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Book Chapter | 2017

Women’s rights and the women’s movement in Sudan (1952-2014)

Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen (2017)
in Balghis Badri and Aili Marie Tripp : Women's activism in Africa. Zed books
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http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo26260386.html
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Liv Tønnessen

Research Professor/Director of Center on Law and Social Transformation
  • liv.tonnessen@cmi.no
  • +47 90224104

ARUSS: Assisting regional universities in Sudan and South Sudan

Dec 2013 - Dec 2017

Engineering gender equality: The effects of aid to women's political representation

Jan 2014 - Dec 2017
  • Gender
  • Rights and Legal Institutions
  • Sudan
  • Law reform
  • Women's movement
  • Islamic law
  • Islamization

Also from this project:

Journal Article | 2023

Explaining Backlash: Social Hierarchy and Men's Rejection of Women’s Rights Reforms

Lindsay Benstead, Ragnhild Muriaas, Vibeke Wang

Social Politics

Journal Article | 2021

Why party allegiance matters: Affirmative action positioning among electoral candidates in Zambia

Vibeke Wang, Ragnhild Muriaas, Yvette Peters

Journal of Modern African Studies

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Blog post | Dec 2025

Sudan’s protesters built networks to fight a tyrant – today they save lives in a war

Aalen, Lovise and Azzam, Mai

Journal Article | Nov 2025

Political togetherness: pursuits for change among the protesting youth in Sudan 2018–2022

Mai Azzam and Lovise Aalen

Critical African Studies

CMI Brief | Nov 2025

Women’s activism in the context of militarization and war: Lessons from Sudan

Reem Abbas

Blog post | Nov 2025

Farming against the odds: How local synergies are sustaining agriculture amid conflict and displacement in Eastern Sudan

Hussein M. Sulieman

CMI Working Paper | Dec 2025

Does it matter what others think? Information, norms, and female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

Matthew Gichohi, Andreas Kotsadam, Mette Løvgren, Charlotte Ringdal, Espen Villanger

CMI Brief | Nov 2025

Navigating LGBTIQ+ advocacy and illegality: Lessons from Nigeria

Dr Ayodele Sogunro

Newspaper Op-Ed | Oct 2025

Skeive liv i skyggen av bistandskutt

Liv Tønnessen and Matthew Gichohi

Journal Article | Oct 2025

Abortion Within Reason or Right: Navigating Reproductive Governance and Abortion Stigma in Madagascar's Urban Central Highlands

Karine Aasgaard Jansen

Studies in Comparative International Development

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