The community-based study has three purposes: 1. Highlight the multitude of issues and challenges facing African women in relation to land and property. 2. Document the main strategies that grassroots women’s groups are using to help women attain justice, either by working within or influencing customary legal frameworks, or by assisting women to access the court system, in order to develop a cohesive series of strategies for grassroots women-led groups to use in achieving justice in relation to land and property. 3. Provide evidence that can be used to insert grassroots women’s perspectives and practices into the existing development discourse […]
Record Author: Brown, J
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Full citation: Brown, J. and Uvuza, J., “Women’s Land Rights in Rwanda: How can they be protected and strengthened as the Land Law is implemented?” 123 RDI REPORT (September 2006).