Women and their right to adequate housing 2012, para. 24
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Document type
Special Procedures' report
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As awareness has grown, many countries have taken steps to amend their laws to ensure that women and girls are able to inherit housing, land and property on an equal basis with men and boys. In Sierra Leone, for example, equality in matters of inheritance is now provided for by a 2007 law, while the Registration of Customary Marriages and Divorce Act of 2007 (amended in 2009) recognizes the right of women to acquire and dispose of property in their own right, and to enter into contracts.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Boys
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2012
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Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/53, para. 24.