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Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in AngolaCMI 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 ...
women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rightsCMI 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
Unfulfilled hopes. The quest for a minimum marriage age in Yemen, 2009–2014
Unfulfilled hopes. The quest for a minimum marriage age in Yemen, 2009–2014CMI 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 ...
marriage age, marriage, law, rights, women, Yemen
Acting jointly on behalf of women? The cross-party women’s caucus in Malawi
Acting jointly on behalf of women? The cross-party women’s caucus in MalawiCMI 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 ...
women, caucus, legislation, Malawi
Violência contra a mulher no contexto da pobreza urbana em Angola
Violência contra a mulher no contexto da pobreza urbana em AngolaCMI Brief | Oct 2016
A violência contra as mulheres é uma prática generalizada em Angola, pouco se sabendo ainda sobre a perceção ...
poverty, women, violence, Angola, Luanda
The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in Malawi
The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in MalawiCMI Brief | Aug 2016
All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the ...
women, politics, political parties, Malawi
«Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.
«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, ...
Favela, Rio de Janeiro, police, Rocinha, women, children, security, Police Pacification Units, UPP, Brazil
Enforcement of water rights
Enforcement of water rightsCMI Brief | May 2016
In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved ...
natural resources, water, human rights, Costa Rica, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Zambia
Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countriesReport in External Series | May 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
Child rights, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Supporting child rights: Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Report in External Series | Feb 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
child rights, civil society, mainstreaming, targeting, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remainCMI Insight | May 2016
Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. ...
child marriage, marriage, family law, Malawi, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia
Enough food is not enough - Litigation as a strategy to secure the right to food
Enough food is not enough - Litigation as a strategy to secure the right to foodMaster's Thesis | Oct 2011
This thesis aims to investigate the conditions for legal enforcement of the right to food in Guatemala. In recent years there has been an increase ...
Guatemala
Human Rights in Developing Countries. Yearbook 1997
Edited Book | Jan 1998
The tenth in a series of yearbooks, this edition contains articles on topical human rights issues as well as surveys of individual countries. ...
Shades of dignity: exploring the demands of equality in applying human rights frameworks to health
Journal Article | Jan 2009
The foundational principle of human rights is that all human beings are equal in rights, dignity, and worth. Yet we live in a world ravaged ...
Writing Rights: Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute 1984-2004
Writing Rights: Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute 1984-2004Edited Book | Jan 2005
Human rights are currently an important area of research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), as they have been for the past 20 years. This ...
Human rights, Economic and social rights, democracy, democratization, development, party systems, truth comissions, reconcilliation, foreign policy, courts in transition, Africa: South Africa, Zambia., Asia: Bangladesh., Americas: Latin America
We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan women
We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan womenCMI Report | Dec 2015
Norway has a strong political commitment to promote the rights of women and their participation in public life through its development cooperation ...
Afghanistan
Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom: The Rights of Women and Non-Muslims after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom: The Rights of Women and Non-Muslims after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in SudanCMI Report | Jul 2007
Government policy since independence has by and large disregarded Sudan's multi-religious character through continuous Islamisation and Arabisation ...
Religious freedom, Women's rights, Sudan, Gender, Human rights, Religion, Islam, Christianity, Peace building
Human rights and development. The discourse in the humanities and social sciences
CMI Report | Jan 1993
The aim of this study is to review central debates on human rights within the social sciences and humanities with a view to enumerating the ...
Human rights, Economic development, Political development, Development aid, Reporting systems
Palestinian Women: Is there a Unitary Conception of Rights?
Palestinian Women: Is there a Unitary Conception of Rights?CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
What are "ordinary" Palestinian women's views on women's rights? How do they perceive their own rights situation? The term "ordinary" in this ...
Women, Gender, Rights, Women's rights, Palestine, Middle East
The Mapuche People's Battle for Indigenous Land. Litigation as a Strategy to Defend Indigenous Land Rights
The Mapuche People's Battle for Indigenous Land. Litigation as a Strategy to Defend Indigenous Land RightsCMI Working Paper | Mar 2008
Land is the foundation for the economic sustenance of indigenous peoples and for the continued survival of their cultures. One of the major ...
Legal system, Land rights, Law, Chile