Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Author "Tønnessen, Liv"
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From impunity to prosecution? Sexual violence in Sudan beyond Darfur
Tønnessen, Liv (NOREF Report, February 2012, Research report, 2012-03-01)Serious shortcomings in Sudanese laws and practices contribute to the lack of protection of victims of rape in Sudan. There is need for comprehensive legal reform, particularly of Sudan’s Criminal Law of 1991. The ... -
Gendercide and marginalisation – An initial review of the knowledge base
Wang, Vibeke; Hatlebakk, Magnus; Tønnessen, Liv; Mæstad, Ottar; Telle, Kari (CMI Report R 2019:04, Research report, 2019-05-01) -
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights within the Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)In classical political thought, citizenship is a gender-neutral abstract personhood. This concept does not travel well when discussing the citizenship of women in the Middle East and Northern Africa. In Sudan, women’s civil ... -
Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls’ Freedom to Choose
Nagar, Samia El; Bamkar, Sharifa; Tønnessen, Liv (Sudan Report SR 2017:3, Research report, 2017-09-01)Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects girls. Each year, 15 million girls are ... -
Interventions for the abandonment of child marriage in Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Report, 2018-09-01)Child marriage is legal, and accepted, throughout Sudan and the country has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. This brief examines interventions against child marriage in Sudan, which is best described ... -
Islamic Feminism, a public lecture
Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Sudan Working Paper SWP 2014:1, Working paper, 2014-11-07)The programme Assisting Regional Universities in Sudan and South Sudan (ARUSS) aims to build academic bridges between Sudan and South Sudan. The overall objective is to enhance the quality and relevance of teaching and ... -
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring
Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Insight 2013:1, Report, 2013-04-30)Hopes were high that the uprisings that began in 2011 across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) that have come to be known as “the Arab Spring” would bring not just democratization, but greater gender equality. ... -
Nye utfordringer til islamsk feminisme: Kvinneaktivismens mange ansikter i Sudan og Iran
Bøe, Marianne; Tønnessen, Liv (Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning vol. 4 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-09-01)Flere tiår med islamisering i Sudan og Iran har resultert i en fremvekst av islamsk feminisme. På samme tid fremstår kvinneaktivismen i de to landene fremdeles som mangfoldig og innbefatter både islamsk og sekulær feminisme, ... -
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv; El-Nagar, Samia; Bamkar, Sharifa (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 7, Report, 2017-09-01)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 proposed ban on FGM in the National Child Act miserably failed to materialize. ... -
Patriarchy, Politics and Women’s Activism in Post-Revolution Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Report, 2020-07-01)While Sudanese women were at the forefront of the popular uprising under the banner "freedom, peace and justice" that started in December 2018 and eventually led to the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, ... -
Prevalence, drivers, and review of the literature on the effects of interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation
Norbakk, Mari; Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Report R 2020:03, Research report, 2020-11-01) -
Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (The Middle East (16th edition), Chapter, 2023-02-01) -
Sudan country case study: Child rights
al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (UTV Working Paper 2011:3, Research report, 2011-08-26) -
Sudanese Women’s Demands for Freedom, Peace, and Justice in the 2019 Revolution
al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv (Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, Chapter, 2021-10-01)This chapter aims to understand why women were so visibly involved in the most recent revolution and how it relates to their struggles for peace, justice, and freedom during the dictatorship of Bashir. Women’s activism ... -
The Limits of Law: Abortion in the Middle East and Northern Africa
Maffi, Irene; Tønnessen, Liv (Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 21 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-01) -
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas
Tønnessen, Liv; Kjøstvedt, Hilde Granås (CMI Brief vol. 9 no. 1, Report, 2010-02-24)The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given post-confl ict situation. This brief challenges this position by exploring ... -
The politicization of abortion and hippocratic disobedience in Islamist Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 21 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-01)Abstract In Sudan's Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association to illegal pregnancy. Fornication is crime against God punishable with 100 lashes. Pregnancy outside a marriage contract constitute ... -
The Women's Quota in Conflict Ridden Sudan (in Arabic)
Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Working paper, 2015-09-01)This article explores women's substantive representation in Sudan's National Assembly. It examines the extent to which female legislators in the National Assembly represent women's interests, paying special attention to ... -
The Women's Quota in Conflict Ridden Sudan: Ideological Battles for and against Gender Equality
Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Women's Studies International Forum vol. Volume 41 no. Part 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)This article explores women's substantive representation in Sudan's National Assembly. It examines the extent to which female legislators in the National Assembly represent women's interests, paying special attention to ... -
Tokens of Peace? Women's Representation in the Juba Peace Process
Abbas, Reem; Tønnessen, Liv (African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review vol. 12 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-01)This article evaluates women’s representation in the 2019–20 peace negotiations and the extent to which their interests are reflected in the Juba Peace Agreement. With East Sudan as a case study, this article ...