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The Musawah Toolkit for Advocates is a compilation of texts that explain and expand the Musawah key messages. It is a tool for building knowledge and mobilising (doing advocacy) on equality and justice in the family.
Chapter 3 focuses on the idea of an inclusive movement.
Table of Contents
The Musawah Toolkit for Advocates is a compilation of texts that explain and expand the Musawah key messages. It is a tool for building knowledge and mobilising (doing advocacy) on equality and justice in the family.
Chapter 2 deals with equality, justice and the Muslim family in its multiple forms.
Table of Contents
The Musawah Toolkit for Advocates is a compilation of texts that explain and expand the Musawah key messages. It is a tool for building knowledge and mobilising (doing advocacy) on equality and justice in the family.
Chapter 1 introduces the Musawah key messages and principles. It also deals with Musawah as a movement, its origins and objectives.
Table of Contents
The Musawah Toolkit for Advocates is a compilation of texts that explain and expand the Musawah key messages. It is a tool for building knowledge and mobilising (doing advocacy) on equality and justice in the family.
In order to build our movement and reach out to as many women and men as possible, Musawah want to make these principles and arguments accessible, and show how they are relevant to local activism. This resource also is to be shared with other activists, potential allies, media, policymakers, and women and men affected by the issues what our movement is about and what it does.
A briefing paper by the Center for Reproductive Rights.
This paper takes an in-depth look at the standards developed by six United Nations (UN) “treaty monitoring bodies,” or committees, in the areas of female genital mutilation (FGM) and other harmful practices.
Following a brief overview of the origin and work of the committees, the briefing paper reviews standards each body has adopted as it has monitored governments’ compliance with their duties under international human rights law.
The paper concludes with recommendations to the committees for their future treatment of FGM and other harmful practices.
This briefing paper by Center for Reproductive Rights chronologically captures worldwide trends regarding reforms made to abortion legislation.
The paper covers:
A multi-country research study by CREA on violence faced by disabled women, lesbian women, and female sex workers.
Covering three countries in South Asia—Bangladesh, India, and Nepal—this study investigates the hypothesis that women who are outside the mainstream of South Asian society suffer higher rates of violence and are often unable to seek and receive protection from State agencies.
Carole Vance
“Interrogating Consent” is the second of a ten-part essay series prepared for the Global Dialogue on Decriminalisation, Choice and Consent, organised by CREA, held between 22-24 October 2014.
Sexual history in the past several hundred years has been marked by a series of battles about trying to legitimise people’s ability to engage in sexual behaviour they desired, even though it had been defined as criminal. Gradually and unevenly, the reproductive standard of sexual legitimacy was replaced by a standard of consent, which often involved non-reproductive sex and pleasure.
Mindy Jane Roseman, Jaime Todd-Gher and Sara Hossain
“Consent and International Human Rights Law” is the third of a ten-part essay series prepared for the Global Dialogue on Decriminalisation, Choice and Consent, organised by CREA, held between 22-24 October 2014.
…Much of the problem here comes back to the idea of ‘protective’ versus ‘enabling’ rights. When we consider consent outside the law we can focus on individual autonomy. But as soon as we look at consent under the law, it becomes framed in protective terms; in other words as a question of who cannot consent and who must be protected.
Elisa Slattery, Sonia Correa and Rupsa Mallik
“Abortion and Consent” is the fifth of a ten-part essay series prepared for the Global Dialogue on Decriminalisation, Choice and Consent, organised by CREA, held between 22-24 October 2014.
Anti-abortion movements in Catholic countries are generally attributed to the Church’s values and doctrines. Historically speaking, however, this isn’t entirely accurate. In Brazil, for example, colonial criminal law that overlapped with medieval canonical law criminalised a wide range of sexual acts; but abortion was never one of them. However, the Brazilian Penal Code in 1830, adopted soon after Brazil’s independence in 1822, criminalised the practice of abortion – punishing agents of abortion, but not women who aborted. This law was in place for 39 years before the Catholic Church finally adopted a dogmatic position against abortion, after debating the matter for many centuries[…]Why does this history matter? Well, we generally think about anti-abortion campaigns as being linked to the influence of religion. But in reality, a closer look at history shows us that criminal laws around abortion directly came from the politics and policies of ‘managing’ populations and legislating a certain code of morality onto women’s bodies.
