Record Item Year: 2012

Final Study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on Rural Women and the Right to Food
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Summary: The present study examines the right to food of rural women by underlining the international legal framework applicable to rural women, analysing the patterns of discrimination harming them, proposing strategies and policies for their legal protection and emphasizing good practices. The study has a special focus on female-headed households and temporary or seasonal workers.

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Gender Evaluation Criteria for Large-Scale Land Tools
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The Global Land Tool Network’s work to date on criteria for designing new, or evaluating existing, land tools from a gender perspective is presented in this brochure. The gender evaluation criteria framework explores how to judge whether a large-scale land tool is sufficiently gender-responsive, to identify where more work needs to be done, and possible entry-points to make a tool equally beneficial to women and men.

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