We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. However, ...

Why and how do discussions about religious freedom and secularism coalesce around questions of gender and sexuality? What is the relationship between the regulation of gender and sexuality and the regulation of religion in modern secular societies?

Executive summary This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, Unidades ...

Where are the women? Towards gender equality in the ranger workforce Seager, Joni, Bowser, Gillian a

Family planning policies have been implemented around the world for decades, but with limited results. This is also the case in Tanzania where school dropout is a big problem and the majority of girls get pregnant by the age of 20. What are they doing wrong?

What supports the claim that corruption causes more suffering for women than men? By distinguishing between indirect victimisation and direct victimisation, ...

Reserved-seat quotas have been used worldwide as a measure to get more women in parliament. However, they are meant to be temporary until women can compete ...

The Women's Parliamentary Caucus: Promoting Cross-Party Substantive Representation Asiyati Lorraine

Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala Ra

The aim of the project is to examine the nature and causes of the increasing public religiosity of Muslim women of the Occupied Palestinian Territories ...

This is an evaluation of a three-year project implemented by a Malawian civil society organisation - Centre for Legal Assistance (CELA). It has sought ...

Jon Christian Møller, the Police Directorate’s section for international police cooperation, and Lisa-Marie Måseidvåg Selvik, ...

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Afghanistan, arguing that the Afghan state is fragile, and sustained through constant ...

The authors in this special issue on Democratization and Gender Quotas in Africa are in various ways exploring the long-term effects of processes of gendering ...

During the last couple of years there has been a series of seminar on the events related to the "Arab spring" in Yemen, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt ...

This report investigates child marriage in Algadaref State, located in Sudan’s eastern region. Child marriage is a human rights violation affecting ...

In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected or unrecorded ...

We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and ...

We read with interest the article by the GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators1 (Sept 16, p 1423), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the potential ...

The report of a government-appointed commission tasked with evaluating the Norwegian engagement in Afghanistan was presented this week. Entitled A Good ...