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Bibliothèque de France/Féminisme et études de genre

Une base de documentation très riche. Liste des signets intéressent: Atelier féministe méditerranéen d'études sur le genre Base de données du Secrétariat général de l'ONU sur la violence contre les femmes Bridge : development gender Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir Condition féminine Canada...

Bint el Nas (arabe, anglais)

Bint el Nas son site est conçu pour répondre aux besoins et intérêts des femmes transgenres qui s'identifient comme gais, lesbiennes, bisexuelles, et / ou transgenres (y compris les femmes-hommes et hommes-trans féminine personnes * en tout état de transition), et qui sont identifiées...

Booklet on FGM

An information material on the types of FGM practised in Ethiopia, its prevalence and severe forms found among both Ethiopian and Somali societies.

Bringing Equality Home: Promoting and Protecting the Inheritance Rights of Women: A survey of Law and practice in Sub-Saharan Africa

This report documents the tragic reality that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in Sub-Saharan Africa (including Nigeria and Senegal) – regardless of their marital status- cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own rights. Instead...

Caste and Matriclan Structures in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Preliminary Report on Fieldwork in Akkaraipattu
Centre arabe pour l'information et de ressources sur la violence contre les femmes-Amaan (arabe)
C’est centre avec pour objectifs de sensibiliser les femmes sur leurs droits fondamentaux, organiser des sessions de formation, élargir le réseau d’action et de solidarité
CEWLA (arabe; Egypte)
CEWLA est un organisme communautaire créé en 1995 dans le but de fournir un appui à l'autorité juridique de la femme égyptienne dans la Constitution et les lois égyptiennes et les conventions internationales.
Change for Equality

This is the main website for one of the two Tehran branches of the One Million Signatures Campaign to change gender discriminatory laws in Iran (this site hosted by Parvin Ardalan). There is a good selection of articles on violence against women here, which is regularly updated. The articles...

Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa
Across rural Africa, land legislation struggles to be properly implemented, and most resource users gain access to land on the basis of local land tenure systems. There is growing recognition that land laws must build on local practice. In recent years, several African countries have adopted...
Changing customary land rights and gender relations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa
The effect of prime age adult death and its consequences on access to land for the survivors has not been fully explored nor incorporated into policy regardless of the fact that high adult mortality is now the lived reality in countries affected by HIV /AIDS, particularly in Africa. This paper...