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Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in KhartoumJournal Article | Nov 2008
In Sudan, family laws are formed and applied by the religious communities - Islamic, Christian and traditional African beliefs -creating a gendered citizenship ...
Sudan
Islamists in Jordan: Promoters of or obstacles to female empowerment and gender equality?
Islamists in Jordan: Promoters of or obstacles to female empowerment and gender equality?Journal Article | Nov 2009
This study deals with the Muslim Brotherhoods’ reception of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discriminations against Women) ...
Islamists, Human rights, CEDAW, Islamic Legislation, sharia, Jordan, Jordan
Women at work in Sudan: Marital privilege or constitutional right
Women at work in Sudan: Marital privilege or constitutional rightJournal Article | Jun 2019
This article explores how working women in Sudan's capital negotiate legal constraints placing them under the guardianship of their husbands, imposing ...
Sudan
Beyond Islamist Extremism: Women and the Algerian Uprisings of 2019
Beyond Islamist Extremism: Women and the Algerian Uprisings of 2019CMI Brief | Oct 2019
February 22, 2019, marked a watershed moment in Algeria’s history, and a key moment in the struggle for women’s rights. For the first time ...
Uprising, Islamist extremists, Democracy, Gender Equality, Protest, Women's Involvement, Algeria
A mixed bag: Norway's support for women and girls' rights and gender equality in international development
A mixed bag: Norway's support for women and girls' rights and gender equality in international developmentReport in External Series | Jan 2015
A mixed bag: Norway's support for women and girls' rights and gender equality in international deve
Mozambique, Gender, Evaluation
The role of courts and civil society in safeguarding women's human rights in Bangladesh
Project | Jul 2004 - Dec 2005
In spite of more than three decades of efforts to promote women's rights in Bangladesh, the results have been piecemal and only slowly forthcoming, leaving ...
Bangladesh, courts, women's rights, gender justice, human rights, law
Norwegian Centre for Democracy Support: Evaluation of Political Parties' Cooperation Projects: Norwegian Labour Party Women and Fateh Women, and Socialist Left Party Women and Palestinian Federation for Women's Action
Commissioned Report | Jun 2008
Norwegian Centre for Democracy Support: Evaluation of Political Parties' Cooperation Projects: Norw
Women's rights, Palestine, political parties, Palestine, Norway
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rightsCMI Report | Dec 2017
This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence ...
human rights, women, family law, gender, Sudan
Access denied. Abortion rights in Latin America
Access denied. Abortion rights in Latin AmericaCMI Brief | Jan 2014
Millions of Latin American women face serious barriers to their sexual and reproductive rights, and they suffer serious consequences as a result. ...
abortion rights, reproductive rights, Peru, Latin America
Law Reform in Post-Conflict Sudan: Are Female Members of the National Assembly Acting in the Interest of Sudanese Women?
Law Reform in Post-Conflict Sudan: Are Female Members of the National Assembly Acting in the Interest of Sudanese Women?Journal Article | Dec 2013
Law Reform in Post-Conflict Sudan: Are Female Members of the National Assembly Acting in the Interes
Women's rights, law reform, mobilization, gender quota, Sudan, , Sudan
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim WorldProject | Mar 2014 - Dec 2017
This project seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia ...
Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen, Iran, Lebanon
Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam
Journal Article | Jan 2011
The fundamental argument put forward by Islamists, who have ruled Sudan since 1989, for not signing the convention is based on cultural relativism; different ...
Islamism, Islam, feminism, women's rights, interlegality, gender justice, CEDAW, Sudan
Multiculturalism and pluralism in secular society: Individual or collective rights?
Multiculturalism and pluralism in secular society: Individual or collective rights?Journal Article | Nov 2011
This paper discusses multiculturalism in view of collectivistic cultural structures in immigrant communities. Women in religious minority ...
multiculturalism, Muslim communities, religious divorce
Evaluation of Norway's Support to Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Development Cooperation
Evaluation of Norway's Support to Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Development CooperationProject | Jul 2014 - May 2015
SIPU in Sweden, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London and Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Norway have been commissioned by Norad to undertake ...
Norwegian Aid. Gender Equality, Global + Ethiopia, Nepal, Mozambique
The Politics of Women's Representation in Sudan: Debating Women's Rights in Islam from the Elites to the Grassroots
The Politics of Women's Representation in Sudan: Debating Women's Rights in Islam from the Elites to the GrassrootsCMI Report | Mar 2010
The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given ...
Sudan, Women, Islam, Peacebuilding
Preventable maternal death: a violation of women's rights
Journal Article | Jan 2009
More than one woman dies every minute from preventable causes in childbirth, and for every woman who dies as many as 30 others are left with lifelong, ...
Demanding justice and security: Indigenous women and legal pluralities in Latin America
Demanding justice and security: Indigenous women and legal pluralities in Latin AmericaEdited Book | Jun 2017
Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging ...
Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women's Rights Advocacy in Malawi
Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women's Rights Advocacy in MalawiJournal Article | Oct 2019
Why the Gender of Traditional Authorities Matters: Intersectionality and Women's Rights Advocacy in
Gender justice and legal pluralities. Latin American and African perspectives
Gender justice and legal pluralities. Latin American and African perspectivesEdited Book | Jan 2013
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for ...
Women, Women''s rights, Human rights, Gender, Latin America, Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala
Women and legal pluralism: Lessons from indigenous governance systems in the Andes
Journal Article | Jan 2017
The shift towards legally plural multicutural and pluri-national citizenship regimes in the Andes formally recognised indigenous peoples' community-based ...