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Pathways of Women's EmpowermentopenDemocracy brings you the voices and views of women working all over the world including Ghana, Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Nigeria as part of an on going partnership with the Institute of Development Studies. Academics, activists and practitioners working as part of the research and communications programme ask, "'what works' to empower women?". See also the related blog We would like to thank The Barrow Cadbury Trust and The Instititute of Development Studies, Sussex University, for supporting this project. In her concluding report from the launch of
a global initiative to reform Muslim Family Law, Cassandra Balchin finds
solidarity in diversity and a growing convergence around human rights values.
Muslim scholars and activists from forty eight countries are today
launching a global initiative insisting that in the twenty first
century "there cannot be justice without equality" between men and
women.
Sky rocketing rates of women's employment in Muslim countries and recent scholarship that has developed a vision of Islam that insists on equality between men and women, mean that the global pressure to reform Muslim family law is mounting, writes Cassandra Balchin.
Jane Gabriel meets the actors and writers of the Cairo-based Women and Memory forum. Listen now
Meeting women's rights activists in Salvador, Brazil, Jane Gabriel finds there can be no talk of empowerment without first tackling endemic violence. Listen now
Development policy is embracing market-led growth and neglecting gender equality
Hussaina Abdullah spoke to Jane Gabriel about rebuilding civil society in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of civil war. Listen now
Despite an effective women's movement, Brazil has one of the lowest rates of female political participation in the world. Why?
What has happened to the argument for women's human rights in international policy? Rosalind Eyben of IDS, Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay of the Royal Tropical Insititute in the Netherlands and Helen O'Connell of One World Action spoke to Jane Gabriel. Listen now
The new interest in "masculinities" risks losing the gender-justice dimension. It's time to talk
How the feminisation of labour markets is changing women, men, and the world economy
Islam's rise is also opportunity for young
urban women
Listen now to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana
plus: tackling domestic violence in Africa
The reform of Egypt's family-law system was intended to advance women's rights. Has it worked?
Listen now to Dr Hania Sholkamy on gender and empowerment in Egypt, and the challenge of engaging with global feminism
Women’s real, diverse journeys make a progressive-sounding orthodoxy look stale
Andrea Cornwall, Srilatha Batliwala, Cecilia Sardenberg and Anne Marie Goetz talk to Jane Gabriel about feminism and gender in a neo-liberal age. Listen now
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