Together with rural, indigenous and women workers in the community, we were able to conduct research and advocacy. At the end of the programme, we can see, feel and know that we have envolved. …
For sisters in Islam, Musawa was in some ways a vindication of a long and difficult struggle to find liberation within our faith and to translate into collective action our belief in a just God.
Victims of sexual assault experience their trauma in different ways, and often one path to recovery and healing is right for one person, but not right for another. While there are some general ment…
How should the needs of victims of crime be met by the criminal justice system? Have the rights of victims been neglected in order to ensure that a defendant is brought to 'justice'? Who are the vi…
Written by internationally renowned experts, each chapter provides a full introduction to a key aspect of research methodology. From starting out to generating, analysing, and presenting data, this…
Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginni…
Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that it is the whole of the …
Feminist engagement with law has taken a variety of forms over the years. Through litigation, campaigns for legal reform and legal education, feminists have engaged explicitly with law and the lega…
This book explores the rise and fall of a grassroots, girl-centered organization, GirlZone, which sought to make social change on a local level. Whether skateboarding or designing Web pages, celebr…
This book argues that the identities and activities commonly associated with women have been eliminated from the theories formulated about international relations. The author points out that these …
This edited collection seeks to unearth the hidden or unexamined implications of some of these crime control policies. Specifically, the chapters examine the policy implications for women and, when…
The book is designed for students in law, philosophy, political science, sociology, and women's studies who wish to gain an understanding of this new field of study. It also designed for the genera…
the book is an initiative to advance our understanding of feminist movements in the current global context, and to apply that understanding to strengthening the capacity of women's organizations to…
This book is an expression of 20 years of history of the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women’s Rights (CLADEM) in their defence of women’s rights as well as the outc…
In October 2007, the Youth Coalition collaborated with CREA and CWGL (Centre for Women’s Global Leadership) to organize an international multigenerational dialogue, entitled Listening to Each Oth…
It explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies, and politics in communities as diverse as the rubber tappers in the rainforests of Brazil and activist groups fighting environmental raci…
This book discusses the experiences of women peacemakers in areas of conflicts and the role they can play in promoting peace. Ritu Menon writes on how women's peace activism can play a positive med…
This book has explored the social and political meaning of legal claims in feminist struggle, and particularly within the development of theoritical framework. This theoretical perspective on the r…
DAWN, a global organisation of Southern activist feminists and scholars started in 1984,seeks to develop a critical feminist perspective on development alternatives and systematic critique of the d…
The DAWWN project on PR & ST seeks, among other things, to critique or challenge mainstream 'governance' or political reform ideas which have arise in the context of economic globalisatio nand expo…