Property Rights

Citation:

Coll Agudelo, Alejandra. 2015. Acceso de las Mujeres a la Tierra: Realidades de la Restitutción y el Desarrollo Rural para las Mujeres en Santander, Antioquia y Cauca. Bogotá, Colombia: Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres y de la Corporación de Mujeres Ecofeminista, COMUNITAR.

Author: Alejandra Coll Agudelo

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Topics: Armed Conflict, Gender Roles, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Governance, Post-Conflict Governance, Indigenous, Rights, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Americas, South America Countries: Colombia

Year: 2015

Citation:

Blanco, Lara. 1997. "Las Políticas de Tierra en Centroamerica, una visión desde las mujeres." Perspectivas Rurales 4: 42-52.

Author: Lara Blanco

Topics: Civil Society, Economies, Economic Inequality, Gender, Women, Men, Gender Analysis, Gender Mainstreaming, Gendered Discourses, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Hierarchies, Gender Equality/Inequality, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Americas, Central America, South America

Year: 1997

Relevant Links: https://www.redib.org/recursos/Record/oai_articulo631982-politicas-tierra-centroamerica-vision-mujeres

Citation:

Anderson, Jeanine, Luisa Elvira Belaunde, Rita Bórquez, María del Rosario Castro, Julia Cuadro Falla, María Cuvi Sánchez, Alejandro Diez Hurtado, Karim Flores Mego, Elizabeth López Canelas, Flor Edilma Osorio and Patricia Ruiz Bravo. 2011. Mujer Rural: Cambios y persistencias en Ámerica Latina. Lima: Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales- CEPES.

Authors: Jeanine Anderson, Luisa Elvira Belaunde, Rita Bórquez, María del Rosario Castro, Julia Cuadro Falla, María Cuvi Sánchez, Alejandro Diez Hurtado, Karim Flores Mego, Elizabeth López Canelas, Flor Edilma Osorio, Patricia Ruiz Bravo

Topics: Armed Conflict, Civil Wars, Civil Society, Domestic Violence, Economies, Economic Inequality, Poverty, Extractive Industries, Feminisms, Gender, Women, Men, Masculinity/ies, Gender Roles, Gender Analysis, Femininity/ies, Gender-Based Violence, Gender Mainstreaming, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Hierarchies, Gender Equality/Inequality, Globalization, Health, Political Economies, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights, Security, Sexual Violence Regions: Americas, Central America, South America

Year: 2011

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Wambu, Charles K., and Moses Kindiki. 2015. “Gender Disparities in Water Resource Management Projects in Njoro Sub-County, Kenya.” International Journal of Social Science Studies 3 (2): 123–29. doi: 10.11114/ijsss.v3i2.703.

Authors: Charles K. Wambu, Moses Kindiki

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Gender disparities are of major concern, in water resources management because men and women play different roles and have different rights on water usage and it is important to take in account the interest of both genders into account. Njoro Sub-county is currently facing a serious problem of water scarcity as a result of several factors such as poor management, loss of forest cover, climatic variability, population increase, and limited endowment of the resource. Water being an economic good and a cost attached to its development, distribution, operation and maintenance there has been gender disparity in its management. Women are responsible for multiple uses of water resources and principal decision-makers regarding domestic uses and sharing responsibility with men for productive uses. However men often control this resource and make major decisions related to location and type of facilities available hence the need to investigate why women despite their vital stake in water affairs, they are frequently overlooked and under-represented in water policy decisions and in water projects committees. The argument in this paper is that gender disparities may have resulted in overexploitation and mismanagement of water resources. 

