HIV and AIDS deny African women property rights

03/08/2008
HIV and AIDS deny African women property rights
ELDIS
Zimbabwe

Research from the Food and Agriculture Organization, in Zimbabwe, illustrates how forced evictions from marital homes are a new form of gender-based violence against women in southern and eastern Africa.

This form of abuse denies them their human rights to access shelter, livelihoods and property.

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