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The Land and Property Rights of Women and orphans in the context of HIV and AIDS

Journal Articles & Books
January, 1970
Zimbabwe
land
property rights
property
women
The effect of HIV/AIDS on Africa and the issues it creates for women in African societies, especially unmarried women, is a difficult one that will not soon go away. These two volumes [ The Land and Property Rights of Women and Orphans in the Context of HIV and AIDS : Case Studies from Zimbabwe, and Reclaiming Our Lives: HIV and AIDS, Women’s Land and Property Rights and Livelihoods in Southern and East Africa: Narratives and Responses] are important and useful additions to the literature of the problem and should be found in academic and research collections dealing with the topic
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Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB Wokshop on Women's Land Rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

Journal Articles & Books
January, 1970
Africa
land
land rights
property
women
The report summarises the papers, presentations and discussions of a workshop on failures and achievements at securing women’s land rights. In particular, it addresses the following issues: Land rights and legal reforms,legal aid and land administration practice, women's land rights in an HIV/AIDS context,women's land rights from a food security and livelihoods context. Organised by the FAO and Oxfam, the workshop seeks to establish global and multi-sectoral alliances and multiple strategies as a means of breaking out of the present impasse in this matter.
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Land Tenure Systems and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa

Reports & Research
January, 2003
Southern Africa
women
land rights

This study was commissioned to review the current land tenure systems in selected countries in southern Africa, to identify constraints and opportunities relating to tenure security and improvements in women’s land rights and to recommend strategies to alleviate problems.
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Aid in Support of Women's Economic Empowerment

New OECD publication "Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment"

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (pdf, 1.5MB) published in March 2011, presents statistics on aid from DAC members to sectors focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment for the period 2008-2009.

The Global Donor Platform OECD focal point, Karim Hussein, points out that page 5 of this new publication reviews agriculture and rural development and interestingly showed that only 5% of DAC donor aid for agricultural inputs had a gender equality focus.

Main findings
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The SOFA Report 2011: “Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development”

Reports & Research
January, 2011
women
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
The SOFA Report 2011: “Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development” (User:Wikigender, 15:02, 17 March 2011)
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

Adopted at the 16th plenary meeting, on 15 September 1995, at the Fourth World Conference on Women "Action for Equality, Development and Peace"

UN Resolutions
January, 1996
Global
women
gender equity in access to land
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Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Women and Customary Land Rights

Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Women and Customary Land Rights

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Africa
Land & Investments
local communities
women
landlessness
land rights
land grabbing
property law
common property
rural development
land governance
land policies
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
environment
This lesson brief explores the struggles women face in benefiting from their customary rights. It is part of the Uganda module on the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.
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Reconciling Living Customary Law and Democratic Decentralisation to Ensure Women's Land Rights Security

PLAAS Policy Brief 32

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2010
South Africa
women
land rights
land policies
gender equity in access to land
The recent Constitutional Court judgment rendering the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) unconstitutional (Tongoane and Others v Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others) must not be allowed to throw decentralisation policy making into disarray. Decentralisation holds much potential for lively, participatory democratic law making and enforcement, through which rural women can gain greater power and secure more rights.
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Communiqué of the African Women's Land Rights Conference

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Africa
Land & Gender
land rights
women
We, the participants in the African Women’s Land Rights Conference committed to advancing women´s rights, having met in Nairobi from the 30^thof May to 2^nd of June 2011 to inform and review the progress made in the advancement of women’s rights to land, property and freedom from sexual and gender based violence.
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Asian Regional Workshop on Women and Land Rights

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Asia
women
land rights
Last 25-26 October 2010, the Association for Land Reform and Rural Development (ALRD), the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) and the International Land Coalition (ILC) jointly organised this Regional Workshop on Women and Land Rights, as a response to the urgent need to cast the spotlight on women and their access to and ownership of land. The objectives of the workshop were identifying strategic areas and developing a road map for 2011-2012, to strengthen ILC Asia’s work on women’s land rights.