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Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world - 3rd edition

This third and completely revised version of the "Knowing Our Rights" handbook is an essential resource for those taking a critical and questioning approach to rights, laws, and constructions of womanhood in Muslim countries and communities and beyond. "Knowing Our Rights" forms part of the...

Land, law & Islam: Property and human rights in the Muslim World. .

In this pioneering work, Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary debates and their practice. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the “webs of...

Learning about Social Change: A Research and Evaluation Guidebook Using Female Genital Mutilation as a Case Study

Interest curtailing the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has increased in the past 20 years. Although the political and legal environment towards the practice is more hostile, this awareness has yet to translate itself to measurable changes in prevalence. At the local level activities...

L’Institut Émilie du Châtelet

L’Institut a pour objectifs la promotion des recherches sur les femmes, le sexe et le genre; leur intégration au corpus des savoirs communs; le développement de ces recherches dans toutes les disciplines; la multiplication des enseignements sur ces savoirs; la synergie entre le monde de la...

L’ONUSIDA
Le Programme commun des Nations Unies sur le VIH/sida, est un projet novateur de la famille des Nations Unies, qui rassemble les efforts et les ressources de 10 organisations du système des Nations Unies dans la riposte mondiale au sida afin d’aider le monde à prévenir les nouvelles infections à...
Murder in the Name of Honour

This book is a journalistic account of Rana Husseini’s journey from “a naive but enthusiastic and stubborn journalist to the campaigns to change Jordanian law, as well as (her) experiences in other countries in the Middle East, and investigations into so-called honour killings across Europe (...

Muslim women and property rights

This paper examines the rights to property accorded to women in Islam under direct Quranic injunctions and compares it with the state of these rights in present Muslim societies. It argues that the correct application of Quranic laws will not only materially improve the status of women in Muslim...

Negotiating Islamic Property Rights in UN HABITAT: Policy Makers guide to Women’s Land, Property and Housing Rights Across the World

The author argues that nothing under Islamic law prohibits women from having equal access to property rights through an integrated and compensatory property rights regime. Under the integrated Islamic approach to women’s property rights, a woman’s reduced inheritance rights are theoretically...

New Issues in Refugee Research. Witchcraft Allegations, Refugee Protection and Human Rights: A Review of the Evidence

This paper examines the link between witchcraft accusations and displacement. Accusations may cause displacement through forced exile or the personal decision to flee from the threat of harm. Some of the numerous explanations for witchcraft accusations are introduced, before turning to the ways...

Partenariat d'apprentissage des femmes pour les droits, le développement et la paix (Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace)

WLP à pour but le leadership et le pouvoir d’action des femmes. WLP construit des réseaux en travaillant avec 18 organisations partenaires dans le Grand Sud, particulièrement dans les sociétés à majorité musulmane afin de donner aux femmes la possibilité d’améliorer leur vie de famille, leurs...