‘We can’t even buy our own land’: the Tongan women pushing for change
Women are only permitted to lease land in the Pacific country as advocacy groups call for reform to the system
Ofa Ki Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki was attending a workshop on gender issues in Tonga many years ago when she came to a striking realisation: “If my father dies everything in our house, from the land to belongings, will automatically transfer to my brother.”
The 49-year-old went straight to her dad and said “if you die, I will inherit nothing. He looked at me with nothing to say, and I told him that it was really unfair.”
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