An Act to govern the devolution of estates and establish rights of inheritance for spouses of both statutory and customary marriages, approved in 2003.
Record Topic: Customary Practices
Ghana Customary Marriage and Divorce (Registration) Law
South Africa Recognition of Customary Marriages Act
Ghana Marriage of Mohammedans Ordinance
Securing indigenous and community land rights in the future we want
iied Land acquisitions and rights | Policy and planning Blog on 24 March 2015
Reconsidering approaches to women’s land rights in sub-Saharan Africa
IIED Briefing
Who Owns the World’s Land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous and community land rights
The Praxis of Access: Gender in Myanmar’s National Land Use Policy
Land grabbing, conflict and agrarian‐environmental transformations: perspectives from East and Southeast Asia – Conference Paper No. 17
Legal pluralism and dynamic property rights
Full citation: Meinzen-Dick, R.S., and R. Pradhan. (2002). Legal pluralism and dynamic property rights. CAPRi Working Paper 22. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
Improving Land Tenure Security for Women: A Starting with Women Approach
By Kat Oak
Full citation: Hannay, L., & Scalise, E. (2014). Improving Land Tenure Security for Women: A Starting with Women Approach. D. Fletschner & H. Kamusiime (contributors). This paper discusses a pragmatic, adaptive framework and approach for understanding and taking action to strengthen women’s land tenure security in the context of customary tenure in northern Uganda. The project team developed a Women’s Land Rights Framework (“Framework”), which provided a specific definition of secure land rights. The Framework defines secure land rights in terms of five elements, which each serves as the basis for distinct, measurable indicators upon which to base the project […]