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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

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Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Journal article

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

Keywords

Overview

Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]

Journal article

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

01/11/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how African women have embraced the blogging phenomenon, and how blogs can be used to promote women’s equality and empowerment. One of the reasons frequently cited for a lack of interest by African women in information and communications technologies (ICTs) is the lack of content available that is relevant to their needs. […]

Media briefing

Women and Children First: On the frontline of the war in the Kivus: Oxfam briefing on the protection of women and children in the Kivus, DRC

15/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam and 12 partner NGOs interviewed 816 people in 24 communities in North and South Kivu between 12 and 21 April 2010 on their security and protection in a context of ongoing military offensives. This was Oxfam’s fourth such protection assessment in the Kivus since 2007, and focused specifically on areas affected by the military […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Journal article

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

Keywords

Overview

Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]

Journal article

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

01/11/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how African women have embraced the blogging phenomenon, and how blogs can be used to promote women’s equality and empowerment. One of the reasons frequently cited for a lack of interest by African women in information and communications technologies (ICTs) is the lack of content available that is relevant to their needs. […]

Media briefing

Women and Children First: On the frontline of the war in the Kivus: Oxfam briefing on the protection of women and children in the Kivus, DRC

15/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam and 12 partner NGOs interviewed 816 people in 24 communities in North and South Kivu between 12 and 21 April 2010 on their security and protection in a context of ongoing military offensives. This was Oxfam’s fourth such protection assessment in the Kivus since 2007, and focused specifically on areas affected by the military […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Journal article

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

Keywords

Overview

Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]

Journal article

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

01/11/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how African women have embraced the blogging phenomenon, and how blogs can be used to promote women’s equality and empowerment. One of the reasons frequently cited for a lack of interest by African women in information and communications technologies (ICTs) is the lack of content available that is relevant to their needs. […]

Media briefing

Women and Children First: On the frontline of the war in the Kivus: Oxfam briefing on the protection of women and children in the Kivus, DRC

15/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam and 12 partner NGOs interviewed 816 people in 24 communities in North and South Kivu between 12 and 21 April 2010 on their security and protection in a context of ongoing military offensives. This was Oxfam’s fourth such protection assessment in the Kivus since 2007, and focused specifically on areas affected by the military […]