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Property Rights of Women in Nigeria as Impediment to Full Realisation of Economic and Social Rights
The paper examines the legal effect of economic and social rights in Nigeria and relates this to the property rights of women in the capacity of a daughter, a wife and a widow. It argues that the property rights of women in its practical manifestation does not actualise  economic and social...
Proposals on Reform to State Land Housing Legislation and Policy

This publication identified discriminatory laws and policies in relation to state land and housing allocation and makes recommendations for reform.

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.  

Recent Developments in the Land Law of the Sudan: A Legislative Analysis
Redefining the boundaries of control : post-colonial tenure policies and dynamics of social and tenure change in western Niger
Referensi bagi Hakim Peradilan Agama tentang Kekerasan dalam Rumah Tangga (Reference for Religious Court Judges on Domestic Violence)

This book’s aim is to encourage ‘alternative’ interpretations to and participate in the enforcement of justice with regards to domestic violence. Chapter 2 discusses the unequal relations between men and women, and gives historical background to the social construction of this inequality....

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...

Religion Opinion of Ayatollah Saanei

Grand Ayatollah Saanei, a former member of the Council of Guardians (1980-1981), and Iran’s Prosecutor General (1982-1985) states that in our time, i.e. during the absence of the 12th Imam, and according to jurisprudential views of some noted ulama such as Mirzay-e Qomi...

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

On page 10 of this report, the UNGA denounces stoning as a method of execution, and mentions the work of civil society to suspend stoning verdicts (i.e. The Stop Stoning Forever Campaign.) The report also reminded us that when the last periodic report of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the...