Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional ...

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

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 ...

This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its ...

This project seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, ...

M. Cherif Bassiouni an international United Nations war crimes expert, often called "The Godfather of International Criminal Law". Professor Bassiouni has served in numerous United Nations positions, including Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Libya (2011) and UN Commission on Human Rights for Afghanistan (2004-06).

In Sudan, family laws are formed and applied by the religious communities - Islamic, Christian and traditional African beliefs -creating a gendered ...

Since the mid-1980s, 32 countries around the world have adopted community development requirements into their mining laws, while nine countries ...

The project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in cooperation with the Regional Institute of Gender, Diversity,Peace and Rights ...

Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy? The project investigates whether litigation can ...

This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, ...

Law enforcement agencies monitor and enforce laws that protect landscapes, seascapes, and the species that inhabit them. Corruption helps violators ...

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

This report investigates criminal law reform in Sudan, focusing on two important and controversial legal reforms related to (a) a definition ...

Widespread illegal forest activities have contributed to deforestation, forest degradation, economic losses to nations and injustices for ...

The Land Acquisition Bill passed by both houses of Parliament awaits presidential nod before it becomes law and replaces the Land Acquisition ...

This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: ...

This conference invites scholars and activists to present papers on law reform particularly within the area of family law and criminal law. How, when and where are women activists using law and law reform as a tool to create gender justice in the greater Middle East?

Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, ...

Understanding law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated ...