This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women ...

Local government is an important avenue for getting practical experience in participating in politics before moving on to the national arena. Advocates ...

Women are women or how to please your husband: Initiation ceremonies and the politics of 'tradition

The number of Muslim women participating in political decision-making in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) is on the rise. This brief explores ...

Following the adoption of the Senegalese Law on Parity and the subsequent influx of women to the National Assembly, we saw a strong gendered polarisation ...

Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success concerns ...

Europe experiences ultra-conservative push-backs on social advances in sexual and reproductive rights. Who are the actors, what motivates them and how do they work?

Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...

The Specialized Units for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women in Afghanistan: Shortcuts or det

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice. In 2009, a proposed ...

Ansar al-Sunna and Women’s Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segrega

Alicia Ely Yamin, Joseph H. Flom Fellow on Global Health and Human Rights, and professor II at CMI, argues that using human rights approaches to effectively address maternal mortality challenges human rights paradigms as well as development practice.

Ten years ago, on January 12, at 16:53 in the afternoon, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti. The country was left in shambles. So was the women’s ...

Including women in local councils is strongly negatively associated with the prevalence of both petty and grand forms of corruption. This reduction in ...

The belief that women are less corrupt than men is widespread, even among development specialists. Variations in risk aversion and reciprocal behaviour ...

This article offers some reflections on the efforts over the last decade to combat violence against women in Afghanistan through reforms of laws and the ...

Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially ...

Scholars, politicians and women activists today share a concern for the limited representation of women in different political bodies. Statistics comparing ...

Life upside down: Women and silent crises in the Middle East Nefissa Naguib Pakistan Journal of Wom

Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was its call to place adolescent sexual and ...