Policy Makers Guide to Women’s Land, Property and Housing Rights
Across the World
Implementation of
women’s rights to land, property and housing rights remains
one of the more difficult challenges facing the world today.
One of the difficulties associated with developing effective
laws and policies on land rights stems from the immensely
complex and diverse ways by which land is accessed, and the
often gaping expanse between the position of formal laws and
the reality of women’s lives. Member States and the
international community have agreed upon a series of
commitments towards the establishment of security of tenure,
for example through the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7,
Target 11 on the improvement of the living conditions of slum
dwellers, and Target 10 on access to improved water and
sanitation. There is further political impetus and consensus
on promoting women’s security of tenure through equal rights
to land, property and inheritance through a host of
international human rights standards, and more recently
through the elaboration of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3
and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, where women’s land,
property and inheritance rights are seen as an important
indicator of women’s empowerment and human development.
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ISBN:
978-92-113-1901-9 ISSN: - Not available
- HS Number: HS/915/07E Pages: 42
Year: 2007 Themes: Housing rights, Land
& Tenure, Land and Housing Target Countries:
Branch/Office: Land, Tenure & Property
Administration
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