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Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: an In-depth Look at Promising Practices

This publication is based on a study about the need for interventions that successfully promote the abandonment of FGM/Cutting.

Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation: Prevalence, Attitudes and Efforts to End the Practice

This book highlights the prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Eritrea, Yemen, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Central African Republic. It gives an understanding of why the practice continues and attitudes regarding FGM. 

Abusing Women, Abusing Islam: Re-Examining Sharia Court Rulings in Contemporary Times

This brief paper is an effort to expose how patriarchal and distorted interpretations of Sharia have been used to subjugate women and rob them of their fundamental rights, in direct opposition to the central teachings of Islam. In this paper, the Muslim Public Affairs Council presents three case...

Afghanistan: Re-establishing the Rule of Law

The section that relates to violence against women begins on page 39 of this report. It addresses violence against women in the family and discuses the fact that the Afghan Criminal Code contains no provision that clearly criminalises violence in the private sphere. It discusses the problem of...

Afghanistan:national reconstruction and poverty reduction -- the role of women in Afghanistan’s future
This report was intended to serve as an input for the government’s efforts to address gender disparities. It synthesized existing information and identified critical areas in which gender-responsive actions are likely to enhance growth, poverty reduction and human well-being including in the area...
Africa: Customary Law still Bars Women’s Access to Land
This article argues that despite laws which give women equal rights to land, women continue to be blocked from land control by cultural and economic factors.
African women must know and claim their inheritance rights
Based on an interview with Josephine Nzerem, a leading Nigerian women’s rights activist, this article argues that African women must become more interested and involved in their husbands’ and fathers' financial activities to protect their inheritance and property rights which key to female economic...
Agrarian change, gender and land rights
In a preface to the book, the UNRISD Director wrote: “The contributions to this volume explore how the deflationary macro-economic policies and processes associated with economic liberalisation are impacting on rural livelihoods and agrarian change in diverse political economies, focusing in...
Agricultural production and women’s rights to land in sub-Saharan Africa
All Her Worldly Goods: Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights