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Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing out in ...
women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda
Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala
Book Chapter | Jan 2013
Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala Ra
Sexual violence, women, Justice, Guatemala
Acting jointly on behalf of women? The cross-party women’s caucus in Malawi
CMI Brief | May 2016
Despite an increase in the number of countries that have adopted women’s caucuses in sub-Saharan Africa, there is still little empirical knowledge ...
women, caucus, legislation, Malawi
The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in Malawi
CMI Brief | Aug 2016
All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the role of ...
women, politics, political parties, Malawi
Women in Local Government. A Potential Arena for Women’s Substantive Representation
CMI Brief | Aug 2016
Local government is an important avenue for getting practical experience in participating in politics before moving on to the national arena. Advocates ...
women, politics, local government, Malawi
Violência contra a mulher no contexto da pobreza urbana em Angola
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
A violência contra as mulheres é uma prática generalizada em Angola, pouco se sabendo ainda sobre a perceção que as ...
poverty, women, violence, Angola, Luanda
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 independence ...
human rights, women, family law, gender, Sudan
Pastoral Women in Town: The Case of the Migrant Fulbe in Sinja, Sudan
Sudan Working Paper | Nov 2020
The world has witnessed rapid urbanization and an increased number of women migrating in a phenomenon known as the femininization of migration. Urban ...
women, pastoral, migration, Sinja, Sudan
Unfulfilled hopes. The quest for a minimum marriage age in Yemen, 2009–2014
CMI Report | May 2016
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 in Afghanistan, ...
marriage age, marriage, law, rights, women, Yemen
«Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.
CMI Working Paper | Sep 2016
Executive summary
This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, Unidades ...
Favela, Rio de Janeiro, police, Rocinha, women, children, security, Police Pacification Units, UPP, Brazil
Are men and women equally corrupt?
U4 Brief | Jun 2015
The belief that women are less corrupt than men is widespread, even among development specialists. Variations in risk aversion and reciprocal behaviour ...
aid
Violence against women and criminal justice in Afghanistan
Project | Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
Violence against women has emerged as arguably the single most important focus for both gender programming and women’s rights activism in Afghanistan ...
Gender violence, justice system, Afghanistan
Here come the girls: Empowering young Tanzanian women
News | 28 Oct 2013
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?
Generosity and sharing among villagers: Do women give more?
Journal Article | Aug 2015
This paper explores generosity among anonymous villagers and sharing within families using a dictator game field experiment that was carried out in rural ...
Dictator game, , Generosity, , Sharing, , Field experiment, , Ethiopia, , Africa
Family planning: Population numbers game must add up for women
Newspaper Op-Ed | Jul 2012
Family planning: Population numbers game must add up for women Alicia Ely Yamin, Camila Gianella Th
Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014
CMI Insight | Sep 2014
Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...
Revolution, Arab spring, sexual assault, Egypt
Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in Senegal
Journal Article | Dec 2019
Following the adoption of the Senegalese Law on Parity and the subsequent influx of women to the National Assembly, we saw a strong gendered polarisation ...
Senegal
Violence against women in Afghanistan: Getting away with murder
News | 19 May 2015
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.
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
Book 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. It particularly ...
Sudan
COVID-19 and the urgent need to protect Sudanese women against violence
Sudan Brief | Jul 2020
Three decades of Islamist rule institutionalized a culture of violence against women in Sudan. The COVID-19 pandemic and state instructed lockdown has ...
COVID-19, Coronavirus, domestic violence, pandemic, abuse, violence, Sudan