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Tribal Peoples, Nationalism and the Human Rights Challenge. The Adivasis of Bangladesh
Tribal Peoples, Nationalism and the Human Rights Challenge. The Adivasis of BangladeshBook | Jan 2005
The mapping of the chaning historical relationships between people, lands and identities in the central tribal belt of India and in north-eastern ...
Ethnic minorities, Human rights, Violence, Adivasis, Asia: Bangladesh
Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Policy Options in Democratic Transitions
Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Policy Options in Democratic TransitionsBook Chapter | Jan 2005
Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Policy Options in Democratic Transitions Elin Skaar Writin
Democracy, Human rights
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 ...
Sudan
Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights in Sudan
Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights in SudanCMI Brief | Jul 2007
During the peace process in Sudan women were merely "guests at the table. The role permitted to women during negotiations was based on a perception ...
Gender, women, rights, Sudan
Review of Right to Play
Review of Right to PlayCMI Report | Jan 2006
Right to Play (former Olympic Aid), is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organisation which uses sport and play as a development ...
Sports, Children, Youth, Nongovernmental organizations, Refugees, Tanzania, Pakistan
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equityBook Chapter | Jan 2013
This chapter explores how women’s rights and obligations are understood and negotiated within the context of an Islamic state in Sudan. ...
Sudan
Gender justice and legal pluralities. Latin American and African perspectives
Gender justice and legal pluralities. Latin American and African perspectivesEdited Book | Jan 2013
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects ...
Women, Women''s rights, Human rights, Gender, Latin America, Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala
Special Issue: "Drivers of Justice"
Special Issue: "Drivers of Justice"Edited Book | Jun 2013
The main objective of this volume is to provide a better understanding of the political, judicial and social forces driving the establishment ...
human rights, transitional justice, drivers of justice, trials, truth commissions, speical tribunals, amnesty, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Sudan
Charles Beitz and Robert E. Goodin (eds.): Global basic rights
Book Review | Dec 2010
Charles Beitz and Robert E. Goodin (eds.): Global basic rights Hugo Stokke Nordic Journal of Human
Nordic Multiculturalism: Commonalities and Differences
Nordic Multiculturalism: Commonalities and DifferencesBook Chapter | Oct 2013
The five Nordic countries may be thought of as quite similar in many ways so that we would expect commonalities rather than differences among ...
Social discrimination, migration, immigration, emigration, ethnic minorities, multiculturalism, social welfare, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finnland
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 ...
Gender, political representation, Afghanistan
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 ...
Sudan
Uruguay: reconstructing peace and democracy through transitional justice
Uruguay: reconstructing peace and democracy through transitional justiceBook Chapter | Apr 2015
This chapter traces 30 years of transitional justice development following civil-military rule (1973–85) in Uruguay. The 1985 amnesty ...
transitional justice, democracy, peace, human rights violations, accountability, conflict, post-authoritarian, Uruguay
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theoryJournal Article | Aug 2009
This article explores Hasan al-Turabi’s conception of democracy with particular focus on the role and rights of non-Muslims. This is done ...
Hasan al-Turabi, Islam, democracy, minorities, Sudan
Symposium: Courts and the Marginalized: Comparative Perspectives
Symposium: Courts and the Marginalized: Comparative PerspectivesJournal Article | Jun 2007
Those landmark cases where courts have assertively defended the rights of poor, vulnerable, or insular groups-such as homosexuals, refugees, ...
Truth commissions, trials - or nothing? Policy options in democratic transitions
Truth commissions, trials - or nothing? Policy options in democratic transitionsJournal Article | Jan 1999
Gross human rights violations have constituted a hotly contested national issue in many recent transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. ...
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 ...
Islamists, Human rights, CEDAW, Islamic Legislation, sharia, Jordan, Jordan
Solving the problem of (non)compliance in SE rights litigation .
Solving the problem of (non)compliance in SE rights litigation .Book Chapter | Jan 2017
Solving the problem of (non)compliance in SE rights litigation . Daniel M. Brinks Social Rights Judg
The Battle over abortion rights in Brazil's state arenas, 1995-2006
The Battle over abortion rights in Brazil's state arenas, 1995-2006Journal Article | Jun 2017
This article proposes a relational approach to the study of abortion law reform in Brazil. It focuses on the interaction of pro-choice and anti-abortion ...
Strategies of Self-Proclaimed Pro-Life Groups: Effect of New Religious Actors on Sexual Policies
Strategies of Self-Proclaimed Pro-Life Groups: Effect of New Religious Actors on Sexual PoliciesJournal Article | May 2016
Over the past few decades political processes recognizing and broadening sexual and reproductive rights have produced a reaction from conservative ...