BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph

Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty / Banik, Dan (ed.), ix, 255 p.. - Farnham : Ashgate, 2008.

ISBN 978-0-7546-7498-6

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: Contents: Introduction, Dan Banik. PART 1: Conceptual Issues and Challenges:. 1. Rights, legal empowerment and poverty: an overview of the issues, by Dan Banik. 2. The political economy of legal empowerment of the poor, by Arjun Sengupta. 3. Legal empowerment as a new concept in development: translating good ideas into action, by Mona Elisabeth Brøther. PART 2: Promoting Access to Justice in Developing Countries:. 4. Constitutionalism in an insurgent state? Rethinking legal empowerment of the poor in a divided Bolivia, by John-Andrew McNeish. 5. Poverty, legal activism and development in rural China, by Susanne Brandtstädter. 6. The access to justice challenge in Uganda, by Donald Rukare. 7. Legal empowerment and the right to food, by Marc J. Cohen and Mary Ashby Brown. PART 3: Formalisation of Property Rights Revisited:. 8. Are Africans culturally unsuited to property rights and the rule of law? Some reflections based on the Tanzanian case, by Hernando de Soto. 9. Formalisation of land and housing tenure to empower the poor: simple nostrum or complex challenge?, by Edward Robbins. 10. The challenges of promoting legal empowerment in developing countries: women’s land ownership and inheritance rights in Malawi, by Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza. 11. 'Not on our land!' Peasants' struggle against forced land acquisition in India's West Bengal, by Kenneth Nielsen.

INDEX WORDS:
* fattigdom = poverty = köyhyys
* konstitutionalism = constitutionalism = valtiosääntöistäminen
* u-länder = developing countries = kehitysmaat
* rätt till föda = right to food = oikeus ravintoon
* äganderätt = right to property = omistusoikeus
* kvinnor = women = naiset
* arvsrätt = inheritance = perintö
* rättsfall/rättspraxis = cases/case law = oikeustapaukset/oikeuskäytäntö
* medborgarskap = citizenship = kansalaisuus
* mänskliga rättigheter = human rights = ihmisoikeudet
* landrättigheter = land ownership rights = maanomistusoikeus
* rätt till utveckling = right to development = oikeus kehitykseen
* rättsstatsprincip = rule of law = oikeusvaltioperiaate
* Världsbanken = World Bank = Maailmanpankki

GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Africa / Bolivia / Bangladesh / Brazil / China / India / Malawi / South Africa / Tanzania / Uganda / Zimbabwe

NOTE (GENERAL): UDHR; CRC; ICESCR; ICCPR;

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