Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Gendered impacts of globalization : employment and social protection

Razavi, Shahra | 2012
  • Author(s): Razavi, Shahra
  • Publisher: United nations research institute for social development (UNRISD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: employment, social security, globalization, economic development, gender, women, men
This paper examines how globalization affects gendered access to employment and social protection, with a particular focus on informal employment, and the implications of these connections for policy and practice.

Women's access to justice : problems and challenge

Razzaq, Hamid | 2007]
  • Author(s): Razzaq, Hamid
  • Publisher: Women and children legal research foundation (WCLRF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women, justice, afghanistan
This research exames women’s access to justice in Afghanistan and analyses the socio-legal obstacles facing women’s access to justice. It also discusses the justice system in regards to its accessibility for women and to provide relevant policy recommendations.

Afghanistan : \"we have the promises of the world\" : women's rights in Afghanistan

Reid, Rachel | cop. 2009
  • Author(s): Reid, Rachel
  • Publisher: Human rights watch (HRW)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, sex discrimination, political participation, justice, afghanistan
This report details emblematic cases of ongoing rights violations in five areas: attacks on women in public life; violence against women; child and forced marriage; access to justice; and girls' access to secondary education.

Working with young women : empowerment, rights and health

Ricardo, Christine | 2008]
  • Author(s): Ricardo, Christine
  • Publisher: Promundo etc.
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women's rights, gender equality, women, capacity building, empowerment, manuals
This manual, part of an initiative called Program M, includes group educational activities to promote young women's awareness about gender inequities, rights and health. It also seeks to develop their skills to feel more capable of acting in empowered ways in different spheres of their lives.

Pious Islam and women's activism in Indonesia

Rinaldo, Rachel | 2008
  • Author(s): Rinaldo, Rachel
  • Publisher: Michigan state university. Women and international development (WID)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: islam, fundamentalism, muslim women, social action, social movements, women's rights, indonesia
Can Islamic piety be a resource for Muslim women's political mobilization? Based on ethnographic research in Jakarta, Indonesia, it is argued that the institutional aspects of Islamic piety, and the redefinition of Islamic piety as public practice, help to promote women's political participation.
 

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