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.
This document summarises background papers on topics around Muslim law, Muslim families and gender discourses.
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- Towards Gender Equality: Muslim family laws and the Shari’ah by Ziba Mir-Hosseini
- Ikhtilaf Al-Fuqaha: Diversity in fiqh as social construction by Muhammad Khalid Masud
- Islam beyond Patriarchy through Gender Inclusive Qur’anic Analysis by Amina Wadud
- The Genesis of Family Law: How shari’ah, custom and colonial laws influenced the development of personal status codes by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
- Family Law in Contemporary Muslim Contexts: Triggers and strategies for change by Cassandra Balchin
- Women’s Place and Displacement in the Muslim Family: Realities from the twenty-first century by Kamala Chandrakirana
- The human rights Commitment in Modern Islam by Khaled Abou El Fadl
- Opening Speech by Zainah Anwar, Musawah Project Director Global Meeting for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family 14 February 2009, Kuala Lumpur
- Annexe 2: How You Can Get Involved
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 4 deals with structures and framework for actions.
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- Individuals and Groups
- Musawah Ways of Working: Knowledge Building, Outreach and International Advocacy
- The Story of the Musawah Framework for Action
- Musawah Launched
- Annexe 1: Examples of Advocacy Guides and Manuals for You to Adapt
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.
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- To Promote and Protect Equality
- Led by Muslim Women
- Women and Men
- Publicly Reclaim Islam’s Spirit of Justice For All
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.
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- Why Equality and Justice?
- Equality and Substantive Equality
- Equality in the Family is the Foundation for Equality in Society
- Families are Central to Our Lives
- Safe and Happy Space, Equally Empowering for All
- The Muslim Family and Families in All Their Multiple Forms
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.
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- Musawah’ s Hope for Equality
- Musawah Key Messages
- The Musawah Principles
- Why ‘Musawah’?
- Global
- Movement
- Equality in the family
- Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family are Necessary
- The Time for Equality and Justice is Now!
- Holistic Framework
- Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family are Possible
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.
- The Musawah key messages, a statement of our Hope for Equality, and the Musawah Principles;
- Explanations for the main terms in the key messages and the Musawah Framework;
- Suggested activities for you to do on your own or with a group of Advocates or your constituencies, to start thinking about Musawah and discussing its approach;
- Suggested follow-up activities like accessing audio-visual clips of Musawah Advocates speaking about their experiences and ideas; information to find out or to research to do and share with other Advocates; resources to read and websites to check out.
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.
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Human Rights Committee
- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Committee against Torture
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:
- International Human Rights Standards on Abortion
- National Abortion Law Trends and Changes since 1994, covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and abortion law reform at the state level in federal systems.
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.
