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Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in AfricaCMI Brief | Nov 2017
Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional ...
child marriage, counter-mobilization, Sudan, Zambia
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
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in SudanCMI Brief | Sep 2017
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 ...
FGM, female genital mutilation, weak law, law, paper tiger, ARUSS, Sudan
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
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim WorldProject | Mar 2014 - Dec 2017
This project seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, ...
Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen, Iran, Lebanon
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in KhartoumJournal Article | Nov 2008
In Sudan, family laws are formed and applied by the religious communities - Islamic, Christian and traditional African beliefs -creating a gendered ...
Sudan
Community Development Requirements in Mining Laws
Community Development Requirements in Mining LawsJournal Article | Aug 2014
Since the mid-1980s, 32 countries around the world have adopted community development requirements into their mining laws, while nine countries ...
mining, community development, regulatory reform, corporate social , responsibility, foreign direct investment, Sierra Leone
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015 (in Arabic)
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015 (in Arabic)CMI Report | Sep 2016
This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, ...
Sudan
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015CMI Report | Nov 2015
This report investigates criminal law reform in Sudan, focusing on two important and controversial legal reforms related to (a) a definition ...
Sudan
Rule of law and environmental justice in the forests: The challenge of 'strong law enforcement' in corrupt conditions
Rule of law and environmental justice in the forests: The challenge of 'strong law enforcement' in corrupt conditionsU4 Issue | Jun 2013
Widespread illegal forest activities have contributed to deforestation, forest degradation, economic losses to nations and injustices for ...
REDD+, Forest governance, Corruption, Anti-corruption, Law enforcement, natural resource management, Indonesia, Cameroon
Compromise over land takeover
Compromise over land takeoverNewspaper Op-Ed | Dec 2013
The Land Acquisition Bill passed by both houses of Parliament awaits presidential nod before it becomes law and replaces the Land Acquisition ...
India
Legal Reform and Women’s Rights in Lebanese Personal Status Laws
Legal Reform and Women’s Rights in Lebanese Personal Status LawsCMI Report | Oct 2017
This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: ...
women's rights, marriage, divorce, domestic violence, Lebanon
Caught between rape and adultery in Sudan
Caught between rape and adultery in SudanProject | Apr 2011 - Nov 2014
The project is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in cooperation with the Regional Institute of Gender, Diversity,Peace and Rights ...
Violence, women, conflict, agency, Islamic law reform, Sudan
Litigating the Right to Health
Litigating the Right to HealthProgramme | Jan 2008 - Jan 2012
Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy?
The project investigates whether litigation can ...
Health rights, courts, health rights litigation, public interest litigation, social rights jurisprudence, health policy, health economics, medical ethics, priority setting, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, South Africa
Building Mayan authority and autonomy: The "recovery" of indigenous law in post-peace Guatemala
Building Mayan authority and autonomy: The "recovery" of indigenous law in post-peace GuatemalaJournal Article | Jul 2011
Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, ...
Between Law and Customs: Normative Interconnections in Kabul’s Tribunals
Journal Article | Jan 2015
The Afghan normative scenario is composed of customary practices, shari’a principles, laws promulgated by the state and international ...
Afghanistan, law, custom, judicial practice
Coverage of the emergency health care law and the Compulsory Insurance against Road Traffic Crashes (SOAT)
Coverage of the emergency health care law and the Compulsory Insurance against Road Traffic Crashes (SOAT)Journal Article | Jan 2010
Objective. The aim of this study was to ascertain, from patients’ perspective, the degree of knowledge and the actual coverage of the ...
Emergency medical services, Law enforcement, Accident insurance, Insurance benefits, Accidents, traffic, Peru
Legal Cultures in the (Un)Rule of Law: Indigenous Rights and Juridification in Guatemala
Legal Cultures in the (Un)Rule of Law: Indigenous Rights and Juridification in GuatemalaBook Chapter | Jan 2011
This law and society reader taps a rich and diverse literature to compare and contrast the legal experience of many different cultures and nations. ...
Women’s Equal Rights and Islam in Sudanese Republican Thought: A Translation of Three Family Law Booklets from 1975, Produced and Circulated by the Republican Sisters
Women’s Equal Rights and Islam in Sudanese Republican Thought: A Translation of Three Family Law Booklets from 1975, Produced and Circulated by the Republican SistersSudan Working Paper | Aug 2015
This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s ...
Sudan, Republican Brothers, Islam, Women's rights, Family law
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