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Complex realities and astute actors: Sudanese women's activism and UN Security Council Resolution 1325
Complex realities and astute actors: Sudanese women's activism and UN Security Council Resolution 1325Report in External Series | Jan 2014
Sudanese women activists do not use United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 to claim rights. During my eight years of engagement with women’s ...
Resolutionn 1325, Sudan, women's activism, Sudan
Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women's Rights
Project | Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
Critical Explorations of Norwegian Aid Policy on Gender Equality and Women's Rights Gender,Civil so
Gender, Civil society, Tanzania
Gender Relations and Human Rights in Angola
Project | Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
This project will seek to better understand how women’s life opportunities are gendered. Particular attention will be given to women’s access ...
Angola
Women’s Right to Abortion after Rape in Sudan
Women’s Right to Abortion after Rape in SudanCMI Insight | Apr 2015
In 1991, Sudan’s Islamist regime expanded the circumstances under which abortions are permitted within 90 days of conception, to include rape. This ...
Sudan
Indigenous Women's Access to Justice in Latin America
Indigenous Women's Access to Justice in Latin AmericaJournal Article | Jan 2011
Taking dominant narratives of human rights progress and skepticism in Latin America as my point of departure, I explore in this article an alternative ...
Latin America
We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan women
We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan womenCMI Report | Dec 2015
Norway has a strong political commitment to promote the rights of women and their participation in public life through its development cooperation programs. ...
Afghanistan
Toward Transformative Accountability: A Proposal for Rights-Based Approaches to Maternal Health in the MDGs and Beyond
Toward Transformative Accountability: A Proposal for Rights-Based Approaches to Maternal Health in the MDGs and BeyondJournal Article | Jan 2010
Meaningful and equitable progress on reducing maternal mortality and meeting Millennium Development Goal 5 calls for the adoption of a human rights-based ...
Maternal Health, Right to Health, Rights-Based Approach (RBA), Accountability, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state
Doctoral Thesis | Nov 2011
This thesis investigates the politics of competing Islamic gender ideologies in Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted in greater Khartoum from 2006 through ...
Sudan
A regime of uncertainty: rights of residency in the occupied West Bank
Journal Article | Jan 2011
A regime of uncertainty: rights of residency in the occupied West Bank Bård Kårtveit Review of wom
Israel, Palestine
Leaving Them to It? Women's Rights in Transitioning Afghanistan
Leaving Them to It? Women's Rights in Transitioning AfghanistanReport in External Series | May 2014
Donors, Western publics and Afghan activists and their local allies should recognize that external support cannot in any way compensate for local political ...
Afghanistan
Sexual and reproductive rights - a global legal battlefield
Sexual and reproductive rights - a global legal battlefieldCMI Brief | Apr 2013
Millennium Development Goal number 5 (MDG 5) aims to reduce maternal mortality. In this brief we argue that, in the current global context more rigorous ...
Women and Peacebuilding in Africa
Women and Peacebuilding in AfricaProject | Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
The project looks at the cost of women’s exclusion and the possibilities for their inclusion in peace talks, peacebuilding, and politics in countries ...
Women, peacebuilding, Africa, legal reform, Algeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Sudan
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging AgendasCMI Brief | Feb 2010
The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given ...
gender, peacebuilding, rights, Sudan
India
Book Chapter | Jan 1992
The article gives a comprehensive overview of the state of human rights and recent trends in India. The article covers civil and political as well as ...
Human rights, India, Development, Asia
Caught between rape and adultery in Sudan
Caught between rape and adultery in SudanProject | Apr 2011 - Nov 2014
The project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in cooperation with the Regional Institute of Gender, Diversity,Peace and Rights (RIG/DPR) ...
Violence, women, conflict, agency, Islamic law reform, Sudan
Darfur crisis: The role of traditional leaders in dealing with violence against women
Darfur crisis: The role of traditional leaders in dealing with violence against womenSudan Working Paper | Dec 2014
The armed conflict between the Sudan government and rebel groups in Darfur erupted in 2003. Escalating violence included sexual assaults on women. Many ...
Sexual violence, women, Darfur, Sudan
Promoting women's rights in Afghanistan: The ambiguous footprint of the West
Promoting women's rights in Afghanistan: The ambiguous footprint of the WestBook Chapter | Nov 2011
The critique of the Liberal Peace is based on the assumption that Western countries attempt to impose ‘their’ values and models on war-torn ...
Afghanistan
Indigenous women's access to justice in Latin America
Indigenous women's access to justice in Latin AmericaCMI Working Paper | Dec 2010
This paper gives an overview of the challenges which indigenous women in Latin America face in accessing both formal state justice and indigenous legal ...
Women's rights, Indigenous population, Justice, Latin America
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab SpringCMI Insight | Apr 2013
Hopes were high that the uprisings that began in 2011 across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) that have come to be known as “the Arab ...
Egypt, Tunisia
Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal Pluralism
Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal PluralismProject | Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
There is broad agreement in international development on the higher incidence of women amongst the global poor and on the role that gender inequalities ...