Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Subject "Family Law"
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Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa
(Political Studies, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-01)Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional institutions enjoy constitutional authority. To explore differences between states ... -
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
(CMI Insight 2016:4, Report, 2016-05-01)Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization to non-criminalization in the legal ... -
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
(CMI Report R 2017:5, Research report, 2017-12-01)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 independence in 1956. The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in ... -
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
(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 , ...