• Publicly condemn laws and customs that discriminate against women and strongly support efforts to realize women’s equal property rights in law and in practice. • Surviving spouses’ inheritance rights should not be terminated upon remarriage, pregnancy, or cohabitation. • Begin regularly gathering, analyzing, and using data on the extent of property grabbing by relatives of deceased husbands in order to track decreasing property grabbing through these initiatives. • Amend laws on civil and customary marriage, including the Married Persons Property Act, to adopt full community of property as the default marital property regime. • Provide the master of the high court’s offices with judicial discretion to waive fees for older, indigent petitioners in inheritance matters. To the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs • Abolish fees to change title of the marital home for inheritance purposes. • Provide a means-testing program for covering the costs of transportation to judicial and quasi-judicial institutions and other services for women requiring them. Or, alternatively, institute and publicly promote mobile courts to periodically preside in certain remote areas. • Implement reforms of the court system aimed at streamlining procedures to minimize burden on participants. • Recognize unregistered customary law unions as marriages with full rights equal to other marriage types. • Provide for establishing proof of marriage by means other than registration. • Protect the rights of women in all marriages, regardless of their registration status. • Investigate and punish cases of property grabbing. • Promote customs and practices that favor women’s equal rights to land and other assets, including through inheritance, and engage traditional leaders in discussions about interpretations of customary laws that recognize equality of men and women in line with the constitution. “YOU WILL GET NOTHING” 50