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Women’s Rights and Political Representation: Past Achievements and Future Challenges
Women’s Rights and Political Representation: Past Achievements and Future ChallengesReport in External Series | Dec 2014
This paper summarizes the main achievements and challenges for Afghan women’s participation in politics and their access to justice. It ...
Gender, political representation, Afghanistan
Patriarchy, Politics and Women’s Activism in Post-Revolution Sudan
Patriarchy, Politics and Women’s Activism in Post-Revolution SudanSudan Brief | Jul 2020
While Sudanese women were at the forefront of the popular uprising under the banner "freedom, peace and justice" that started in December 2018 and eventually ...
Women's rights, Political activism, Sudan
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
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
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
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
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
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
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim WorldProject | Mar 2014 - Jun 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
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
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
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
Pastoral Women in Town: The Case of the Migrant Fulbe in Sinja, Sudan
Pastoral Women in Town: The Case of the Migrant Fulbe in Sinja, SudanSudan Working Paper | Nov 2020
The world has witnessed rapid urbanization and an increased number of women migrating in a phenomenon known as the femininization of migration. Urban ...
women, pastoral, migration, Sinja, Sudan
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 ...