Rights
Child
Polygamy
managing their own property …”
varies widely across religions and cultures.
|
******* N e w s l e t t |
||
|
|
|
N°5 |
|
CONTENTS
Editorial
About
News
Recent
|
E
D I T O R I A L
This is the last e-newsletter for
this year. We hope that you have enjoyed receiving them.
As this is the traditional season
for gifts giving in our culture we are asking for any reader who can to support
WRI with a gift.
HOW YOU CAN HELP WRI
If you can give us
information about recent changes in
legislation in your country which protects widows from discrimination, or new
social policies which are aimed at supporting widows who live in poverty, this
is of great help to our research effort. Just send us an email with the
details.
If you can provide
us with really good statistics
about the number of widows in your country, whether they are in rural or urban
areas, and whether they are between 15-29, 30-59 or 60 and over, this is also
very useful information.
If you have good and detailed
information about struggles widows in your country are waging, or victories they
have won through the courts, please let us know. All this information is very
helpful for us in compiling our picture of the position and condition of widows
and what needs to be done by governments and international agencies to remedy
social injustices.
It you would like to help
us support more widows groups,
send us a donation, or ask us for a
gift aid declaration if you are a UK tax payer.
You can also log onto our website where there is a donation
facility.
Have a festive
season!
The
Trustees
A
B O U T W R
I
|
Widows’ q q q q q
Traditional Even
Widows *Child
WRI *
WRI
WRI · · · · · · ·
Financial *pioneering *activities *action *action
|
N
E W S F R O
M O U R PARTNERS
T
H E F I G H T I N
G F U N
D
Three years ago we set up The
Fighting Fund for Widows Rights with funds from the Swedish aid agency SIDA. The
idea for this came from listening to the stories told by participants at the
first international conference on widows rights which we organised in 2001. Although in many countries laws do
exist to protect widows from customary practices which deprive them of access to
land, property and a livelihood, it is usually very difficult for widows to get
legal protection. Our partners identified the need to have resources to help
widows challenge customary but often illegal practices as a priority.
To date we have three Fighting
Fund partners – one of them, WiDO in Nigeria, has developed an interesting and
innovative method of support for widows.
As soon as WiDO gets to hear of a
case of mistreatment of a widow, their Vanguard Team goes to her village and
starts to negotiate with the widow’s husband’s kin as to her rights to home,
childr
Categories: Releases
