INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISCRIMINATION AND THE LAW

Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership and the Alleviation of Women's Poverty in Nigeria : A Call for New Equities

This article outlines how land reform and reform of property rights could alleviate women’s poverty in Nigeria. Despite the prohibition of gender discrimination in the Nigerian Constitution and a prior effort at land reform under the Nigerian Land Use Act of 1978, customary law continues to exclude Nigerian women from land ownership. This deprivation prevents women from accessing the benefits of owning land.

Report on the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women, Beijing 1995

This is a descriptive note on the preparation for the Beijing conference and the final conference documents. Focusing on the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA), the author concludes that it is basically ineffectual as it contains no firm commitments, lacks formal legal status and fails to provide concrete targets or resources for implementation.