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Exploring the relationship between democratization and quota policies in Africa
Exploring the relationship between democratization and quota policies in AfricaJournal Article | Nov 2013
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 ...
When women grow wings: Gender relations in the informal economy of Kampala
CMI Report | Jan 2003
In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected or unrecorded ...
Gender, urbanization, micro credit, taxation, Africa: Uganda
Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission Channels
Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission ChannelsJournal Article | Apr 2018
We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and ...
Jobs, employment, poverty, food security, empowerment, , Ethiopia
Afghanistan: A Political Economy Analysis
Report in External Series | Jan 2017
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Afghanistan, arguing that the Afghan state is fragile, and sustained through constant ...
Tønnessen Liv
Tønnessen LivResearch Director
Political scientist researching women, politics and Islam in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Gender politics, women's movements, legal reform, sexual and reproductive rights, gender based violence, family law, Sudan
Gendering Faith
Gendering FaithProject | Mar 2011 - Mar 2014
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 ...
Palestine, Islamism, Women, Religion, Gender, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Israel
Traditional, but changing, cultural norms: Rural community views on child marriage in Algadaref State, Sudan
Traditional, but changing, cultural norms: Rural community views on child marriage in Algadaref State, SudanSudan Report | Dec 2017
This report investigates child marriage in Algadaref State, located in Sudan’s eastern region.
Child marriage is a human rights violation affecting ...
child marriage, cultural norms, rural community, Algadaref, Sudan
Bleak prospects for Afghanistan
News | 10 Jun 2016
The report of a government-appointed commission tasked with evaluating the Norwegian engagement in Afghanistan was presented this week. Entitled A Good ...
Evaluation of project on prison conditions in Malawi
Evaluation of project on prison conditions in MalawiProject | Oct - Nov 2014
This is an evaluation of a three-year project implemented by a Malawian civil society organisation - Centre for Legal Assistance (CELA). It has sought ...
Malawi, prison conditions, human rights, judiciary
Political determinants of sustainable development goals
Political determinants of sustainable development goalsJournal Article | Dec 2017
We read with interest the article by the GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators1 (Sept 16, p 1423), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the potential ...
Ask Karin
Ask KarinResearcher
Social anthropologist researching gender and migration patterns in South Asia
Gender identities, Plural law, Human Rights, Islam, Forced Migration, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Life upside down: Women and crises in the Middle East
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
Life upside down: Women and crises in the Middle East Nefissa Naguib nefissa naguib nefissa nagu
Curbing Women Activists in Darfur in the wake of the International Criminal Court
Curbing Women Activists in Darfur in the wake of the International Criminal CourtCMI Insight | Jan 2015
In 2009, the international criminal court (ICC) warranted the arrest of Sudan’s sitting President indicting him for systematic and widespread sexual ...
Women activists, Darfur, International criminal court, Sexual violence, Sudan
Gender and poverty in Mozambique
Gender and poverty in MozambiqueCMI Brief | Oct 2010
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are high on the government and donor agendas in Sub-Saharan Africa, but have largely failed to have an impact. ...
Mozambique, Gender, Poverty
Generosity and sharing among villagers: Do women give more?
Generosity and sharing among villagers: Do women give more?Journal Article | Aug 2015
This paper explores generosity among anonymous villagers and sharing within families using a dictator game field experiment that was carried out in rural ...
Dictator game, , Generosity, , Sharing, , Field experiment, , Ethiopia, , Africa
Operating in the shadow of the executive: Women's substantive representation in the Uganda Parliament
Doctoral Thesis | Nov 2013
Operating in the shadow of the executive: Women's substantive representation in the Uganda Parliame
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Female Circumcision
Female CircumcisionEvent | 3 Dec 2010
The Democracy and Rule of Law Programme at the University of Bergen and CMI has the pleasure to invite to a full-day seminar on Female Circumcision.
The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state
CMI Report | Jan 1991
The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state Kate Halvorsen CMI Repor
Tastes and fragrances from the old world: Memoirs by Egyptian Jewish women
Journal Article | Jan 2009
Tastes and fragrances from the old world: Memoirs by Egyptian Jewish women Nefissa Naguib Studies i
Women's role in agriculture: Present trends and potential for growth: A comment
Journal Article | Jan 1990
Women's role in agriculture: Present trends and potential for growth: A comment Armindo Miranda The