Full citation: UN Women. (2014). “Empowering Widows: An Overview of policies and programmes in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.” – This paper finds that strengthening engagement with civil society in the implementation of government programs results in a more enabling environment for widows to claim services, including land rights. Focus group discussions in India and Nepal showed that widows who were a part of this collaborative effort were more articulate, confident and aware of their rights. This played an important role in helping them claim their entitlements, including land rights. In Sri Lanka, widows have been able to take advantage […]
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A Land of My Own: Facts About Property Rights of Women in India
The attached document describes the critical nature of property rights for women and how these rights can enhance women’s dignity, security, and freedom.
Women’s Inheritance Rights to Land and Property in South Asia: A Study of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Nomadic Custodians: A Case for Securing Pastoralist Land Rights
New farmers’ movements in India as structural response and collective identity formation: The cases of the Shetkari Sanghatana and the BKU
Full citation: Staffan Lindberg (1994) New farmers’ movements in India as structural response and collective identity formation: The cases of the Shetkari Sanghatana and the BKU, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 21:3-4, 95-125.
India Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2005
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