The report review steps taken by the Musharraf government to combat honour killings through an examination of legal reforms in the years between 2003- ...

This year, Norway celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage. We mark this occasion with a brand new blog "Now me: on women's rights".

Reem Abbas is impatient. -We are always told that we have to wait. Building the nation needs to come first, women´s rights come second. The young generation of activists is tired of being told to wait, she says.

Despite an increase in the number of countries that have adopted women’s caucuses in sub-Saharan Africa, there is still little empirical knowledge ...

Pakistan has one of the highest incidences of honour killings in the world. This is a major human rights issue that has received little attention outside ...

Afghan women's rights activists are caught in a squeeze between the expectations of Western donors, demands from Islamists and their own ambitions. Advocates fear rejection of all attempts to promote women's rights and are forced to make compromises.

Women’s rights and obligations within marriage are one of the key components of family law and is a highly sensitive political area of intervention ...

The Sudanese religious thinker and leader Al-Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha was a passionate advocate for gender equality. In 1945, he founded the Republican ...

Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’.  There ...

The Sudanese government rejects ratification of CEDAW, the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. They do this in the name of Islam.

The late Hugo Chavez proclaimed himself a feminist and opened up new arenas for women's activism in Venezuela. Poor women challenged their traditional roles as mothers and wives and took a collective step into the public sphere. Yet, their struggle is not so much about women's liberation from a Western feminist perspective as it is a fight for alleviating poverty and opening up new spaces for women's political participation.

This research project seeks to explore the relationship between legal pluralism – the multiple norms, institutions, practices and beliefs that characterise ...

An all too common effect of both short-term and long-term assistance is the creation of dependency among the beneficiaries The project investigate ...

Gender equality and women’s rights is a key priority for Norway’s foreign and development policy in general and in Afghanistan in particular. ...

Violence against women has emerged as arguably the single most important focus for both gender programming and women’s rights activism in Afghanistan ...

This is a commissioned evaluation report of a project implemented over three years by the Centre for Legal Assistance (CELA) in Malawi. It centred on ...

Ugandan women have organized themselves to the core of national politics. What lessons are there to learn from the Ugandan experience?

This article explores women's bargaining with a patriarchal Islamic state in Sudan. The article is situated within the realm of the literature ...

In the 2014 elections in Malawi, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the presidency, and the number of women MPs was reduced from 43 to 33. ...

For the first time in Sudanese history, 25% of the parliamentarians in the Assembly are women.