Uganda's many small non-governmental groups also take a street-level approach to human rights, offering training to local leaders, policemen and prison warders on topics ranging from prisoners' rights to inheritance law.
The references to women in the Koran range from personal issues to the question of divorce, and from the law of inheritance to fidelity and partnership in marriage.
Yet Timur Kuran, a professor at America's Duke University, argues that the inheritance rules in Islamic family law may have slowed development in the past by making it harder to accumulate wealth.
And squabbles over inheritance are more frequent in common-law countries, where wills are more casually drawn up, says Leon Verstappen of the University of Groningen.
If so, the casualty would be Muslim family law, which governs marriage and inheritance for Muslims.
At least Mr Henderson, contemplating his awful inheritance, seems inclined to follow the first law of holes: stop digging.
If someone from one EU member states dies in an EU state that is not their home country, inheritance issues would be dealt with under the law of the member state where they last had their "place of habitual residence".
"It's a disgrace that at times of utmost distress in illness and death, gay partners find that families can use the law to exclude them from hospital visits, the graveside and inheritance, " she said.
Banking scholars also argue that Islamic law blocked indigenous financial modernization in Muslim countries because of an inheritance system that restrained capital accumulation, inhibitions on pooling resources that discouraged investment diversification, and a traditional aversion to the concept of legal personhood for corporations, which hampered the development of financial entities.
French law already allows civil unions for homosexual couples, but denies them full tax and inheritance rights.
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