Women S Property Rights Under Cedaw

Author : José E. Alvarez,Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of Law José E Alvarez,Judith Bauder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197751879

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Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW by José E. Alvarez,Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of Law José E Alvarez,Judith Bauder Pdf

For over 40 years, the leading international treaty body on women's rights, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the CEDAW Committee), has been generating jurisprudence interpreting CEDAW's obligations that states protect the equal rights of women. This book concludes that CEDAW's re-engendering of property--although a flawed and evolving work in progress--has the potential to be transformative for the half of the planet who is more likely to be treated as property than to have any.

Author : José E. Álvarez,Judith Bauder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
ISBN : 0197751903

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Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW by José E. Álvarez,Judith Bauder Pdf

"The gender gap with respect to wealth and property is a chasm. For over 40 years the leading international treaty on the rights of women, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), has been generating jurisprudence interpreting CEDAW's obligations demanding that states protect the equal rights of women as partners in recognized relationships, family rights more generally (including inheritance), rights to land, adequate housing (including for those subjected to domestic violence), financial credit, social benefits, intellectual property, and other economic rights dependent on equal access to justice. This book surveys and assesses the CEDAW Committee's General Recommendations, Views in response to communications, Concluding Observations in response to State reports, and Reports on Inquiries addressing these rights. It finds that the underlying jurisprudence is dramatically different from property protections under the international investment regime, is much more convergent with that under other international human rights regimes, but unique in its focus on addressing the underlying patriarchal structures, stereotypes, and forms of intersectional discrimination that have underpinned the impoverishment of women all around the world. It concludes that CEDAW's re-engendering of property, although a flawed work in progress, has the potential to be transformative"--

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472906458

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Women, Business and the Law by The World Bank Pdf

Women perform 66% of the world's work, produce 50% of the food, but earn 10% of the income and own 1% of the property. To shed light on why this grim statistic still holds true, Women, Business and the Law aims to examine legal differentiations on the basis of gender in 143 of the world's economies. Women, Business and the Law tracks governments' actions to expand economic opportunities for women across six key areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit and going to court. The report uncovers legal differentiations for women and married versus unmarried women such as being able to register a business, open a bank account and work at night. These issues are of fundamental importance. When, because of tradition, social taboos or simple prejudice, half of the world's population is prevented from making its contribution to the life of a nation, the economy will suffer. The empirical evidence does suggest that, slowly but surely, governments are making progress in expanding opportunities for women. It is our hope that data presented in Women, Business and the Law will both facilitate research on linkages between legal differentiation and outcomes for women, and promote better informed policy choices on what governments can do to expand opportunities for women.

Author : Meena Shivdas,Sarah Coleman
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 184929013X

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Without Prejudice by Meena Shivdas,Sarah Coleman Pdf

CEDAW - the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - is a powerful international human rights instrument that reflects a global determination to achieve gender equality. This book looks at the cultural and legal challenges relating to the implementation of CEDAW, and the individual approaches adopted.

Author : United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210579513

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Realizing Women’s Rights to Land and other Productive Resources by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

This publication provides detailed guidance for lawmakers and policymakers, as well as civil society organizations and other stakeholders, to support the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies and programmes to respect, protect and fulfil women’s rights to land and other productive resources. It is based on the results of an expert group meeting held in June 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland, where critical issues facing women today in relation to the enjoyment of their land rights were raised. Land itself can be understood to include farmland, wetland, pasture, rangeland, fishery, forest, as well as harvesting and hunting territories. Throughout this publication the phrase “women’s rights to land” must be understood holistically and in a manner which is grounded in the international human rights framework, and in the context of intersecting forms of discrimination. While this publication focuses on women’s rights to land, it is also recognized that land is inextricably linked to women’s access to, use of and control over other productive resources, such as property, fisheries, livestock and game. Therefore, the publication also uses the phrase “women’s rights to land and other productive resources” to reflect this broader context.

