The Battle After the War: Gender Discrimination in Property Rights and Post-Conflict Property Restitution

  • Sharanya Sai Mohan

Summary

Many legal systems around the world fail to protect property rights equally for men and women, leaving women dependent upon their husbands or male relatives to provide housing and land on which to subsist. Women’s limited access to property becomes especially damaging in post-conflict situations, when women displaced by war try to return to their homes and often find that they have lost any legal access to their former property.

Citation

Mohan, Sharanya Sai. “The Battle After the War: Gender Discrimination in Property Rights and Post-Conflict Property Restitution.” Yale Journal of International Law 36 (2011): 461–95.

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