SECTION II - RELEVANT ARTICLES
Listed below are links to articles, essays and documents on the web. These are listed alphabetically, as per the title. If you are looking for a particular article, please note that article, essay titles beginning with 'the', 'an', or 'a' are listed according to the second word of such titles. Please click on the links below to view articles with titles beginning with that letter.| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
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1. Activities Done Under Educational Campagin on Women's Rights to Land, Property Ownership and Inheritance
Date: July 2001
Source: Women's Advancement Trust (WAT)
http://www.wat.kabissa.org/landact.html
2. African Unification Front (some information on land issues is provided in the article below)
Date: Spring 2002
PO Box 12062 (00400)
Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.africanfront.com/land_issues.php
1. Brainstorming/Planning Kenya Land Alliance Workshop on Land Policy and Land Law Reforms in Kenya
Source: Oxfam GB in Kenya (Ada Mwangola, Programme Coordinator, Sustainable Livelihoods)
Summary: Contains overview of the land reform process in Kenya and brief summaries of presentations made on: key elements and guiding principles in formulating land policy; political, economic, social and cultural issues on the land policy and land law reform process; implications of gearing the formulation of land policy and land laws as a stimulus for agricultural productivity; gaps, conflicts, contradictions, overlaps and inconsistencies in the existing land laws and what needs to be done in land legal reform. Concludes with an overview of the issues emanating and those that will be addressed (land policy, land laws, property regime, constitutional land policies).
Date: 22-23 February 2001
Download the full paper (35K.rtf file)
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/KLA Mach.rtf
Campaign for Women's Equal Rights OF Access to Land, Property Ownership and Inheritance
Source: Women Advancement Trust (WAT)
http://www.wat.kabissa.org/landrts.htm
1. Eastern and Southern Africa: Women and Land Issues
http://www.ifad.org/media/pack/market/8.pdf
2. The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)
http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/2000.html
3. Empowering Women to Protect the Land
http://www.earthaction.org/en/archive/01-01-des/background.html
1. 2000 Gender and Development in Thailand: Women's Participation in Economic Activities
http://www.unifem-eseasia.org/TechPapers/GenderDevelopment2000/gendersectionb2.htm
2. A Gender and Development Newsletter for Southern Africa
Contact:widsaa@sardc.net
http://www.sardc.net/widsaa/gadexchange/2001/iss23/acquisitions.cfm
3. Gender Bias: Roadblock to Sustainable Development
Source: Jodi L. Jacobson, WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE
Website: http://www.worldwatch@igc.apc.org
http://eserver.org/feminism/gender-bias-causes-poverty.txt
4. Gender, Land and Fertility-Women's Access to Land and Security of Tenure
Date: March 1996
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/Wpdirect/Wpan0001.htm
5. Gender, rural, fertility/mortality and land tenure
November 1995
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
Cables: FOODAGRI ROME
Telex: 625852 FAO I / 625853 FAO I / 610181 FAO I
Facsimile: 52253152
Telephone: 5225
http://193.43.36.46/DOCREP/x0252e/x0252e02.htm#P329_35442
6. Gender sensitive issues in irrigation
Date: 1998
http://www.irc.nl/products/publications/ajw/v8n23.html
1. The Impact of the Presumption that ‘Women do not Own Land’ and the Uganda Land Act
Source: Oxfam GB (Judy Adoko, Programme Coordinator, Uganda)
Summary: Argues that using customary tenure as a basis for protecting women’s rights may be more effective than lobbying for reinsertion of the ‘lost’ coownership clause in the Uganda Land Act.
