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Friday, May 02, 2014
Discrimination Against Women in Bahraini Society and Legislation
The attached report was submitted by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights to the CEDAW (Convention for the Eliminatin of Discrimination Against Women) Committee. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, ...
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Friday, May 02, 2014
Report / White Paper
Family Law in Bahrain
This report from Bahrain Center for Human Rights covers the state of family law and its implications for women in Bahrain.   The report includes insight into the following areas: - Overview of Family Law in Bahrain - Divorce Rights, Guardianship and...
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Friday, May 02, 2014
Report / White Paper
Reclaiming and Redefining Rights: ICPD+20: Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
The year 2014 was meant to be the year that ended the Program of Action adopted by the Cairo Conference for Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994. The document was a paradigm shift in understanding and framing reproductive health and rights and...
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Friday, May 02, 2014
Report / White Paper
Varying Perceptions, One Outcome: Field Study Regarding Women’s Rights in Lebanon
Women’s work in the economic sphere, and them being forced to assume productive gender role came as economic necessity and not due to the developing relations between the two genders, their liberation and equality”. This is one of the major outputs...
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Friday, May 02, 2014
Guide / Training Material
Political Party Dialogue: A Facilitator's Guide
Political parties and organizations need to have the capacity to both compete and cooperate. Dialogue among political parties usually takes place within democratic institutions such as national parliaments. Yet parliamentary dialogue alone cannot...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Case Study
Presentation on how social media platforms are used to create positive democratic change
This presentation was give during the iKNOW Politics webinar on Women in Politics Use of ICTs held April 30th 2014 by Ms.Danya Bashir, a Libyan, author, activist and the MENA region Executive Director of Social Media for Change, an innovative NGO...
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Report / White Paper
National Situation Analysis Report: Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equality, Jordan
The programme “Enhancing Equality between Men & Women in the Euromed Region” referred to as the Euromed Gender Equality Programme (EGEP) is of three years duration (15 May 2008-15 May 2011); it is funded through the European Neighbourhood...
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Report / White Paper
Status of Violence against Women in Jordan
Violence against women is a global concern, not restricted to certain peoples,but may differ in the form or size of the phenomenon. All religions emphasize respect for human rights, irrespective of sex, color and race. This is also re-iterated in...
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Report / White Paper
Women's Rights Survey 2010: Jordan
The women’s rights movement in Jordan began in the early 20th century in the form of voluntary social and charitable activities. The Jordanian Women’s Union was established in January 1945, and after the kingdom gained independence from Britain in...
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Report / White Paper
Enhancing youth political participation throughout the electoral cycle
The inclusion of youth in formal politics is important, as the 2011/2012 arab States popular uprisings and various occupy movements have demonstrated. In countries in transition, fresh ideas and new leadership can help to overcome authoritarian...
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Egyptian women campaign for larger role in parliament
Egyptian women today still suffer from cultural, social and political discrimination with no indication from policymakers for progress. Though women attained the right to political participation in 1956, significant development has been minimal. The...
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Morocco, UN Women Sign Partnership Agreement to Promote Gender Equality
The Ministry of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development, and UN Women signed, Wednesday in Rabat, a partnership agreement to promote the institutionalization of the principles of gender equality in the public policy making process in...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Woman breaks taboos, announces candidacy, Lebanon
Nadine Moussa, Lebanon’s first female candidate for the presidency, insists that Lebanon needs a “new social contract,” with women holding half of all parliamentary and governmental posts. “I know what Lebanese women are capable of, and I know how...
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Report / White Paper
Building Digital Bridges MoST's Vision of the Information Society
The past decade has demonstrated in countless ways the transforming effects that information and communication technologies (ICT) can have on the way we live, learn, work, play, and interact with the people and institutions around us.  The ICT...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Morocco women march to demand gender equality
A group of around 800 Moroccans, mostly women, staged a march in the capital Rabat on Sunday demanding that a constitutional guarantee of gender equality be applied in the kingdom. The march from the city centre to parliament was led by the Civil...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Louisa Hanoune, First female candidate to stand for the Algerian presidential elections
Unlike many women she does not hide her age but actually has a tendency to flaunt it, in April she will be fifty: “ The age of the Algerian revolution” she says. This is how she likes to present herself, Louisa Hounane, proud and touching...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Algeria presidential race has one woman that ‘won’t hold back’
KOLEA, Algeria: A string of white pearls around her neck, her hair tied in a bun, Louisa Hanoune, the only woman running for Algeria’s presidency, holds out her palms and declares: “I have clean hands.” The remark triggers an outburst of celebratory...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Report / White Paper
Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly Gender Assessment
NDI organized a gender assessment of Tunisia’s NCA to contribute to a fuller understanding of the following critical factors: • The capacity of women deputies to perform their legislative and representative functions; • The functions and role of...
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