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A place to
live
women's inheritance rights in
Africa
A study of gender and housing in sub-Saharan Africa
Scholz, B.; Gomez, M. / Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) , 2005
This paper examines women's differential needs and challenges for obtaining housing. The report grew out of a consultative survey of women in 10 African countries, including interviews with individuals and members of government, and workshops with local experts. This short book comes from the longer report, and is written in an accessible style so that women, men and young people in Africa can read about what COHRE found, and what COHRE and other people fighting for rights to land and housing think should happen to make things better for women.
The report contains sections addressing questions including:
what are rights?
women’s rights
what are housing rights?
what is inheritance?
what African governments should do; what organisations can do
Case studies and examples come from countries including Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In addition to discussing the housing and land rights situations in these countries, the authors define technical language and jargon citizens might come across, lays out current issues in plain language, and makes recommendations for how to improve these situations.
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World Trade Centre
- Angola
Twin Towers Start Being Built In 2006
Luanda, July 23 - Two twin towers "World Trade Centre-Angola" will start being built as from January 2006, in the country`s capital, Luanda.
Speaking to Angop, the director of the Word Trade Centre-Angola project, Manuel Duque, said that the symbolic launching of the first stone for the execution of the project happens next September, stating that over 50 percent of financial resources for the start of the project is available.
According to the source, at the moment the project`s directors are in an advanced negotiation phase with governmental authorities of Luanda province, with the aim of legalising the land.
The buildings, with 32 floors, will have areas reserved for administration, hostelry, parking area, conference and commercial rooms, and other service of aid to businessmen.
The director said that the undertakings will help in promoting a sustained dialogue between Angola and other regions of the world, promotion and attraction of investments, in relations with specialised agencies of the government and business associations.
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Master
Program in
ADVANCED
ARCHITECTURE
The
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
(IAAC) is an international centre of education and research focused in architecture understood as a discipline that involve different scales from territorial analysis, urban developments, architectural projects, digital fabrications and informational environments.
Placed in
Barcelona, one of the international capitals of Urbanism, the institution develops a multidisciplinary program that explores urban and international territorial phenomena placing the accent in the opportunities that emerges from developing countries and cultural, economic and social values that architecture may contribute to society.
Some of the most important projects recently developed are The Media House Project, elaborated with the
MIT's Media Lab, the territorial research project
Hipercatalunya, featured in Macba Barcelona, and the Transamericana project performed in Brazil.
The IAAC extends educative programs linked to the Advanced Architecture Master,
lead by Vicente Guallart
and Manuel Gausa, in collaboration with the
Fundación Politecnica de Catalunya.
In addition to research programs and international projects the agenda is completed with lectures, excursions, exhibitions, publications and competitions.
This year the Master of Advanced architecture topic is Fast Asia / Asia 2005-2006:
"Fast economic growth vs. fast city growth in
Asia". The program ends with an Excursion for all students supported by the IAAC to the area of study, this year, a country of Asia.
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 81 baixos, Poble Nou
08005 Barcelona, Spain
fax 93 300 43 33
contact@iaacat.com
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