Date: April 2000
Download the full paper (11K .rtf file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/Ugcoown.rtf
2. Impact of New World Trade Regime on Peasant Women in the Philippines
Date Unknown
Source: Third World Network
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/regime-cn.htm
3. Include Women in Land Reform
Date: June 2000
Source: YWCA of Zimbabwe
http://www.worldywca.org/common_concern/june%202000/zimbabwe.html
4. The Invisible Work Force: Women in the Traditional Farming
Systems of Kerala, Southern India
Date: 1994
Source: Darley Jose and N.Shanmugaratnam
http://www.skk.uit.no/WW99/papers/Jose_Darley.pdf
1. Land and Poverty in Rwanda
Source: National University of Rwanda (Herman Musahara)
Summary: Paper for a LandNet Rwanda workshop. Contains a conceptual framework on land and poverty; land attributes and the seeds of poverty including tenure issues; critical challenges to policy makers. Includes a descriptive summary of land problems from a recent university survey. Argues that land policies are fragile when mechanistically determined from the top, and need to involve the people in arbitration of disputes. Concludes that there can be no answer to poverty that does not take account of land.
Date: 22-23 November 2001
Download the full paper (164K.rtf file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/PovLand.rtf
2. Land and Gender Justice The Roots of Sustainability: An International Agenda
Date: August 2000
http://www.horeb.pcusa.org/peacemaking/sustdevart.htm
3. Land Ownership by Gender
Date: Unknown
http://www.aae.wisc.edu/aae462/l27tab00.pdf
4. Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title
Date: January 1995
Native Title Research Unit
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/rsrch/ntru/ntpapers/ip06web.pdf
5. Land Use and Gender in Tanzania
By: Lucy Tesha, Women Advancement Trust
Email: wat@ud.co.tz
http://tanzania.fes-international.de/Activities/Docs/landuse.html
6. Land Tenure reform and the balance of power in eastern and southern Africa
http://www.odi.org.uk/nrp/58.html
7. Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in ECA Countries
Prepared for The World Bank Group, Europe and Central Asia Regional Office
November 25, 1998
Report
1. The Meru Bean War: Cash Crop Worse For Women
Posted: July, 2001
http://www.panos.org.uk/news/July2001/Frenchbean.htm"
1. The National Land Tenure Conference Resolutions
November 30, 2001
http://www.gov.za/reports/2001/sibanda.pdf
1. Oxfam GB Statement [Press Release] on Security of Tenure for Women in Uganda
Source: Oxfam GB in Uganda (Judy Adoko, Programme Coordinator)
Summary: Examines changes in management of customary tenure and how these have made women's access to land more vulnerable. Recommends strategies for empowering women to have secure access rights and increase their tenure security. Seeks a compromise between policy makers and women activists on the current co-ownership debate. Argues that the family unit should become the unit of ownership under customary tenure and that all those who derive livelihoods should be registered on the title of ownership. This would mean that women and men would not divide the land but each would have the right to refuse the sale of the land.
Date: 22 December 2000
Download the full paper (11K.rtf file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/Ugsecten.rtf
1. The Problems of Displaced and Returnee Women faced with Current Land Tenure Policies in Burundi
Source: UNIFEM (Sabine Sabimbona)
Summary: Examines the situation of ongoing crisis in Burundi, the socio-economic characteristics of displaced and refugee women, numbers of displaced and returnee women, and the state of inheritance. Concludes that customary inheritance law should follow the same evolution as civil law and recognise the right of daughters to inherit property in the same way as brothers.
Date: February 1998
Download the full paper (50K.rtf file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/Buruten.rtf"
2. Promoting Equitable Development for Women Farmworkers
Date: Unknown
Ms. Alida van de Merwe
Centre for Rural Legal Studies
P.O. Box 1169, Stellenbosch 7599
South Africa
Tel: 27-21-883-8032; Fax: 27-21-886-5076
Email: Rulegstu@iafrica.com
http://www.cedpa.org/publications/PROWID/AFRICA/crls_rib.pdf
1. Rural African Women Suffer Multiple Discrimination
Date: December 2001
http://www.nscentre.org/tvmonthly/women/women55_1.htm
1. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS: The persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/4wcw/dpa-017.html
1. Ugandan Women Seek Right to Own Land
Run Date: 08/30/01
Women's Enews
146 W. 29th Street, 7R
New York NY 10001
The Editors: editors@womensenews.org
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/635/context/archive
2. UGANDA WOMEN’S NETWORK (UWONET) article
Date: December 2000
http://www.mwengo.org/land/Features-Dec00-1.doc
3. UNDP'S ROLE IN POVERTY ERADICATION: MANDATE, ACTION, ACHIEVEMENTS
Date Unknown
http://www.undp.org.fj/Docs/POV_role.htm
1. Women’s Access to Land and Property Rights in Eritrea
Date: February 1998
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/Eritprop.rtf
2. Women’s Access to Land in Rwanda
Source: RISD (Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development)
Summary: Closing statement from workshop on culture, practice and law: women's access to land in Rwanda. Contains recommendatiuons on the marriage problem, the inheritance law, land scarcity and population growth, the land policy and the bill, the environment, discrimination.