Author : Anne Hellum,Henriette Sinding Aasen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107276734

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Women's Human Rights by Anne Hellum,Henriette Sinding Aasen Pdf

As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in comparison and interaction with other equality and anti-discrimination mechanisms. The studies demonstrate how state and non-state actors have invoked, adopted or resisted the CEDAW and related instruments in different legal, political, economic and socio-cultural contexts, and how the various international, regional and national regimes have drawn inspiration and learned from each other.

Author : Sevi Simavi,Clare Manuel,Mark Blackden
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821380982

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Gender Dimensions of Investment Climate Reform by Sevi Simavi,Clare Manuel,Mark Blackden Pdf

The economic empowerment of women is increasingly seen as one of the most important forces behind economic growth and the fight against poverty. Indeed, women's economic participation in an economy as entrepreneurs, employees, and leaders is recognized as a measure of a country's dynamism and viability. 'Gender Dimensions of Investment Climate Reform' provides fresh solutions to common issues that women entrepreneurs face. It presents actionable, replicable, and scalable tools for promoting gender-sensitive investment climate reforms that would benefit both women and men. The book enables development practitioners and policy makers who are not gender specialists to diagnose gender issues in an investment climate; design creative and practical solutions and recommendations for addressing gender constraints; and monitor and evaluate the implementation of those recommendations.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052304394

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Gender and Access to Land by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This guide has been prepared to support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society who are involved in land access and land administration questions in rural development. It is designed to show where and why gender inclusion is important in projects and programmes that aim at improving land tenure and land administration arrangements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sex discrimination against women
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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KENYA DOUBLE STANDARDS: Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya by Anonim Pdf

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781464816536

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Women, Business and the Law 2021 by World Bank Pdf

Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. This year’s report updates all indicators as of October 1, 2020 and builds evidence of the links between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law 2021 makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. Prepared during a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, this edition also includes important findings on government responses to COVID-19 and pilot research related to childcare and women’s access to justice.

Author : Ben Chigara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136656248

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Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium by Ben Chigara Pdf

This book constitutes volume two of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. Following from volume one Southern African Development Community Land Issues, this book considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development Community States (SADC) that are currently mired up in land disputes that have become subject of domestic, regional and international tribunals. Chigara demonstrates that land relations in the SADC have always been, and will perhaps remain, a matter for constitutional regulation. Because constitutional laws are distinctive from other laws only by constitutional design, legal contests appear to be the least likely means for settlement in the sub-region. Only human rights inspired policies, that respond to the call for social justice by acknowledging both the current and the underlying contexts to the disputes, hold the most potential to resolve these disputes. The book recommends efficient pedagogical counter-apartheid-rule psychological distortions regarding the significance of human dignity (PECAPDISH) as a pre-requisite and corollary to the dismantling of the salient physical legacy of apartheid-rule in affected SADC States. The book shows that PECAPDISH’s potential and benefits would be enormous. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of Property and Conveyancing Law, Human Rights Law, and Land Law.

Author : Marjolein Benschop
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Housing
ISBN : 9211316634

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Rights and Reality by Marjolein Benschop Pdf

Author : Brian D. Lepard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108107938

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Reexamining Customary International Law by Brian D. Lepard Pdf

Reexamining Customary International Law takes on the complex issues and controversies surrounding the history, theory, and practice of customary international law as it reexamines customary law's increasingly important role in world affairs. It incorporates the expertise of distinguished authors to probe many difficult issues that remain unresolved concerning the doctrine of customary law. At the same time, this book engages in a profound exploration of the practical role of customary international law in a variety of important fields, including humanitarian law, human rights law, and air and space law.

Author : Oecd
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264535853

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Sigi 2019 Global Report by Oecd Pdf

Author : Marsha A. Freeman,Beate Rudolf,Christine Chinkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199565061

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The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women by Marsha A. Freeman,Beate Rudolf,Christine Chinkin Pdf

This is the first commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), analyzing the Convention article by article. Each chapter provides an overview of an article's negotiating history, interpretation, and all the relevant case law, including decisions and recommendations by the CEDAW Committee.