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Post conflict land challenges in Muslim contexts
Presentation made at the WIPR Capacity Building Workshop, 14-18 June 2010
The presentation focused on the decision of the Religious Appellate Court of Jakarta which recognized women’s equal right to inheritance.
Preventing Maternal Deaths

This publication discusses the experience of childbirth and the difficulties faced by women and children. It also gives statistics on trends in maternal mortality rates and the issue of birth control and spacing. 

Protocol to Study the Effects of FGM on psycho-sexual health

This is a tool design to investigate the effects of FGM on the psycho-sexual health of women and girls.

Reaching Adolescents with Sexual and Reproductive health messages – GAMCOTRAP

This book is a bid to reach out to young people with messages of reproductive health, such as the effects of FGM and the empowerment of young girls.  

Rejecting ‘Cultural’ Justifications for Violence Against Women: Strategies for Women’s Rights Advocates

This Strategy Paper argues that a structural cause for the persisting violence [against women] is the use of ‘culture’ to legitimise it. So a crucial step is to reject the ‘cultural’ excuses that are used to justify and thereby perpetuate such violence. Without taking this crucial step, no...

Report of the Special Rapporteaur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

In Part (c) Corporal punishment, point 40, the document states with regards to stoning: “Between 2004 and 2007 the Special Rapporteur sent 13 joint communicationsconcerning 21 women sentenced to death by stoning and 2 sentenced to flogging under sharialaw.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Addendum 1, International, regional and national development in the area of violence against women 1994-2003

This report contains a detailed review of international, regional, and national developments and best practices for ways and means of combating violence against women over the period 1994-2003. The report is not fully comprehensive, some regions or countries have been reported on in greater...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Cultural practices in the family that are violent towards women

This report documents a number of cultural practices (including FGM, honour killings, and witchcraft allegations) which violate women’s human rights to bodily integrity and to expression, as well as undermining essential values of equality and dignity. These practices and many others constitute...

Resources at Marriage and Intra-household Allocation: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and South Africa
The authors test the unitary versus collective model of the household using specially designed data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Africa. Human capital and individual assets at the time of marriage are used as proxy measures for bargaining power. In all four countries, we reject...