In democratic parliaments, MPs are elected by the citizens. Some electoral systems upon which MPs are elected are based on geographic constituencies (either single MP or multiple MPs per constituen…
The increasing attention given to issues relating to the reproductive rights of women is a fairly new phenomenon arising out of worldwide campaigns. Allthought the current attention given to issue…
Control and Sexuality by Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Vanja Hamzić examines zina laws in some Muslim contexts and communities in order to explore connections between the criminalisation of sexuality, gen…
In 1998, the author, a feminist lawyer, carried out a research project on behalf of Oxfam GB, studying Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Albania. Maguire disc…
Compiled by Sonia Correa, former Research Co-ordinator for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, this books presents a collection of case studies and documents that bring to a close DAWN’s efforts in t…
The role of women in decision-making was central to the advancement of women around the world and to the progress of humankind as a whole, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said this morning at the Head…
Statistics paint a horrifying picture of the social and health consequences of violence against women and children. For women aged 15 to 44 years, violence is a major cause of death and disability.…
Cambodia is considered to be a post-conflict society where the roots of many contemporary problems lie in the country’s tumultuous history. Juxtaposed between Thailand and Vietnam, Cambodia has l…
The role of women in decision-making was central to the advancement of women around the world and to the progress of humankind as a whole, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said this morning at the Head…
Australia’s accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 2008 offers a new way in which women’s human rights can be ad…
This manual is about women's human rights in practice. It describes in simple language and in a practical manner the concept and content of human rights law and its application to women and the rig…
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of…
Despite the post war existence of an international women's human rights regimen, it is only since 1970s, when there was a significant expansion and strengthening of this regimen, that norms of sexu…
When the African Biodiversity Network and the Gaia Foundation came to AWDF with the idea of a report on Africanwomen and seed, our team was intrigued and delighted. As African women, many of us had…
Study of women's rights activists who respond to conflict or crises in their countries. In 2003 the Urgent Action Fund launched a year-long project identifying concrete ways to improve internationa…
Restorative Justice for Domestic Violence Victims uses a rich and detailed set of interviews and complementary survey data to make a strong case for introducing restorative justice principles into …
Violence against women (VAW) is a violation of human rights which is a form of discrimination against women. It is a manifestation of historically and structurally unequal power relations and inequ…
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) framework and its applicability for advocacy regarding women migrants and their rights. This publication takes women’s migration for work as an illustration t…
Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Issues and Sources is a review of literature dealing with political, economic and social reconstruction from a gender perspective. One of its objectives is t…
Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common to women in a male-dominated society. But because society persists in viewing disability as an emblem of passi…