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2010-04-22 |
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Land Rights Education Empowers Kisarawe Women
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Dar Es Salaam — THERE is a significant sense of change among women's lives in Kisarawe following public education on their land rights, saving them from cultures and traditions which had confined them to the fence of family property.
Findings from this oldest district of 100 years with 76 villages and 15 wards...read
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2010-04-22 |
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Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to
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LILONGWE, Mar 9 (IPS) - Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case.
Gondwe’s brother-in-law took over the ownership of the ...read
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2010-04-15 |
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Reforms Must Address Land Inequality for Women
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A recent survey to assess gender sensitivity of land policy and land reform processes and their impact on women has revealed that due to the long registration processes most women, particularly in rural areas, resort to men whom they perceive to have the know-how and the time for their land transactions.
The study r...read
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2010-04-15 |
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Nothing Can Stop the African Woman… Ask Agathe
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ABIDJAN, March 8, 2010 --A baby girl loses her mother at birth. A few years later, she is “sold” into domestic labor by her own father. The richer family for which she works “pays” her regularly… with a whip. She is denied an education and can neither read nor write.
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2010-03-14 |
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Pass Marriage Bill Quickly
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Kampala — The First Lady, Janet Museveni, has called for the speedy passing of the marriage Bill.
"It is our hope that the law, which provides for co-ownership of property by spouses, will pave way for women to gain control over more resources to start bigger businesses in the commercial and manufacturing...read
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