Record Item Year: 2011
Two Faces of Change: The Need for a Bi-Directional Approach to Improve Women’s Land Rights in Plural Legal Systems%3$s>
Executive Summary: The complex relationship between law, land rights and customary practices is increasingly recognized as foundational to formulating successful development policies. Similarly, the essential role of women’s economic participation in development and the current trend of gender discriminatory land and inheritance customary practices have prompted domestic civil society organizations in developing countries to use statutory provisions guaranteeing gender equality to improve women’s land tenure security. This chapter examines the particular need for secure land rights for women in the African pluralistic development context, and the mixed results of targeting law reform as a mechanism for change. Relying on primary […]
Land Acquisitions for Agribusiness in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges%3$s>
Summary: Includes study rationale and methodology; land acquisitions and agribusiness in Tanzania: a review of the literature; legal framework and the policy on land acquisition for agribusiness in Tanzania; acquisition of land for agribusiness in selected regions; emerging issues and way forward.
Contemporary Process of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Investors: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa%3$s>
Shandong Province Land Expropriation Administrative Measures%3$s>
Yunnan Province Land Registration Agency Measures%3$s>
Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned Land and Compensation%3$s>
Effective on Jan. 21, 2011. This item is in both English and Chinese.
Report on Major Results of the Third Wave Survey on The Social Status of Women in China%3$s>
The Progress of the Chinese Gender Awareness Reflected in the Transition from the Equality between Men and Women to the Gender Justice%3$s>
Abstract: “Mainstream gender awareness” is a global strategy decided by the United Nations for promoting sexy harmonious development. Gender awareness refers to find the adverse factor in society about the harmony of gender through sexy analysis. This article tries to prove a discourse turn from equality of men and women to gender justice by analyzing the background and their meanings to words of equality of two sexes and gender equality; therefore, to justice the Chinese gender awareness progress