the protocol also provides that a widow has the right to an equitable share in the inheritance ofthe property of her husband and that women and men have the right to inherit in equitable shares their parents properties art among other provisions they state that the african states are obliged to ensure equitable and nondiscriminatory access acquisition ownership inheritance and control of land and housing especially by women this includes the obligation to take measures to modify or prohibit harmful social cultural or other practices that prevent women and other members of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups from enjoying their rightto property particularly in relation to housing and land para no one shall be deprived of his possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by the general principles of international law