Closing statement from workshop on culture, practice and law: women’s access to land in Rwanda. Contains recommendations on the marriage problem, the inheritance law, land scarcity and population growth, the land policy and the bill, the environment, discrimination.
In what ways does political transformation mean a change in meanings and practice of citizenship - in the relationships between individuals and the state? This paper discusses the experiences of women, particularly black women, of citizenship in South Africa, where the new administration promised a new politics based on civil society and universal citizenship.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Impulsar la igualdad de género en la tenencia de tierras empoderaría a las mujeres y les proporcionaría una mayor influencia en la toma de decisiones relativas al uso de la tierra.
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.
Hombres y mujeres en la historia rural de Colombia. 1930-1990.
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