WUNRN
The Landesa
Center for Women's Land Rights has just launched LandWise, a
free online resource containing land-related laws, information about relevant
customary practices, and explanatory materials. LandWise is an important new
tool for policymakers, researchers, legal practitioners, and women's advocates
working to strengthen women's land rights around the world.
Welcome to LandWise!
We strive to provide users with up-to-date family laws from around the
world. Please help us improve our library by contributing any family laws that
you have. You can upload suggested materials here.
Also, help us make this website more useful by providing us with your
feedback and suggestions. Just click on the grey “Feedback” button on the lower
right hand side of the screen.
Sincerely,
The LCWLR
Featured Resources
We recently added three Practice Guides. To view these materials click here.
To get a quick overview of the types of materials available in our database click here.
About
The
An initiative of the LCWLR, LandWise empowers policymakers, researchers,
legal practitioners, and women’s advocates to strengthen women’s land
rights around the world through access to relevant and reliable
information. LandWise is a free online resource connecting users to legal
materials, information about relevant customary practices, and explanatory
materials.
How to Use the Practice Guides and the LandWise
Database
LandWise is a database containing legal materials and articles about
women's land rights. The Practice Guides are intended to help users make use of
the materials they locate within LandWise.
We suggest that new users start with the Practice Guide The Research Process.
Because LandWise is in its early stages, we do not have all of the legal
materials and articles that many researchers will need to conduct their work.
By reviewing The Research
Process users can identify other sources for locating legal
materials and other resources. Once users have located the relevant materials
they will want to review the different subject-specific Practice Guides that
will help them analyze and understand the materials they've located.
Below is one possible step-by-step approach to using this site:
All of the Practice Guides are available here.
Collection Development
LandWise is a work in progress and we are adding to our database on an
ongoing basis. Our initial collection efforts focused on
We update our database regularly but cannot guarantee that all laws are
the most recent versions. Please contact us
if you have updated information.
Language and Translations
Many of the legal materials in the LandWise database are English
translations of laws. Unless otherwise specified by the applicable
government/legal jurisdiction, translations are not official versions of the
laws and users should be careful when using translated materials. We collect
and provide access to materials in many different languages; however, at this
time we cannot provide English translations for all non-English laws.
Full-Text Availability
We strive to make as many full-text materials available as possible.
However, some useful resources are copyright protected and we cannot provide
free access to full-text copies. In the case of copyright protected articles,
we provide a citation and a brief summary of the article and then link users to
the source where they can purchase the article.
Dislaimers
The information contained in this website is general legal information
and should not be construed as legal advice to be applied to any specific
factual situation. The information contained in LandWise cannot replace the
advice of competent legal counsel licensed in your jurisdiction.