Blar i CMI Open Research Archive på forfatter "Tønnessen, Liv"
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Weak law forbidding female genital mutilation in Red Sea State, Sudan
al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv; Bamkar, Sharifa (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:1, Working paper, 2017-05-01)This paper critically investigates the criminalization of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Red Sea, a state with one of the highest prevalence rates of FGM/C in Sudan (where 89% of females have undergone the ... -
When Rape Becomes Politics: Negotiating Islamic Law Reform in Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (Women's Studies International Forum vol. 44, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)Under Sudan’s Criminal Act (1991), rape is defined as zina (adultery and fornication) without consent. This means that the strict rules of evidence used for zina are also applied to rape. Women activists have contested ... -
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015
Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (CMI Report R 2015:10, Research report, 2015-11-01)This report investigates criminal law reform in Sudan, focusing on two important and controversial legal reforms related to (a) a definition of rape that is clearly de-linked from the Islamic crime of zina (i.e., sexual ... -
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015 (in Arabic)
Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (CMI Report R 2015:10, Research report, 2016-09-01)This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, published in November 2015. The English version can be found here . ... -
Women at work in Sudan: Marital privilege or constitutional right
Tønnessen, Liv (Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-01)This article explores how working women in Sudan's capital negotiate legal constraints placing them under the guardianship of their husbands, imposing strict public dress and behavioral codes upon them, and upholding ... -
Women’s Activism in Saudi Arabia: Male Guardianship and Sexual Violence
Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Report R 2016:1, Research report, 2016-01-01)Saudi Arabia is often presented in Western media as the poster child of women’s oppression. It is the country where women are forced to cover their heads and body in black dress and cannot drive cars. Although Saudi Arabia ... -
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
al-Nagar, Samia; Tønnessen, Liv; Taha, Asma Mahmoud Muhammed (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:5, Working paper, 2015-08-01)This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s Day in 1975: (i) Women Rights in the Constitution and under Sudanese Sharia Laws , ... -
Women’s Right to Abortion after Rape in Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Insight 2015:2, Report, 2015-04-01)In 1991, Sudan’s Islamist regime expanded the circumstances under which abortions are permitted within 90 days of conception, to include rape. This reform has received great attention, especially given the rampant rape ...