Résultats de la recherche

1. Library Resource

   

   The Domestic Relations Bill in Uganda: Addressing Polygamy, Bride Price, Cohabitation, Marital Rape, and Female Genital Mutilation

   Rapports et recherches

   février, 2005

   Ouganda, Afrique australe, Afrique occidentale, Afrique orientale

   Terre et genre

   droit foncier

   The Domestic Relations Bill is a crucial piece of legislation for Ugandan women. It addresses women's property rights in marriage and women's right to negotiate sex, it sets the minimum age of marriage at eighteen, prohibits female genital mutilation (FGM) and criminalises widow inheritance. Bride price is still not prohibited, but the payment of bride price will no longer be essential for formalising customary marriages. The bill criminalises marital rape and provides for civil remedies, such as compensation and restricting orders.

2. Library Resource

   

   Landless women, hopeless women? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger

   Rapports et recherches

   janvier, 2006

   Niger, Afrique occidentale, Afrique centrale

   Terre et genre

   terre

   droit foncier

   femme

   This study aims to identify how women's capacity to become more involved in decision-making at the local level can be strengthened, particularly in terms of access to natural resources. It also aims to identify the structures through which women secure their systems of production. It focuses on the situation in Niger, where women are increasingly excluded from dominant systems of production: in agricultural areas, they are increasingly excluded from agricultural production and in pastoralist areas, they have lost their herds and had to resort to agriculture.