Our LandWise legal library represents the most comprehensive collection of laws and legal materials related to women’s land and resource rights.
During the month of October, we added new and updated laws and resources sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Fiji, Mozambique, and the Republic of Congo. We also added resources produced by our panelists that will be referenced during our upcoming webinar, What Works for Women on Collective Lands?
Webinar Resources: What Works for Women on Collective Lands?
- A stronger voice for women in local land governance: effective approaches in Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal (Sutz, P., Seigneret, A., Richard, M., Blankson Akapko, P., Alhassan, F., Fall, M.), 2019 [ENG]
- Group Ranches and the Community Land Act: Will We Correct Mistakes of the Past or Repeat Them? (Wakesho, E.), 2020 [ENG]
- How local rules can promote inclusive land governance in Tanzania (Richard, M., Sutz, P., Seigneret, A.), 2019 [ENG]
- Reality or a Pipe Dream?: Securing Women Rights in Community Land Registration in Kenya (Wakesho, E.), 2022 [ENG]
- Road to Securing Community Lands in Kenya (Wakesho, E.), 2020 [ENG]
- Routes to change: rural women’s voices in land, climate and market governance in sub-Saharan Africa (Sutz, P., Beauchamp, E., Bolin, A.), 2021 [ENG]
- Why simple solutions won’t secure African women’s land rights (Sutz, P.), 2012 [ENG]
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Fiji
- iTaukei Affairs Act (revised 2006), 1944 [ENG]
- iTaukei Lands Act (revised 2006), 1905 [ENG]
- iTaukei Land Trust Act (revised 2006), 1940 [ENG]
- iTaukei Land Trust (Lease and Licenses) Regulations, 1984 [ENG]
Mozambique
- Mozambique Investment Law Regulations (Decree No. 43/2009), 2009 [EN]
- Mozambique Land Law, 2004 [ENG]
- Mozambique Law on Forest and Wildlife Act (Act No. 10/99), 1999 [PT]
- National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (2018-2022), 2018 [ENG]
Republic of Congo
- Constitution of the Republic of Congo (rev. 2015), 2015 [ENG] [FR]
- Decree Determining the Terms of Protection of Cultural Property, Sacred Sites and Spiritual Sites of Indigenous Peoples (Decree No. 2019-200), 2019 [FR]
- Decree on the creation, powers and organization of the committee management and community development (Decree No. 2013-280), 2013 [FR]
- Decree relating to the administration of the district and the village (Decree No. 2010-792), 2010 [FR]
- Decree setting the procedures for consultation and participation of indigenous populations in socio-economic development projects and programs (Decree No. 2019-201), 2019 [FR]
- Decree Setting the Special Measures to Facilitate the Access of Indigenous Populations to Social and Health Services and to Protect their Pharmacopoeia (Decree No. 2019-202), 2019 [FR]
- Law Determining the Organization, Composition, and Functioning of the Advisory Council for Women (Law No. 14-2018), 2018 [FR]
- Law Establishing the National Land Cadaster (Law No. 52-2020) {National Land Register}, 2020 [FR]
- Law on General Principles Applicable to State-Owned Land and Tenure Regimes (Law No. 10-2004), 2004 [FR]
- Law on Land Ownership Regime (Law No. 17-2000) {Property Code}, 2000 [FR]
- Law on the powers, organization and functioning of the National Commission for Human Rights (Law No. 5-2003), 2003 [FR]
- Law Setting the Rules for the Occupation and Acquisition of Land (Law No. 21-2018), 2018 [FR]
- Promotion and Protection of Indigenous Peoples (Act No. 5-2011), 2011 [ENG]
- Republic of Congo Family Code (Law No. 073-84), 1984 [FR]
- Republic of Congo Forestry Code (Law No. 33-2020), 2020 [FR]
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