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Acting jointly on behalf of women? The cross-party women’s caucus in Malawi
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 8, Report, 2016-05-01)Despite an increase in the number of countries that have adopted women’s caucuses in sub-Saharan Africa, there is still little empirical knowledge about how they operate and under which conditions they are most effective ... -
Annex 2-4: Norway's contribution to women's participation in peacebuilding A Case Study Analysis from Afghanistan, Colombia and Nordic Women Mediators Network
(Research report, 2022-05-01)The study is part of an evaluation of Norwegian efforts to increase women's participation in peacebuilding between 2000 - 2020 conducted by Norad’s evaluation department. The purpose is to generat e knowledge ... -
Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights in Sudan
(CMI Brief vol. 6 no. 4, Report, 2007-07-19)During the peace process in Sudan women were merely "guests at the table. The role permitted to women during negotiations was based on a perception of them as passive victims of war, not active players in politics and ... -
Constraints for a Conservation-Based Agricultural Development Policy in Ethiopia. A Baseline Study in Fedis Awraja
(Working paper, Working paper, 1992)A baseline survey was conducted in the Hararghe region in Ethiopia in 1989 to identify constraints to agricultural production and environmental protection measures. The survey included not only agricultural support services, ... -
Darfur crisis: The role of traditional leaders in dealing with violence against women
(CMI Sudan Working Paper SWP 2014:4, Working paper, 2014-12-15)The armed conflict between the Sudan government and rebel groups in Darfur erupted in 2003. Escalating violence included sexual assaults on women. Many women who have been raped live with a stigma, or are forced to get ... -
Evaluation of Norway's Support to Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Development Cooperation
(Norad Evaluation Report 2/2015, Research report, 2015-06-01)Purpose of evaluation: This report evaluates Norway’s support to strengthening women and girls’ rights and gender equality through its development cooperation during the period 2007-2013. It assesses the extent to which ... -
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 ... -
Gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique
(Research report, Research report, 2008)This study is the first in a series of three on gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique, to be carried out in the period 2008-2010. The studies combine a critical assessment of current government and donor ... -
How can women benefit from private sector development?
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«Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.
(CMI Working Paper WP 2016:7, Working paper, 2016-09-01)Executive summary This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, Unidades de Pacificacion Policiais (UPP) or The Pacifying Police Units, from ... -
Palestinian Women: Is there a Unitary Conception of Rights?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Palestinian women’s participation in the resistance against the Israeli occupation, most notably during the first Intifada (1987-93), has been characterised as broad and active, particularly at grass roots level. This ... -
Pastoral Women in Town: The Case of the Migrant Fulbe in Sinja, Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:3, Working paper, 2020-11-01)The world has witnessed rapid urbanization and an increased number of women migrating in a phenomenon known as the femininization of migration. Urban areas are becoming extremely overcrowded and overburdened, putting ... -
The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in Malawi
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 12, Report, 2016-08-01)All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the role of the chairpersons and secretaries of the political parties in Malawi, and their role as ... -
The politics of women's representation in Sudan: Debating women's rights in islam from the elites to the grassroots
(Research report, Research report, 2010)The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given post-conflict situation. The literature seems to express the belief that ... -
The Queens' Daughters: Prostitutes as an Outcast Group in Colonial India
(Research report, Research report, 1992)The report historically traces the social construction of the Indian prostitute, which misrepresented and degraded the imagery of an accomplished courtesan and artistic entertainer to the degraded western image of a ... -
Tokens of Peace? Women's Representation in the Juba Peace Process
(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 ... -
Unfulfilled hopes. The quest for a minimum marriage age in Yemen, 2009–2014
(CMI Report R 2016:3, Research report, 2016-05-01)The project Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia ... -
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 16, Report, 2016-10-01)Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing out in the context of urban poverty. Faced with day-to-day challenges for ... -
Violência contra a mulher no contexto da pobreza urbana em Angola
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 16, Report, 2016-10-01)A violência contra as mulheres é uma prática generalizada em Angola, pouco se sabendo ainda sobre a perceção que as mulheres têm deste fenómeno e como elas se relacionam com este problema. Este resumo, que resulta do projeto ... -
Women and Islamisation - Carving a New Space in Muslim Societies
(Research report, Research report, 1997)The diversity in Muslim women's religious practices and positions within contemporary resurgent Islam, often referred to as "Islamic fundamentalism", has so far been given little attention. The different chapters in this ...