Published in Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners
This article examines the efficacy of the 1998 Land Act in protecting women's right to land in Uganda. The Land Act introduced individual ownership to encourage a more productive use of land, based on the principles of economic liberalization. It converted customary ownership through the creation of written deeds. Traditionally, women's land use wa...
Published in The gender cg newsletter
This article discusses women's land rights in the context of the findings of the paper, "Women's Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership: Implications for Tree Resource Management in Western Ghana." The study showed that customary land tenure institutions have evolved toward individualized systems, which provide incentives to inve...
Published in Manushi
Many scholars take the view that personal laws of various communities are not subject to the constitution. Thus, the constitutional mandate of gender equality, which is to be found in articles 14 and 15 of the constitution, need not be taken into account by community-determined personal laws. The effect of such reasoning is that personal laws are g...
Published in The Earth times
The head of the UN Development Fund for Women's delegation at Habitat II, Achola Pala Okeyo, held a press conference to voice her concern that the women's nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) attending the conference were not receiving enough visibility. Issues raised at the press conference included the important role played by the NGOs in taking ...
Published in The Earth times
Several women's nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are working together to raise women's issues, such as land tenure rights, property rights, and inheritance rights, at Habitat II. The NGOs are also pointing out that because women have no control over property, they have difficulty getting loans from banks. Women's inferior status also means that...
Published in Habitat debate / UNCHS (Habitat), the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
This article discusses the gender issue of access to land and property by women. Women experience constraints to owning, inheriting, and using land. Laws, customs, and economics are factors that interfere with women's access to land and property. Women are forming groups and pooling their savings in order to buy land, or start an income generation ...
Published in People & the planet / IPPF, UNFPA, IUCN
It is time for women's environmental needs to be placed firmly on the agenda of the world's conferences. While connections were made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development between women's rights, economics, sustainable development, and environmental issues, the document being prepared for the Beijing Women's Conference r...
Published in World watch
The impact of economic development aid on women in the third world has generally been adverse, even though they are the core of food production and family economy. In the developing world, women provide 50% of the agricultural labor, and grow 80% of family food in Africa, 60% in Asia, and 46% in the Caribbean. They work 10-16 hours a day, foraging ...
