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【权利:3062】 Fwd: [GAD-in-China] 转发妇女土地权益在线数据库Fwd: Gender Gap in Land Rights Widespread - FAO Online Database



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GENDER GAP IN LAND RIGHTS WIDESPREAD - UN FAO ONLINE DATABASE
 
17 February 2010 – A new online database produced by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shines a light on how women lag far behind men in their access to land, major stumbling bock to rural development.

The Gender and Land Rights Database offers up-to-date information on the legal rights of men and women differ in nearly 80 countries, allowing users to find the total number of women landholders and rural households headed by women, among other statistics, in these nations.

In most of the world, there is a widespread gap between men and women in rates of ownership of agricultural land and access to income from land, even though women are major producers of food crops and play a key role in providing and caring for their households...........FULL ARTICLE - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33795&Cr=fao&Cr1=

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Information on Gender & Land Rights

This Database contains Country level information on social, economic, political and cultural issues related to the gender inequalities embedded in those rights.

Disparity on land access is one of the major causes for social and gender inequalities in rural areas, and it jeopardizes, as a consequence, rural food security as well as the wellbeing of individuals and families.

The Database offers information on the 6 following Categories:

National legal frame

·  Rights entrenched in the Constitution

·  Women's property and use rights in Civil Code, Labour Code, Family Code

·  Inheritance legal mechanisms

·  Land Law

·  Policies/Institutional mechanisms enforcing or preventing women's land rights

International treaties and conventions

·CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (adopted on 18/12/1979). Relevant articles: 2, 4, 14 and 16.

·CEDAW-OP: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (adopted on 06/10/1999).

·ICESCR: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (adopted on 16/12/1966). Relevant articles: 2(2), 3 and 11(1).

·ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (adopted on 16/12/1966). Relevant articles: 2(1), 3, 14, 16 and 23(4).

·Other international regulations

Customary law

·Customary norms, religious beliefs and social practices that influence gender-differentiated land rights

·Traditional authorities and customary institutions

·Inheritance/succession de facto practices

·Discrepancies/gaps between statutory and customary laws

Land tenure and related Institutions

·Prevailing land tenure systems

·National and local institutions enforcing land regulations

·Land administration institutions and quota of women

·Funding provisions to guarantee women's land transactions

·Other factors influencing gender differentiated land rights

Civil society organizations

·Civil society and indigenous people's organizations advocating for equality of land rights

·Local decision-making organizations and women's representation in them

·Legal Information and training on land rights

Selected Land Related Statistics

·Total number of holders

·Women holders

·Number of holdings under co-ownership

·Common property

·Number of rural households headed by women

·GINI Concentration index

You can choose between the 3 Types of Reports below

Full Country Report

Full Country Reports - including information on 24 Subjects

» Full Report on 24 Subjects

 

Topic Selection

Create Reports on 1 Category

» Create Reports on 1 Category

 

Comparative Report

Compare 2 or more Countries on a selected Subject

» Compare 2 or more Countries

 

 





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