Gender and Law
Author : Gita Gopal
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law and economic development
ISBN :
Author : Gita Gopal
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law and economic development
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Janet W. Kabeberi-Macharia
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Women
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Author : Njeri Karuru
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Marjolein Benschop
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Housing
ISBN : 9789211316636
Author : Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821395343
This book provides compelling evidence from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries that gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed in terms of substance, enforcement, awareness, and access if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa are to continue to expand.
Author : Birgit Englert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847016111
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Author : Beverley B. Brown
Publisher :
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Women
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Author : Gita Gopal
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780821345665
The impetus for change in African legal reform is coming primarily from African women themselves, as they respond to their personal and practical experiences with the law. Top-down imposition of norms has not worked; if legal reform is to lead to sustainable equity for women, the voices of these women must be heard. Given that previous efforts to ensure greater equity in personal laws have not been fully successful in eastern African countries, any new legal initiatives must not repeat the mistakes of the past. Law must not again remain merely on the books as a legitimizing tool that reinforces or supports gender discrimination, but must actively protect and guard the interests of both men and women. This paper attempts to draw out some possible lessons from past experience to inform new efforts at legal reform in these countries. It examines the laws related to allocation of economic resources within households in the broader historical, social, and cultural context in some of these countries, and examines the effectiveness of these laws in challenging gender relationships.
Author : Gita Gopal
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780821342060
The global recognition of the unjust discrimination and violence that women, particularly women in developing countries, have been subjected has led to the adoption of numerous international legal instruments that underscored the importance of the human rights of women. This country report identifies Ethiopian laws that do not conform to internationally accepted standards. It also examines legal and regulatory reform as a critical tool for promoting gender-sensitive human development in Africa, highlights problems related to law enforcement mechanisms, and proposes alternative solutions.