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access to up-to-date information on gender and land rights
Disparities
on land access
are one of the major causes for social and gender inequalities in rural
areas. Gender differentiated rights to land have implications on rural
food security and nutrition as well as on the wellbeing of rural
families and individuals. Learn more about the different factors that
relate to gender inequalities embedded in land rights.
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In
the Gender and Land Rights Database you will find country-level information
on the following six categories:
National
legal frame
· Rights entrenched
in the Constitution
· Women's property
and use rights in Civil Code, Labour Code, Family Code
· Inheritance legal
mechanisms
· Land Law
· Policies/Institutional
mechanisms enforcing or preventing women’s land rights
·CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women (adopted on 18/12/1979). Relevant
articles: 2, 4, 14 and 16.
·CEDAW-OP: Optional Protocol to the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (adopted on
06/10/1999).
·ICESCR: International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (adopted on 16/12/1966). Relevant articles:
2(2), 3 and 11(1).
·ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (adopted on 16/12/1966). Relevant articles: 2(1), 3, 14,
16 and 23(4).
·Other international regulations
·Customary norms, religious beliefs and social
practices that influence gender-differentiated land rights
·Traditional authorities and customary
institutions
·Inheritance/succession de facto practices
·Discrepancies/gaps between statutory and
customary laws
·Prevailing land tenure systems
·National and local institutions enforcing land
regulations
·Land administration institutions and women
quotas
·Funding provisions to guarantee women’s land
transactions
·Other factors influencing gender differentiated
land rights
·Civil society and indigenous people’s
organizations advocating for equality of land rights
·Local decision-making organizations and women’s
representation in them
·Legal Information and capacity development on
land rights
· Total
number of holders
· Women
holders
· Number of
holdings under co-ownership
· Common
property
· Number of
rural households headed by women
· GINI
Concentration index
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