scholarly journals Women’s status in Tunisia post revolution, legal acquis and real achievements

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Nawel Ghali
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract Under the umbrella of democratic transition, a new constitution was written which encourages more for gender equality and provides Tunisian women with further rights, mainly the political ones, to improve more the status of women within the complexity of the Tunisia society. This paper intends to focus on the Gender Gap Index, a methodological approach for the measurement of gender equality published by the World Economic Forum, to examine the regulations on women’s rights in the Tunisian constitution and to connect the statistics with legal achievement in order to try to answer the main research question: to what extent laws about Tunisian women’s rights are translated in practice?

Part II Subsidiary Human Rights Organs, 7 The Commission on the Status of Women

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabasakal Arat Zehra F
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Status ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Operational Structure

This chapter describes the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which was the first international organ ever created to promote women’s rights and equality. The status of women has been on the agenda of the United Nations since its inception and typically addressed as an issue of discrimination in relation to human rights. As the UN’s work on human rights has evolved and expanded, so have its apparatuses and activities on the advancement of women’s rights and status. The CSW played a key role in drafting declarations and treaties that promote women’s rights, organizing world conferences on women, the development of other UN agencies that address women’s issues, and monitoring and evaluating the attention given to women by other agencies. The chapter examines and discusses the CSW’s operational structure, changing agenda, major accomplishments, the difficulties encountered by the Commission, and the controversies surrounding both its work and the UN approach to women’s issues.

scholarly journals Status of Women in Arab society in Pre and Post Islamic period

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-32
Author(s):  
Zeenat Haroon
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

Before the advent of Islam, world was filled with darkness and humanity was dislocated. Under these circumstances in the Arab world no one can comprehend each other. By hook or by crook wealthy people ruled the poor. The Poor were weak and considered rightful for punishment. They were subservience to the ruling class. Inspite of her frailty women situation was awful and being treated badly in all her relationship as mothers, sister, daughter and wives. In this article I have written about the situation of women before the advent of Islam and depict the status and value of women after Islam that how Islam raises women's position as a mother, sister, daughter and wife and as a human. Islam declared women's rights, her respect and her importance.

Women's Legal Rights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Bond
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
African Women ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Health Rights ◽  
Status Of Women

In the colonial and postcolonial period, African women have advocated for legal reforms that would improve the status of women across the continent. During the colonial period, European common and civil law systems greatly influenced African indigenous legal systems and further entrenched patriarchal aspects of the law. In the years since independence, women’s rights advocates have fought, with varying degrees of success, for women’s equality within the constitution, the family, the political arena, property rights, rights to inheritance, rights to be free from gender-based violence, rights to control their reproductive lives and health, rights to education, and many other aspects of life. Legal developments at the international, national, and local levels reflect the efforts of countless African women’s rights activists to improve the status of women within the region.

Women’s Rights in Islamic Shari’a: Between Interpretation, Culture and Politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Dina Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Human ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
Free Women ◽  
Status Of Women

AbstractThis article analyses existing biases – whether due to misinterpretation, culture or politics – in the application of women’s rights under Islamic Shari’a law. The paper argues that though in its inception, one purpose of Islamic law may have aimed at elevating the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, biases in interpreting such teachings have failed to free women from discrimination and have even added “divinity” to their persistent subjugation. By examining two case studies – Saudi Arabia and Egypt – the article shows that interpretative biases that differ in application from one country to the other further subject women to the selective application of rights. Dictated by norms, culture and tradition rather than a unified Islamic law, the paper shows how culture and politics have contributed to such biases under the pre-text of Islamic dictate. As such, it proposes a re-examination of “personal status” laws across the region in light of international human rights norms.

scholarly journals Women’s Rights In The Light Of Quran

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Abida Parveen
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Husband And Wife

Islam has given honour and rights to women. Before the advent of Islam, women were a suppressed section of the society. Islam evaluated the status of women which anyone can expect in today’s modern society. Islam provides complete code of life, thus giving all social, economic, political and legal rights to women. A man and woman cannot be same physically so their rights can also not be the same due to their duties but they have equal rights in society. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) stressed that when some conflict between husband and wife becomes sharpened and there seems no solution, in this situation if wife no more wants to live with husband then she has the right to get divorce. In case husband do not want to give divorce, women has right to go to court for khula.

scholarly journals Women's Rights in Pakistan

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aqeel Khan ◽  
Muhammad Zubair
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The critically discusses the women’s rights in Pakistan. For this purpose, it explores the Patriarchal nature of the society and the historical background of women’s rights in Pakistan. Before it does so, the paper also throws light on the status of women in Islam and enumerates the important rights the woman holds in Islamic law because of Islam’s great influence in the state of Pakistan.

scholarly journals Projection of Women Education and Empowerment Status in Pakistan: A Direct Observation Analysis of Pakistani Dramas

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-608
Author(s):  
Beenish Ijaz Butt ◽  
Nargis Abbas ◽  
Uzma Ashiq ◽  
Ammara Sarfaraz
Keyword(s):  
Direct Observation ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Mind

The sustainable development goal of gender balanced economic progress and women empowerment as a whole is not possible without the women participation in Science, Technology and Production. To prepare the mind-set of the masses particularly the youth, electronic media plays a pivotal role as a medium of informal education along with entertainment and cultural depiction of a particular society. It shows the status of various population groups of a society at a particular time especially women. The aim of the study was to explore the effects of NPDEW, 2002 on women status in television dramas. Thus, the main research question was to investigate that how far media is projecting its role in educating the individuals about the importance of shrinking the gender gap and developing the networks of skill development to increase the number of women employment and entrepreneurship. This study was qualitative in nature and direct observation analysis was used. Major derived themes from data were women status shown by Pakistani drama channels, portrayal of women status by dramas after promulgation of NPDEW, 2002 and dramas as a mean of information, education and communication. It was concluded that media remained unsuccessful in projecting expected women status in Pakistan as per NPDEW and still unable to educate the masses about the women issues.

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