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Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
CMI Report | Dec 2017
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 ...
human rights, women, family law, gender, Sudan
Women and Islamisation: Comtemporary dimensions of discourse on gender relations
Project | Jan 1994 - Jul 1998
This seminar on Women and Islamisation took place at CMI in 1994, focusing on Islam as a religion undergoing reinterpretation and change - especially ...
gender, islam, Asia, Africa
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas
CMI Brief | Feb 2010
The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in ...
gender, peacebuilding, rights, Sudan
Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives?
Report in External Series | Jan 2013
We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess ...
joint land certification, gender, empowerment of wives, Ethiopia, Africa
A Different Yardstick: The Gendered Political Discourse in Malawi
CMI Brief | Apr 2016
The 2014 election campaign in Malawi focussed on gender rather than facts. In this brief we argue that the campaign showed a strong, conservative, ...
election, Malawi, gender, Joyce Banda
The ‘Joyce Banda Effect’: Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in Malawi
CMI Brief | Apr 2016
In the 2014 elections in Malawi, the incumbent female president Joyce Banda lost the presidency, and the number of women MPs was reduced from ...
voting, election, gender, Malawi
European Islamic gender discourse
Book Chapter | Apr 2011
Recent discourses on human rights as well as individual rights have affected the traditional understanding of gender roles and family in general. ...
Organizing their way to gender equality
News | 25 Oct 2013
Ugandan women have organized themselves to the core of national politics. What lessons are there to learn from the Ugandan experience?
Changing gender relations in African informal economies
Project | Jan 2004 - Sep 2005
Women in many West African countries are famous for their numerical dominance and powerful organisations in several branches of the informal ...
Gender relations, informal economy, structural adjustment, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Africa
The African Development Bank's new gender policy
Project | Sep - Dec 2000
The African Development Bank, based in Abidjan, is in the process of reneweing their gender policy.
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting
CMI Report | Jan 1990
Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting Heidi Skramstad CMI Report heidi
Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
The empirical base of the paper is a Gambian multiethnic urban context. It is discussed how the label prostitute seems to be used as a metaphor ...
Prostitute, Fertility, Gender construction, Gambia
Humanitarian challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative structures and gender and assistance
CMI Report | Jan 2001
The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international ...
Asia: Afghanistan
An accumulated rage: Legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia
Book Chapter | Jan 2013
An accumulated rage: Legal pluralism and gender justice in Bolivia John-Andrew McNeish and Ana Cec
Justice, Women, Gender, Bolivia
Islam and gender in Europe: Subjectivities, politics and piety
Journal Article | Jan 2017
'Is Islam reconcilable with feminism?' asks Haideh Moghissi (1999), echoing a concern that is currently dramatized in numerous ways across and ...
WID/Gender units and the experience of gender mainstreaming in multilateral organisations. Knights on white horses?
Commissioned Report | Jan 1999
(Evaluation Report 1/99)
Who is losing out? Structural adjustment, gender and the agricultural sector in Zambia
Journal Article | Jan 1992
Who is losing out? Structural adjustment, gender and the agricultural sector in Zambia Gisela Geisl
Discources of gender and caste in rural South India: An analysis of the ideology of impurity
CMI Report | Jan 1991
Discources of gender and caste in rural South India: An analysis of the ideology of impurity Karin
Discourses of gender and caste in rural South Asia. An analysis of the ideology of impurity
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1991
This paper focuses on ideology, gender and caste in Tamilnadu, South India. First the epistemological grounding of a critical feminist theory ...
Asia: India
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, ...
Gender quotas, Electoral Financing, Candidate Selection, Africa, Malawi