"Once you get out, you lose everything" : women and matrimonial property rights in Kenya /
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| Author / Creator: | Nnoko-Mewanu, Juliana, author. |
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| Imprint: | [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2020] ©2020 |
| Description: | 64 pages ; 27 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12397667 |
| Related Items: | Online version:
"Once you get out, you lose everything": women and matrimonial property rights in Kenya. |
| Summary: | Key recommendations -- Methodology -- Background to the 2013 Matrimonial Property Act -- Legal and judicial barriers to equitable property distribution -- Barriers to courts and access to justice -- Applicable regional and international standards -- Recommendations."Kenya has come a long way in recognizing equality between married women and married men, and in addressing equal property rights through extensive legal reforms. But, for all the relative progress its laws represent on paper, challenges in implementation abound, leaving many women without the protection of the law to claim their matrimonial property. [This report] documents the limits of these legal protections. The report shows how a confluence of ambiguous and antiquated laws, and discriminatory social and cultural norms undermine equal rights to matrimonial property for married, divorced, separated, and widowed women in Kakamega and Kilifi counties."--Back cover |
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| Item Description: | Co-published with FIDA-Kenya. "June 2020"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu, researcher on women and land in the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch"--Page 64. "The report show how a confluence of ambiguous and antiquated laws, and discriminatory social and cultural norms undermine equal rights to matrimonial property for married, divorced, separated, and widowed women in Kakamega and Kilifi counties"--Back cover. |
| Physical Description: | 64 pages ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781623138332 1623138337 |