Keywords: gender disparities, water resource management, Gender, equity

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This paper analyzes the gendered factors to the planning and implementation of water resource projects and analyzed gender contribution in co-ordination and operation of water resource projects. The study paid specific attention to water management at the household level in the Njoro-Sub county of Kenya. While the women in the community played the largest role in household water collection and usage, men had the most say over water rights and distribution. The study found that most women in the community were barred from the water management and planning process due to cultural customs and traditional gender roles. Sustainable water management projects were not attained, leading to household water shortages that place greater burdens on women. The study concludes with recommendations on including women in water projects due to their extensive knowledge of water resources, along with incorporating women’s rights initiatives that respect the traditional expectations of the community. 

Topics: Development, Economies, Economic Inequality, Environment, Climate Change, Gender, Gender Roles, Gendered Discourses, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Infrastructure, Water & Sanitation, Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Kenya

Year: 2015

Citation:

Cronin, Aidan A., Pradeep K. Mehta, and Anjal Prakash, eds. 2015. Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes : Lessons from India. New Delhi, IND: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd. 

Authors: Aidan A. Cronin, Pradeep K. Mehta, Anjal Prakash

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This book fills the gaps in conceptual knowledge related to gender outcomes in water and sanitation issues. It illustrates how to get the desired gender outcomes in WASH programs by providing real-life case studies from different regions of India. The first section focuses on the Gender and WASH problem, forming a background for the case studies in India. Ways of incorporating gender dimensions in water management and in water and sanitation agendas in India are heavily explored here. The second section provides a contextual understanding of gender and WASH in India through basic facts, statistics, and anecdotes. The final section discusses women’s participation in the sanitation sector with a focus on developing innovative ways in which women’s role and participation can be up scaled. Through the case studies, the authors argue that the identification of vulnerable households can help in devising systems to reduce the hardships faced by women. Water governance was found to be limiting for women when the existing social dynamics of the region were not addressed. Current training programs of the Government of India were found to lack in having an approach to gender and equity in WASH. The book concludes by offering further thoughts on the “gender how?” question, while providing suggestions for further policy initiatives on gender in WASH. Such suggestions are highly centered on further research in the gender and hygiene field. 

Topics: Development, Economies, Economic Inequality, Gender, Masculinity/ies, Gender Roles, Gender Analysis, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Gender Hierarchies, Gender Equality/Inequality, Gender Equity, Health, Households, Infrastructure, Water & Sanitation, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: India

Year: 2015

Citation:

Bose, Christine E. 2011. “Eastern Sociological Society Presidential Address: Globalizing Gender Issues: Many Voices, Different Choices.” Sociological Forum 26 (4): 739-53.

Author: Christine E. Bose

Topics: Feminisms, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Globalization, Rights, Property Rights

Year: 2011

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Adelman, Sarah, and Amber Peterman. 2014. “Resettlement and Gender Dimensions of Land Rights in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda.” World Development 64: 583-96.

Authors: Sarah Adelman, Amber Peterman

Keywords: land rights, asset ownership, Gender, conflict, Africa, Uganda

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Topics: Displacement & Migration, Gender, Governance, Post-Conflict Governance, Households, Land Grabbing, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Uganda

Year: 2014

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Baitenmann, Helga, Victoria Chenaut, and Ann Varley, eds. 2007. Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Authors: Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, Ann Varley

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Table of Contents:

Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Law and Gender in Mexico: Defining the Field
Helga Baitenmann, Victoria Chenaut, and Ann Varley

Part II: Discourses on Law and Sexuality

Chapter 2: Love, Sex, and Gossip in Legal Cases from Namiquipa, Chihuahua
Ana M. Alonso

Chapter 3: Sins, Abnormality, and Rights: Gender and Sexuality in the Mexican Penal Codes
Yvonne Szasz

Chapter 4: Gender, The Realm Outside the Law: Transvestite Sex Work in Xalapa, Veracruz
Rosío Córdova Plaza

Part III: Gender at the Intersection of Law and Custom

Chapter 5: Women's Land Rights and Indigenous Autonomy in Chiapas: Interlegality and the Gendered Dynamics of National and Alternative Popular Legal Systems
Lynn Stephen

