Collective Care, collective Voice

A conversation about proven approaches to well-being for widows and their families to access justice across the life course

Across regions, widows demonstrate extraordinary strength, resilience, and leadership. However, many widows lack access to clear information about their legal rights and face barriers to exercising existing legal protections. Harmful cultural practices, discriminatory inheritance laws, weak enforcement of legal frameworks, and persistent stigma continue to undermine widows’ security and agency, even where protections formally exist. Strengthening rights awareness, empowering widows to use available legal instruments, and reinforcing the responsibilities of families, community leaders, and institutions are therefore essential to advancing justice and accountability for widows. This interactive session aims to provide a space for meaningful conversations interrogating ways to ensure the situation for widows is improved and highlighting how widows, when empowered, can become active agents of change.

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