Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...

Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala Ra

The project Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 ...

Despite an increase in the number of countries that have adopted women’s caucuses in sub-Saharan Africa, there is still little empirical ...

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

Local government is an important avenue for getting practical experience in participating in politics before moving on to the national arena. ...

Executive summary This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, ...

A violência contra as mulheres é uma prática generalizada em Angola, pouco se sabendo ainda sobre a perceção ...

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 ...

The belief that women are less corrupt than men is widespread, even among development specialists. Variations in risk aversion and reciprocal ...

In Tanzania, there is a striking increase in the number of girls who get pregnant from the ages 16 to 20. Among 16 year olds, 11 percent get pregnant, whereas 61 percent of the 20 year old girls start childbearing. Why do so many girls have babies when they are this young? How does this affect their economic situation and possibilities of entering the job market?

On 19 March, Farkhunda was lynched by an angry mob on the streets of Kabul. She had been falsely accused of burning the Quran. In a swift trial, four men were sentenced to death, eight to 16 years in prison. The Farkhunda trial is a statistical outlier. In Afghanistan, few men are punished for violence against women.

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

Family planning: Population numbers game must add up for women Alicia Ely Yamin, Camila Gianella Th

Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...

This paper explores generosity among anonymous villagers and sharing within families using a dictator game field experiment that was carried ...

Gender is an important cross cutting issue in Norwegian development assistance in general and, due to the special conditions, in Afghnaistan ...

The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state Kate Halvorsen CMI Repor

This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include ...

Tastes and fragrances from the old world: Memoirs by Egyptian Jewish women Nefissa Naguib Studies i