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Analyses, Agreements and Resolutions: Legal, Comparative and Advocacy Resources

Family Law Reform:
  • Advocacy Resources including CEDAW Reports
  • Legal Resources including Muslim family codes comparison
  • Country-specific legal texts
  • Bibliographies on Muslim Family Law
 29 countries have reached the 30 percent mark in women's representation in parliament; at least 24 of those 29 have used quotas. 
— UN Women
Gender Justice: Key to Achieving the Millenium Development Goals

Political Participation:
  • Data on Women's Representation in Politics
  • Quotas database and report
  • International legal agreements including the Beijing Platform, ICCPR and CPRW
  • Glossary and additional online ressources

Women's Human Rights:
  • CEDAW text and optional protocol
  • CEDAW advocacy material: "Equality without reservation" campaign, report in the Arab World, guides and learning resources
  • CEDAW status in WLP countries

Women, Peace and Security:
  • UN Security Council Resolutions
  • 1325 National Action Plans and 1325+10 materials
  • Violence Against Women reports and resolutions
Alerts & Updates
Women’s Rights in Transitions to Democracy: Achieving Rights Resisting Backlash
May 22, 2012 | 2012 Events, AWID Forum, Claiming Equal Citizenship, democratic transition, Leading to Action, MENA, Middle East, Political Participation
 
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Strategizing for Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in the MENA Region
May 8, 2012 | Leading to Action, Political Participation
In April 2012, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) published Strategizing for Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities for Women in the MENA Region. This white paper compiles many of the insights presented during a WLP-convened March 2, 2012 strategy meeting of activists and experts from across the world who discussed the causes, consequences, threats and opportunities presented by the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past year and a half.
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Time for Formal Legal Status: An Update on Women's Rights to Collective Lands in Morocco
May 7, 2012 | Leading to Action, Middle East, Morocco, Political Participation
Following five years of mobilization by women of collective lands (Soulaliyates) in Morocco, with the tireless support of WLP Morocco/Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM), and after the publication of two ministerial circulars (July 2009 and October 2010) recognizing the right of women to compensation related to land sales, on March 30, 2012 the Ministry of Interior released a new circular (Circular 17).
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Iran Women's Movement
May 7, 2012 | Human Rights, Iran, Iran's One Million Signatures Campaign, OMS Inside Story
Our work in support of Iranian human rights activists has focused specifically on bolstering the women’s movement and the One Million Signatures campaign in Iran. One Million Signatures Campaign This campaign, founded in 2006, mobilizes a diverse group of activists both on the ground and online to collect signatures, raise awareness, and spark dialogue about the negative impact of discriminatory family laws on women’s lives and on society as a whole, resulting in a dynamic social justice movement.
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