Women's Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation

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International roundtable: Building feminist leadership capacity

International roundtable: Building feminist leadership capacity

11/06/2016

The Building Feminist Leadership Roundtable (May 21-22, 2014, Kandy, Sri Lanka) was organised by WELDD, a four-year project (2012-2015) jointly implemented by Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre (SG), the Institute for Women ...

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Violence against Women Legitimised by Arguments of ‘Culture’ – Thought from a Pakistani Perspective

Violence against Women Legitimised by Arguments of ‘Culture’ – Thought from a Pakistani Perspective

14/12/2015

Farida Shaheed examines violence against women legitimised by arguments of culture from a Pakistani perspective. ...

RIWPS Afghanistan: Training on Women’s Rights from Islamic Perspective

RIWPS Afghanistan: Training on Women’s Rights from Islamic Perspective

14/12/2015

In 2014, the Institute for Women’s Peace and Security (RIWPS) in Afghanistan, in conjunction with WLUML-WELDD, conducted trainings and workshops on women’s rights from an Islamic perspective. The main emphasis of this training ...

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Frequently Asked Questions About ‘Honour Killing’

Frequently Asked Questions About ‘Honour Killing’

17/11/2015

An “honour killing” is a murder committed against a woman for actual or perceived “immoral” behaviour that is deemed to have breached the ‘honour code’ of a household or community. These so called ‘honour codes’ ar ...

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Frequently Asked Questions About Whipping

Frequently Asked Questions About Whipping

10/11/2015

Whipping which refer to the judicial punishment by which a person is lashed with a long, heavy rattan or a whip. Historically, whipping has been used as a punishment in almost every religious and cultural setting, from Ancient Chi ...

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Frequently Asked Questions about Stoning

Frequently Asked Questions about Stoning

09/11/2015

Stoning, or lapidation, refers to a method of capital punishment in which a group throws stones at the person they want to execute. Although the practice has been documented in many religious and cultural traditions, stoning is of ...

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Culturally Justified Violence Against Women (CVAW)

Culturally Justified Violence Against Women (CVAW)

02/11/2015

The UN "Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women" (UNDEVAW) affirms that "States should condemn violence against women and should not invoke any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligatio ...

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Child, Early and Forced Marriage: A Multi-Country Study

Child, Early and Forced Marriage: A Multi-Country Study

30/07/2015

In 2012 WLUML conducted a study to inform the activities of the WELDD projects against forced marriage in Afghanistan, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, and Sudan. The study was then documented in this report which was submitted ...

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Post-2015 Advocacy Toolkit

Post-2015 Advocacy Toolkit

21/07/2015

Girls Not Brides have created this toolkit because we are at a critical time in the discussions on the next set of global development goals. Child, early and forced marriage and the needs of adolescent girls were notably missing f ...

News

Jusuf Kalla (Vice President of Republic Indonesia) questions curfew in Banda Aceh

Jusuf Kalla (Vice President of Republic Indonesia) questions curfew in Banda Aceh

16/06/2015

The capital of Aceh province has imposed a partial curfew for women that it says will reduce sexual violence but which critics say is discriminatory, the Associated Press has reported. Ninik Rahayu from the Indonesian Institute f ...

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