Widows' struggles in post-war Sri Lanka

This report documents the post-war struggle of women, mainly widows, from the fishing communities of Mannar, Sri Lanka, attempting to reconstruct their lives.

HIV-related stigma, asset inheritance and chronic poverty: vulnerability and resilience of widows and caregiving children and youth in Tanzania and Uganda

This paper develops a framework of risk and protective factors to conceptualise the relationship between HIV-related stigma, asset inheritance and chronic poverty among widows and caregiving children and youth in eastern Africa. Analysis of two qualitative studies with 85 participants in rural and urban areas of Tanzania and Uganda reveals that gendered and generational inequalities and stigmatisation sometimes led to property grabbing and chronic poverty. Human and social capital and preventative measures however may help widows and caregiving young people in HIV-affected households to safeguard land and other assets, within a wider supportive environment that seeks to tackle structural inequalities.

Standing up for widows

ELEVEN years ago, Debra Bateman's police officer husband was killed on duty. She chose to be strong.

Widows may have fewer social and financial problems than in the past (Interview von Shereen Lehman mit Prof. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello zu finanziellen und sozialen Problemen von Verwitweten)

(Reuters Health) – - A new Swiss study says that widows and widowers still mourn their spouses as much as ever, but compared to 35 years ago, everyday life is easier, especially for women. Widows, at least in Switzerland, have fewer financial troubles and more social connections than their counterparts in 1979, but widowers still complain of loneliness, researchers found.

Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on Charitable Agencies for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Soldiers and Sailors; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Our widows and orphans endowments. A study. Dedicated to the members of the I.O.B.B.,

Errata slip inserted.

The Suttees' cry to Britain : containing extracts from essays published in India and parliamentary papers on the burning of Hindoo widows : showing that the rite is not an integral part of the religion of the Hindoos, but a horrid custom, opposed to the Institutes of Menu, and a violation of every principle of justice and humanity /

Mode of access: Internet.

The charter, laws and regulations of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland.

Mode of access: Internet.

A second conference between an advocate and an opponent of the practice of burning widows alive : translated from the original Bengalee.

Mode of access: Internet.

The laws respecting women : as they regard their natural rights or their connections and conduct in which their interests and duties as daughters, wards, heiresses, spinsters, sisters, wives, widows, mothers, legatees, executrixes, &c. are obligations of parent and child and the condition of minors. The whole laid down according to the principles of the common and statute law...and the substance of the trial of Elizabeth, duchess dowager of Kingston on an indictment for bigamy before the House of peers, April 1776. In four books.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The whole duty of a woman, or, An infallible guide to the fair sex : containing rules, directions, and observations, for their conduct and behavior through all ages and circumstances of life, as virgins, wives, or widows : with ... rules and receipts in every kind of cookery ...

Pages 654-682 incorrectly numbered 664-692.