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Universal Health Coverage: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights on the Agenda
Published in 2017
Source: Action for Global Health and Countdown 2030 Europe
This updated paper seeks to show how the World Health Organisation (WHO) definition of universal health coverage (UHC) and its vision of the social determinants of health underpinning UHC relate to SRHR and the enabling factors which affect SRHR. It argues that UHC cannot be truly achieved without addressing SRHR as a matter of priority, […]
Women’s Economic Empowerment
Published in 2017
Source: Overseas Development Institute
Women’s economic empowerment is a global policy priority, captured in related targets for all countries in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Efforts to achieve these targets have been galvanised by initiatives, yet women in the UK and around the world continue to struggle to access equal economic opportunities. This paper highlights the challenges, opportunities, policy […]
Knowing Our Rights: Women, Family, Laws and Customs in the Muslim World
Published in 2017
Source: Women Living Under Muslim Laws
This handbook, a result of 10 years of research and collective analysis is an outcome of the Women & Law in the Muslim World action-research Programme of the international solidarity network, Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML). It covers twenty-six topics relevant to marriage and divorce, including the status of children (paternity and adoption) and […]
Fundamentalisms in Asia-Pacific: Trends, Impact, Challenges And Strategies Asserting Women’s Rights
Published in 2017
Source: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
This report was initiated by APWLD to develop an understanding of fundamentalisms, their impact on women and their relationship with contemporary political and economic developments. The first part maps the manifestations of fundamentalisms in the region through country overviews to call attention to the ways in which women’s rights and democracy are targeted. This is […]
Christian Fundamentalisms and Women’s Rights in the African Context: Mapping the Terrain
Published in 2017
Source: AWID
This case study explores the dynamics of Christian fundamentalisms in sub-Saharan Africa and the impacts of fundamentalist doctrine, advocacy and mobilization on women’s rights in the African context. It aims to begin to elucidate the ways in which activists understand and define Christian fundamentalisms, highlight the agendas and some of the impacts of fundamentalist activity […]
“Woman” in the European Human Rights System: How is the Reproductive Rights Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights Constructing Narratives of Women’s Citizenship?
Published in 2017
Source: Columbia Law School
Reproductive rights are constructed through a gender-conscious reading of already recognised human rights. Despite the increasingly strong recognition of reproductive rights in international human rights law by the treaty-monitoring bodies and international tribunals, the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights reflects a limited understanding of women’s experiences, does not adequately challenge gender stereotypes, […]
Gendered Anxieties: Islam, Women’s Rights, and Moral Hierarchy in Java
Published in 2017
Source: The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research
This paper examines debates that occur in the course of Muslim women’s rights advocacy in Java, Indonesia, to provide critical ethnographic insights into the ways that gender issues and notions of family are implicated in political consciousness about nationhood, religious identity, boundaries, and governance.
Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Priorities: Recommendations for the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Published in 2017
Source: Women’s Major Group
In 2015, the United Nations will review the Millennium Development Goals, and adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thus establishing the broad framework for the global development agenda for the next few decades. This publication aims to summarise contributions by the Women’s Major Group (WMG) members to the discussion on the outcomes of the […]
Realizing Indigenous Women’s Rights
Published in 2017
Source: Tebtebba Foundation
This handbook is an introduction to the human rights of indigenous women. It provides a brief overview of the particular situations of indigenous women in Asia; deals with the principles of human rights and the international human rights instruments providing for the rights of women; presents the different mechanisms and possible options that indigenous women may take to […]
Claiming Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Published in 2017
Source: International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, International Women’s Rights Action Watch–Asia Pacific
This Guide is one of several initiatives aimed at bringing greater recognition and accountability to violations of women’s economic, social and cultural rights. The Guide seeks to provide a practical tool for activists and lawyers to advance the protection and fulfilment of women’s ESC rights through the use of CEDAW and ICESCR’s normative framework and […]