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"Kvinner i utvikling" i Gambia. Nye kjønnsrelasjoner med hjelp fra Verdensbanken?
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1992
The paper discussed whether it is likely that the agricultural and the health component in a large, recently started Women in development project in the ...
Women in development, Gender needs, World Bank, Gambia
Women in Politics in Malawi: An Introduction
Women in Politics in Malawi: An IntroductionBook Chapter | Jan 2016
Introduction chapter to the book: Women in Politics in Malawi
Politics, democratisation, gender, Malawi
Enemies of the state: Curbing women activists advocating rape reform in Sudan
Enemies of the state: Curbing women activists advocating rape reform in SudanJournal Article | Jan 2017
Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity ...
Women's movement, rape, legal reform, Islamic law, Sudan
Beyond numbers? Women's 25% parliamentary quota in post-conflict Sudan
Beyond numbers? Women's 25% parliamentary quota in post-conflict SudanJournal Article | Aug 2011
This article explores the validity of critical mass theory in the context of a 25% women’s quota in the national parliament in post-conflict Sudan. ...
post-conflict Sudan, critical mass theory, women's representation, Sudan
Tønnessen Liv
Tønnessen LivResearch Director
Political scientist researching women, politics and Islam in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Gender politics, women's movements, legal reform, sexual and reproductive rights, gender based violence, family law, Sudan
Alternatives to gender quotas : electoral financing of women candidates in Malawi
Journal Article | Sep 2014
Gender quotas change the rules of candidate selection, reflecting a demand-side solution to women's underrepresentation in politics. In contrast, limited ...
Gender quotas, Electoral Financing, Candidate Selection, Africa, Malawi
Women’s informal peace efforts: Grassroots activism in South Sudan
Women’s informal peace efforts: Grassroots activism in South SudanCMI Brief | Dec 2018
South Sudanese women have been grossly under-represented in formal peace negotiations. However, they have been active in informal peacebuilding at the ...
South Sudan
The Politics of Humanitarianism. Power, Ideology and Aid
The Politics of Humanitarianism. Power, Ideology and AidEdited Book | Jan 2016
Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success concerns ...
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: Insights from Zambia
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: Insights from ZambiaCMI Brief | Feb 2020
What does it take for a female politician to win a party nomination? We still know little about women’s entry into politics in countries without ...
politics, gender, women politicians, quotas, nomination, informal, Zambia
Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine
Women, Water and Memory: Recasting Lives in PalestineBook | Jan 2009
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 ...
Women are women or how to please your husband: Initiation ceremonies and the politics of 'tradition' in Southern Africa
Book Chapter | Jan 2000
Women are women or how to please your husband: Initiation ceremonies and the politics of 'tradition
Women in Local Government. A Potential Arena for Women’s Substantive Representation
Women in Local Government. A Potential Arena for Women’s Substantive RepresentationCMI Brief | Aug 2016
Local government is an important avenue for getting practical experience in participating in politics before moving on to the national arena. Advocates ...
women, politics, local government, Malawi
An increasing number of Muslim women in politics: A step towards complementarity, not equality
An increasing number of Muslim women in politics: A step towards complementarity, not equalityCMI Brief | May 2018
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 ...
Women in politics, Peacebuilding in Africa, Complementarity, Sudan
Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in Senegal
Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in SenegalJournal Article | Dec 2019
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 ...
Senegal
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in SudanCMI Brief | Sep 2017
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 ...
FGM, female genital mutilation, weak law, law, paper tiger, ARUSS, Sudan
Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014
Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014CMI Insight | Sep 2014
Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...
Revolution, Arab spring, sexual assault, Egypt
The Specialized Units for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women in Afghanistan: Shortcuts or detours to women's empowerment?
Report in External Series | Jan 2016
The Specialized Units for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women in Afghanistan: Shortcuts or det
Ansar al-Sunna and Women’s Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segregation
Ansar al-Sunna and Women’s Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender SegregationJournal Article | Dec 2016
Ansar al-Sunna and Women’s Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segrega
Sudan
The European Backlash: Conservative Movements, Abortion and LGBT Rights
The European Backlash: Conservative Movements, Abortion and LGBT RightsEvent | 29 Jan 2015
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?
The Political, Research, Programmatic, and Social Responses to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and Development
The Political, Research, Programmatic, and Social Responses to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and DevelopmentJournal Article | Dec 2019
Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was its call to place adolescent sexual and ...
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health, , International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), , Adolescent pregnancy, , HIV, , Child marriage, , Low- and middle-income countries