In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved ...

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 ...

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

This paper discusses recent conservation efforts in Northern Pakistan and the relevance of national parks as legal instruments in nature and ...

Since 2002, Den Nationale Scene (DNS), Bergen, Norway, has collaborated with the Afghan National Theatre. In 2009, the Norwegian Ministry of ...

PhD fellow with research focus on humanitarian diplomacy and the United Nations.

Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...

Highlights Discontent with mining has contributed to calls for resource nationalism in Tanzania’s petroleum sector. The Tanzanian ...

This study focuses on Tanzania's efforts to use elements from ethnic expressive arts in political propaganda and in the creation of a national ...

This paper discusses recent conversation efforts in Northern Pakistan and the relevance of national parks as legal instruments in nature and ...

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

All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the ...

Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According to a recent article in the Lancet, ...

Museums are major national institutions involved in peoples' memory making. The ways the old and new, similarities and difference are remembered or forgotten reflect and affect existing perceptions of identities within the national frame. How does African nation states display pluralities and diversitites within a common national identity?

After decades of efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) in Sudan, the prevalence of the practice is still staggering. So far, attempts to criminalize FGM have been futile, but there is an election coming up. Will a new national assembly open up for law reform?

Middle East researcher working on the Palestine-Israel conflict, Palestinian refugees and international aid.

Geographer focusing on GIS analysis and cartography to analyze and communicate socio-environmental issues.

There are several different options for the design of REDD+ at the national level, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses in terms of ...

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

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