Chapter 6: Indigenous Women, Law, and Custom: Gender Ideologies in the Practice of Justice
María Teresa Sierra

Chapter 7: Indigenous Women and the Law: Prison as a Gendered Experience
Victoria Chenaut

Part IV: Legal Constructions of Marriage and the Family

Chapter 8: Domesticating the Law
Ann Varley

Chapter 9: Conflictive Marriage and Separation in a Rural Municipality in Central Mexico, 1970-2000
Soledad Gonzalez Montes

Chapter 10: The Archaeology of Gender in the New Agrarian Court Rulings
Helga Baitenmann

Part V: Legal Reform and the Politics of Gender

Chapter 11: The Politics of Abortion
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega

Chapter 12: Married Women's Property Rights in Mexico: A Comparative Latin American Perspective and Research Agenda
Carmen Diana Deere

Part VI: Afterword Thinking about Gender and Law in Mexico
Jane F. Collier

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors Index

Topics: Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Indigenous, International Law, Justice, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights, Sexuality Regions: Americas, North America Countries: Mexico

Year: 2007

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Vuniqi, Luljeta, and Sibel Halimi. 2011. Women’s Property Inheritance Rights in Kosovo. Kosovo: Kosovar for Gender Studies Center.

Authors: Luljeta Vuniqi, Sibel Halimi

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This paper addresses the challenges of establishing clearly defined and enforced property rights for women in Kosovo. It proceeds in three parts. The first section of the paper addresses women’s property rights in Kosovo from a comparative perspective, examining the situation of Kosovar women vis-à-vis women in other former Yugoslav republics. The second part of the paper examines why there is a gap between the egalitarian property law and unequal enforcement practices in Kosovo. The third part of the paper discusses the unique opportunity the Kosovar government has in this moment to shift from de jure articulation of egalitarian property rights to the de facto enforcement of them.

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“There are three important laws protecting women's property rights in Kosovo: the Law on Gender Equality; the Inheritance Law; and the Family Law. These three laws were passed by the Assembly in 2004 while Kosovo was under the supervision of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).” (11)

Topics: Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Governance, Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe Countries: Kosovo

Year: 2011

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United Nations Development Fund for Women. 2001. Women’s Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction: A Reader Based on the February 1998 Inter-Regional Consultation in Kigali, Rwanda. New York: UNIFEM.

Author: United Nations Development Fund for Women

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Women constitute the majority of small farmers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, in countries around the world, they continue to be denied the right to own the ground that they cultivate and on which they raise their families. This publication presents a diversity of views and experiences that describe the multiple strategies being used in countries worldwide to secure women's rights to land and property. Nowhere is the impact of unequal land rights more acutely felt than when women find themselves obliged to fend for themselves and their families as a result of conflicts which have cost them the husbands, brothers or fathers in whose name land and property was traditionally held and passed on. On returning home to the fields they used to work and the house they used to keep, women in many countries find themselves denied access, often by their former in-laws or neighbours. Without the security of a family home or the income and produce of their fields, women and their dependants may be pushed to the margins of society, further exacerbating their struggle to achieve health and well-being for their families and themselves. Against this sombre background, the unstinting efforts of women at all levels to keep families functioning in adversity, maintain community dialogue and sustain the fabric of social development, go largely unsung. Against all the odds, women continue to organise to address their livelihood and empowerment needs, and increasingly to champion their rights. They want a place at the peace table. And they are lobbying for new legislation that can enable them to acquire land, property and credit facilities with which to restart their lives. Above all, they recognise that conflict, with its attendant trauma and displacement, has also honed their existing skills and taught them new ones. As returnees from refugee situations - or something like that, they are not prepared to revert to the status quo ante but wish to capitalise on the changes brought about in adversity. 

Topics: Armed Conflict, Displacement & Migration, Refugees, Economies, Gender, Women, Livelihoods, Post-Conflict, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights

Year: 2001