Essay: Single women and widows in Afghanistan are struggling to find their next meal under Taliban restrictions
In an article first published on The Conversation, NITYA RAO, of the University of East Anglia, looks at the growing hardships facing women in Afghanistan…
Nigerian widows end their case in the Netherlands against Shell
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsReuters A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday. “Obviously this is not without disappointment and frustration,” said lawyer Channa Samkalden […]
The Long Read: For widows in Africa, COVID-19 stole husbands, homes, future
KRISTA LARSON and CHINEDU ASADU, of Associated Press, report on the hardships facing widows in countries across Africa…
Afghan women’s hard-won land rights seen at risk under Taliban
Thomson Reuters Foundation The Taliban’s return to power threatens Afghan women’s hard-won property rights, with thousands who fled their homes during the militants’ takeover at particular risk of losing their land and houses for good, rights groups and researchers said. The Taliban imposed a strict Islamic law that largely denied women property rights during its […]
Pandemic upheaval creates ‘perfect storm’ for land rights abuses
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation From forced displacement to conflict over resources, the coronavirus pandemic has created a “perfect storm” for land rights abuses – and the situation is likely to worsen, researchers and activists warned on Thursday. The migration of men to rural areas due to lockdowns and job losses has increased competition over […]
From Brazil to Kenya, coronavirus widows lose their husbands and then their land
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Widows across the globe are being evicted, forced to give up property or to marry male relatives after their husbands die from the new coronavirus, land rights experts said on Tuesday. Women often only earn legal or socially recognised rights to land and property through a husband or father, which […]
AFGHANISTAN: AFTER FOUR DECADES OF WAR, WIDOWS BATTLE FOR HOMES
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the post-war struggle of widows to rebuild their lives…
Widows of suicide farmers to get land titles in Indian state
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Land titles of farmers who kill themselves in an Indian state will be given to their widows, according to a government order, granting inheritance equality in a nation where their property rights are often denied. A Maharashtra State Government order issued last week said the widows would also receive assistance with […]
GENDER EQUALITY: MALAWIAN WOMEN STRUGGLE FOR LAND RIGHTS
MADALITSO KATETA, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the struggle for land rights among women in the African nation of Malawi…
Traumatized widows in Kenya face ordeal of how to press on
Morning Star News One year after several Christian women lost their husbands to Islamic extremist attacks in coastal Kenya, they have few means of supporting their children. Gone is the non-governmental organisation aid initially offered to them at a camp for internally displaced people. The women, each with three to seven children, left the camp […]