WLUML: Calls for Action - thematic overview

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An international network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.

Thematic overview

For the purpose of categorising material on this website and in our publications, we have developed the following primary and secondary themes which are most appropriate to the work of the network. We do not wish to suggest that ours is definitive - it is merely our way of organizing information which relates to our activities.

The primary themes are:

Empowerment
Fundamentalisms
Law reform
Militarisation
Sexual/reproductive rights & health
Sexuality
State control
Violence against women
UN related

Each is broken down into the following secondary themes:

Empowerment

[empower] women religious leaders
[empower] feminist ancestors
[empower] capacity building initiatives and materials
[empower] women's activism
[empower] general

Fundamentalisms

[fund] persecution of opposition
[fund] promotion and application of religious laws
[fund] co-optation by politico-religious and/or conservative forces
[fund] resisting fundamentalisms
[fund] general
[fund] crossing religious boundaries
[fund] the Qur'an and ...
[fund] Islamophobia
[fund] xenophobia

Law reform

[law] Women and Law - WLUML Programme
[law] feminist interpretations of religious texts
[law] secularism
[law] constitutions
[law] child abduction and child custody
[law] general

Militarisation/armed conflict

[mil] refugee and asylum issues
[mil] war crimes and impunity/accountability
[mil] genocide/incitement in conflicts
[mil] women and peace building initiatives
[mil] general

Sexual/reproductive rights & health

[health] abortion
[health] AIDS/HIV
[health] new reproductive technologies
[health] forced sterilisation and pregnancy
[health] sex workers
[health] general

Sexuality

[sex] lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
[sex] dress codes
[sex] virginity issues
[sex] general

State control

[state] state/NGO relationships
[state] repression of dissent
[state] state, gender, identity
[state] women's political participation
[state] general

Violence against women

[vaw] genital mutilation
[vaw] domestic violence
[vaw] sexual violence
[vaw] early and forced marriages
[vaw] inheritance issues
[vaw] widowhood practices
[vaw] honour crimes
[vaw] laws
[vaw] trafficking
[vaw] general

UN related

[un] declarations and reports
[un] general

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