Women’s inheritance rights: Burundian custom challenged as a reason for exclusion
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Yaga Burundi
The article questions the use of custom to justify excluding women from inheritance in Burundi. It is part of the debate on their inheritance rights, according to Yaga Burundi.
The debate on women’s inheritance rights in Burundi is marked by challenges to the cultural argument used to justify their exclusion from inheritance, according to Yaga Burundi.
The media outlet says this argument may be put forward out of ignorance or in a misleading way. It argues that history, contemporary social realities and developments in the law call into question its use to exclude women from succession. In Burundi, Solange has been claiming her share of the family inheritance for fifteen years.
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