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Law Reforms Which Promote Women’s Rights to Land and Property: Developments and Proposals in Namibia

This paper provides an overview of law reforms which promote women’s rights to land and property, based on developments and proposals under discussion in Namibia. The paper is structured around principles which could be incorporated into good practice guidelines.

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Reclaiming our Lives: HIV and AIDS, Women’s Land and Property Rights, and Livelihoods in Southern and East Africa

Abstract: Property-grabbing from widows and orphans began long before the HIV and AIDS pandemic. However, the scale of HIV infection rates, stigmatisation, and the social and economic vulnerability of widows and orphans have worsened the situation. Targets of psychological and physical harassment, dispossessed of their property and evicted form their homes, women and children are left destitute. Too often, the personal stories of both hardship and resilience in the face of adversity are lost in the statistics and dry overviews of national policies and epidemiological trends. Excluded from statistics, these women and children become invisible. This collection of narratives from […]

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