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

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

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 ...

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 ...

This project seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, ...

In Sudan, family laws are formed and applied by the religious communities - Islamic, Christian and traditional African beliefs -creating a gendered ...

Since the mid-1980s, 32 countries around the world have adopted community development requirements into their mining laws, while nine countries ...

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

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

Widespread illegal forest activities have contributed to deforestation, forest degradation, economic losses to nations and injustices for ...

The Land Acquisition Bill passed by both houses of Parliament awaits presidential nod before it becomes law and replaces the Land Acquisition ...

This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: ...

The project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in cooperation with the Regional Institute of Gender, Diversity,Peace and Rights ...

Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy? The project investigates whether litigation can ...

Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, ...

This conference invites scholars and activists to present papers on law reform particularly within the area of family law and criminal law. How, when and where are women activists using law and law reform as a tool to create gender justice in the greater Middle East?

The Afghan normative scenario is composed of customary practices, shari’a principles, laws promulgated by the state and international ...

Objective. The aim of this study was to ascertain, from patients’ perspective, the degree of knowledge and the actual coverage of the ...

This law and society reader taps a rich and diverse literature to compare and contrast the legal experience of many different cultures and nations. ...

This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s ...