Denial of inheritance rights for women under indigenous law : a violation of international human rights norms
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls are denied their right to inherit from their husbands and fathers as a result of the operation of the indigenous law rule of male primogeniture, in terms of which an heir must be male. This violates prohibitions on gender discrimination, as well as o...
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2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17502 |
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