Tajikistan-UNIFEM: Needs Assessment of Rural Women on Land Tenure Rights in Tajikistan
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 15, 2006
Tajikistan
UNIFEM: Needs
Assessment of Rural Women on
Land Tenure Rights
in Tajikistan
Specific
Questionnaires given to:
*Village
Leader
*Religious Leader
– Mullah
*Women’s
Group
*Households
Annexe
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The Questions for
Religion Leader
1.
How
did you become a village elder/religious leader?
2.
How
long have you been in this position?
3.
Do
families in the village bring disputes to you? Do they include disputes over
divorce and inheritance, and disputes over land?
4.
Do
women ever bring disputes to you?
• What type of disputes
(inheritance, divorce, abandonment, land disputes, etc.)?
• How often?
• If women bring disputes to
you rarely, why do you think that is?
• Do they usually come with a
lawyer, male relative, women friend, or by themselves?
5.
What
is your decision making process like?
• Is each side given the
opportunity to speak?
• Is the process
public?
• How is the final decision
made?
• Is the final decision
written?
6.
Do
women ever participate in dispute settlement?
7.
Do
women attend public meetings or religious meetings? If so, do they speak
out?
8.
When a
woman is divorced, does she have any rights to land that she has used with her
husband?
• Residential
• Arable
• Pasture
9.
When a
husband dies, what rights does his widow have to continue to use land he and his
family have been using?
• Residential
• Arable
• Pasture
10.
When a
father dies, is there any inheritance of land or buildings for his daughters?
Who does inherit, and in what proportions?
• Residential
• Arable
• Pasture
11.
If
someone who dies leave a will that says to whom his land or buildings should
pass, will it be honored? Will it be honored even if it goes against what is
seen as normal?
12.
What
do you base your decisions on? Written law? Customs?
13.
We
understand that there are more religious marriages these days, and fewer legal
marriages. Is that true in this village? If so, why?
14.
Does
this have a negative impact on the rights of the wife if her husband dies or
divorces her? What are her rights
in such a case?
15.
Do
people sometime appeal your decisions? If so, to whom do they
appeal?
Do
people prefer to get their disputes decided in the village, or by judges?
Why?
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