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The exhibition looks at women's dress in some Muslim countries and communities and is a snapshot of diversities and commonalities through space and time. These highlight the influence of many forces – class, status, region, work, religious interpretation, ethnicity, urban/rural, politics, fashion, climate.

Cette exposition ne peut donner qu‘un bref aperçu des spécificités et des points communs qu‘on retrouve au cours des siècles ou par delà les continents, et qui mettent en relief l‘influence de multiples forces et facteurs : la classe, le statut, la région, le métier, les interprétations religieuses, l‘appartenance ethnique, le mode de vie rural ou urbain, la

The goal of reducing gender inequalities in political representation has been elusive in many different kinds of political systems, even though women have made substantial progress in legal rights, education, economic resources, employment opportunities, and healthcare in the same polities. This book argues that gender quotas are an important strategy to improve women's political representation in legislatures and political parties and it lays out the history of this approach across the globe.

This book breaks the myth of Muslim women being passive, oppressed and apolitical. It retrieves the mostly forgotten lives and voices of women from the eighth to the early twentieth centuries in Muslim countries and communities who asserted rights for themselves and for other women, promoting justice in the home and in the public sphere.

Three working papers for the women's inheritance and property rights theme were written under the WRRC Programme:

One of the most fundamental stumbling blocks encountered and reported by the project partners of the WRRC-SWG was the difficulty of adequately addressing the many and diverse issues around the denial and oppression of women’s rights in sexuality, especially in the context of fundamentalist and anti-women ‘religious’ interpretations and practices, which are spreading in many parts of the globe, in particular, in Asian and African countries, with disastrous consequences for women’s rights and well-being.

 

The multi-country network on Women's Inheritance and Property Rights (WIPR) organised panels at the World Social Forum (7-9 February 2011, Dakar), which focused on three key topics:

Oxfam is a global movement of people working with others to overcome poverty and suffering. 

OHCHR is the United Nations office with primary responsibility for promoting and protecting the enjoyment and full realization of human rights for all. The website contains all information, publication and link related with human rights; bodies, treaties, instruments. 

Relevant web pages: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/WomenAndHousing.aspx - 35k - 2010-10-24;

Musawah - for Equality in the Family is a good source generally on equality in the family and Muslim communities.
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