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  2. 1. Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups

    Author : Abdel Baten Miaji; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NGOs; Islamology; Women in Bangladesh; nongovernment institutions; Gender; Rural Bangladesh; Qur an; Legal status of women; Islamists; Bangladeshi girls; Bangladesh; Village women; Islam; Women; Hadith; History of Religion;

    Abstract : Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. In spite of political turmoil, frequent natural disasters and widespread corruption it has, in less than four decades after its birth as an independent state, gained visible success in human development - especially the education of women and girls, family planning and health, and microcredit to the poor. READ MORE

  4. 2. Rape against Women in Tanzania : Studies of Social Reactions and Barriers to Disclosure

    Author : c Muganyizi; Pia Axemo; Gunilla Lindmark; Lennarth Nyström; Maria Emmelin; Siriel Massawe; Charlotte Watts; Ann Öhman; Viveca Odlind; Berit Schei; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Rape; women; victim; supporter; social reaction; social network; community; Tanzania; Reproductive health; Reproduktiv hälsa; Obstetrik och gynekologi; Obstetrics and Gynaecology;

    Abstract : This thesis assessed responses toward rape against women as experienced by the victims and victim supporters in the context of the interaction between victims, supporters, and formal agencies in Tanzania. The overall research design was based on triangulation with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. READ MORE

  5. 3. Women in the Damascus Document

    Author : Cecilia Wassén; Eileen Schuller; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Damascus Document; Women: legal status; history; Second Temple Judaism; Qumran; Dead Sea Scrolls; Old Testament exegesis; Gamla testamentets exegetik; Gamla testamentets exegetik; Old Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : Women in the Damascus Document offers a fresh look at the nature of the community reflected in the Damascus Document, one of the core documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By presenting a close and comprehensive study of the references to women and in-depth analyses of biblically based laws in the document, this work attempts to recontruct the role of women and attitudes toward women within the community. READ MORE

  6. 4. The voice of the people? : Supplications submitted to the Swedish Diet in the Age of Liberty, 1719–1772

    Author : Martin Almbjär; Svante Norrhem; Peter Lindström; Nils Erik Villstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Age of Liberty; audit; Diet of Estates; early modern state formation; eighteenth century; institutions; national debt; parliamentary committees; petitions; political participation; public office; supplications; taxes; trade privileges; Supreme Court; welfare; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation is devoted to the study of who used the formal channels of interaction in the early modern era and why. It examines the full range of the political conversation in early modern Sweden, as seen in the supplications to the Diet in the Age of Liberty (1719–1772), and more specifically the supplications submitted to the parliamentary committee tasked with handling them, the Screening Deputation. READ MORE

  7. 5. Visibility at risk for women as rights-holders : a study with regard to a refugee camp context

    Author : Jenny Zetterqvist; Joakim Nergelius; Kerstin Nordlöf; Catharina Calleman; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women; rights-holder; human rights; CEDAW; gender-based violence; domestic violence; protracted refugee camp situations; local customary law tradition; East Africa; plural legal context;

    Abstract : By taking the recognition of persons as rights-holders in the framework of international human rights into account, this study directs its attention to women in protracted refugee situations, restricted to stay in camps also when their human rights are at risk due to various forms of violence. The question in focus is the following: To what extent may there be a risk that women in a refugee camp context, distinguished by a protracted refugee situation, do not become visible as rights-holders and entrusted to act with regard to international human rights and the problem of violence against women, especially domestic violence?The research process has taken the form of a continuous dialogue with the material for the study, a dialogue directing attention to material from an established international human rights system on one hand and material dealing with a local refugee camp context on the other. READ MORE