Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Women's rights in Muslim laws : a resource document

Imam, Ayesha M and Fijabi, Mufuliat and Akilu-Atta, Hurera | cop. 2005
  • Author(s): Imam, Ayesha M and Fijabi, Mufuliat and Akilu-Atta, Hurera
  • Publisher: BAOBAB for women's human rights
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, muslim women, islamic law, islamic countries
This document provides information about a range of laws that directly affect women in Muslim societies. These laws, despite their considerable diversity, may all claim legitimacy from Islam, from fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence or legal thinking) and thus to be Sharia (Muslim laws).

Gender report card on the International criminal court 2010

Inder, Brigid | 2010
  • Author(s): Inder, Brigid
  • Publisher: Women's initiatives for gender justice
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: courts, jurisdiction, justice, institutional machinery, gender equality
This is the sixth Gender Report Card produced by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. It assesses the implementation by the International Criminal Court of the Rome Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crimes and in particular the gender mandates they embody.

Gender report card on the International criminal court 2009

Inder, Brigid | 2009
  • Author(s): Inder, Brigid
  • Publisher: Women's initiatives for gender justice
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: courts, jurisdiction, justice, institutional machinery, gender equality
The Gender Report Card provides the most comprehensive gender analysis of the International Criminal Court currently available. This publication by the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice analyses the institutional development and the substantive work of each organ of the Court during 2009.

The gender gap in African political participation : individual and contextual determinants

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie and Kotsadam, Andreas and Nerman, Mهns | 2012
  • Author(s): Isaksson, Ann-Sofie and Kotsadam, Andreas and Nerman, Mهns
  • Publisher: University of Gothenburg. School of business, economics and law. Department of economics
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: elections, gender equality, political participation
The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors underlying the gender gap in African electoral and inter-electoral political participation. The empirical findings suggest that while there is a gender gap in both voting and inter-electoral participation, the latter is larger.

Gender and local governance in Pakistan : representation vs. participation

Jabeen, Nasira and Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Muhammad | 2009
  • Author(s): Jabeen, Nasira and Zafar Iqbal Jadoon, Muhammad
  • Publisher: Academic journals
  • Pages: 264--276
  • Keywords: political participation, political representation, women, pakistan
Applying a holistic gender organization system (GOS), this article analyses the diverse societal, institutional and individual factors that account for low participation of women in governance in Pakistan and suggests measures to facilitate women's effective particvipation
 

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