newly married couples, and preference for male children.
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In all fairness

Two decades of CEDAW and the state of gender equality in Singapore

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2018
Singapore
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
women
In an inclusive society, all women would have equal opportunities as men to participate socially, politically and economically. They would be valued and recognised as individuals in their own right and not primarily defi ned by their marital and reproductive status. Has this been achieved in Singapore? Contrary to common belief, the nation still has some ways to go in this regard, for signifi cant groups of women in Singapore continue to be marginalised and disadvantaged.
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2020 United Nations High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development: Voluntary National Review Report of Brunei Darussalam

Reports & Research
June, 2020
Brunei Darussalam
Land, Climate Change & Environment
COVID-19
gender equity
land governance
development
sustainable development
land policies
infrastructure
land investments
government
Brunei Darussalam strives to build on its Millennium Development Goals achievements to take greater strides towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The Islamic Legal Provisions for Women’s Share in the Inheritance System: A Reflection on Malaysian Society

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2014
Malaysia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity
land inheritance rights
customary law
Islamic law
customary land rights
property rights
women
Characterized as divinely ordained, the Islamic law of inheritance defines women’s rights to property of the deceased with specific roles and responsibilities for each individual. Obviously, the Islamic law of inheritance is a major contribution to the legal system of the world, compared to the customary laws in the pre‐Islamic Arab society that denied any proprietary right by way of inheritance to female relatives including daughters.
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Realising women’s human rights in Malaysia

the EMPOWER report

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2015
Malaysia
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land law
land policies
women
Why do activist groups representing some of society’s most marginalized employ legalistic forms of ‘rights talk’ when the reality of securing rights via the judicial system is almost unimaginable? The article considers this question in relation to the work of the Malaysian non-governmental organisation (NGO) EMPOWER who, in 2011, produced the Malaysian Women’s Human Rights Report focusing attention on the rights of informal sector workers, refugees, sexual minorities and women’s rights under non-Islamic family law.
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Islamic Law, Women's Rights, and Popular Legal Consciousness in Malaysia

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2013
Malaysia
Land & Gender
gender equity
land law
rule of law
Islamic law
land rights
religious tenure regimes
women
Drawing on original survey research, this study examines how lay Muslims in Malaysia understand foundational concepts in Islamic law. The survey finds a substantial disjuncture between popular legal consciousness and core epistemological commitments in Islamic legal theory. In its classic form, Islamic legal theory was marked by its commitment to pluralism and the centrality of human agency in Islamic jurisprudence. Yet in contemporary Malaysia, lay Muslims tend to understand Islamic law as being purely divine, with a single “correct” answer to any given question.