This article reflects on contemporary struggles for citizenship rights through an examination of civil society’s advocacy for the passage of domestic violence legislation in…
While the use of affirmative action to increase women’s political participation in societies where socio-cultural factors militate against women’s political interests, popular measures do not g…
Women face many barriers in accessing markets for their agricultural products. Collective action (CA) has been identified as a potential option to overcome such barriers and empower them. As such, …
"The Women's Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) would like to highlight key concerns regarding the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and is expected to be finally adopted during the T…
Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. We eva…
This case study takes a personal look at legal action taken against a Zambian hotel in Lusaka during the period 1984–1992 to stop their discrimination against women in access to the hotel. The …
Women face many barriers in accessing markets for their agricultural products. Collective action (CA) has been identified as a potential option to overcome such barriers and empower them. As such, …