Date: 24-5 April 2001
Download the full paper (34K.rtf file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/Rwawomen.rtf
3. Women’s Access to Land in Zambia
Date: November 2000
Prepared by Bonnie Keller
Rolandstr. 101
50677 Köln, Germany
tel/fax: +49 221 38 16 58
Email:BonnieKeller@compuserve.com
http://www.swedesurvey.se/projects/WAtL/report_on_zambia_2000.pdf
4. Women's Action 17.1
Update: August 2000
Equality Now, P.O. Box 20646, Columbus Circle Station, New York, NY 10023, USA
Equality Now, Africa Regional Office, P.O. Box 2018 KNH, Nairobi, KENYA
http://www.equalitynow.org/action_eng_17_1.html
5. WOMEN AND LAND RIGHTS: Gain by the Gender Task Force on Land Bill
(1998 Land Acts) - A Brief Report Prepared by Tanzania Home Economics
Association (TAHEA)
http://www.wat.kabissa.org/landrts.htm
6. Women and the right to adequate housing and to land and property
Date: August 1997
Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/afcc6a92e0713b38c1256633002be2e9?Opendocument
7. Women and the Economy
Date: Unknown
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/session/presskit/fs6.htm
8. Women’s Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership : IMPLICATIONS FOR TREE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN WESTERN GHANA
Date: February 1999
Source: Food Consumption and Nutrition Division
International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006 U.S.A.
Tel: (202) 862–5600
Fax: (202) 467–4439
http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/checknames.cfm/dp58.pdf?name=dp58.pdf&direc=d:%5Cwebs%5Cifpri%5Cdivs%5Cfcnd%5Cdp%5Cpapers
9. Women’s Land Tenure Situation
Date: Unknown
http://www.gtz.de/orboden/tenure/te_inh.htm
10. Women Need Support to Break Vicious Cycle of Environmental Degradation, Poverty, Poor Health and High Fertility
Date: 2001
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2001/presskit/english/womenen.htm
11. Women Not Seen as Citizens of the World, Say Activists
Date unknown
http://www.ms-dan.dk/Kampagner/Solidaritet2000/wahome/judith4.htm
12. Women’s Property Rights and the Land Question in Rwanda
Source: UNIFEM (UNHCR, Kigali)
Summary: Looks at property rights and returnees, the situation of women in relation to property rights, consequences of women’s lack of access to land, initiatives taken by national authorities to improve women’s property rights, and initiatives taken by UNHCR.
Date: February 1998
Download the full paper (36K.rtf file):
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/RwaHCR.rtf
13. WOMENS RIGHTS ADVOCACY: Promoting Women's Economic Rights
Source: International Human Rights Law Group
1200 18th Street NW
Suite 602
Washington DC 20036
202.822.4600 tel
202.822.4606 fax
Email: HumanRights@hrlawgroup.org
http://www.hrlawgroup.org/thematic_programs/womens_rights_advocacy/promoting_econ_rights.asp
14. Women Warn of African Food Crisis
Posted to the web October 30, 2001
Washington, DC office: (202) 546-0777.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200110300010.html
1. Zimbabwe Women Fight to Put Gender on the Land Agenda
Source and Date: The Guardian, January 06, 1999
http://www.newafrica.com/gender/articles/land_agenda.htm