Rwanda’s laws provide opportunities for gender equity by granting equal inheritance rights to sons and daughters and protection of a surviving spouse’s and children’s rights to property. However, customary systems continue to govern over family and land matters and often discriminate...

Recent laws, including Mozambique’s Family Law and Land Law, provide important protection and opportunities for equitable property and inheritance rights, including for women in so-called de facto unions (cohabitation without marriage). A key policy debate in the revision of Mozambique’s...

Ugandan statutory law contains some progressive as well as constraining elements for the protection of spouses' and children's inheritance rights. Opportunities exist to address limitations through the revision of Uganda's Succession Act, and in allocating budget resources to implement...