1 January 2016
Ejecting Women from Formal Politics in the ‘old-new’ Egypt 2011-2012
Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women’s political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still.
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1 January 2016
Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women’s political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still.
1 January 2016
Published by: Syracuse University Press
Unlike past and future uprising's during this protest, it was the women who shouted the slogans and the men who tagged along.
31 December 2015
Published by: IDS
This report focuses on Egypt’s social protection system, including social safety nets, and highlights the significant institutional gaps as well as operational challenges in protecting the poor in Egypt.
1 December 2015
Published by: IDS
It is now widely accepted that effective strategies to end sexual and gender-based violence must engage with men and boys. In practice, however, the relationship between traditional women’s rights movements and organisations working on engaging men and boys is an uneasy one.
17 November 2015
Published by: IDS
Sexual and gender-based violence is persistent and devastating, rooted deeply in the lives of men, women, boys and girls globally. Gendered violence does not exist in isolation, and is intertwined with other forms of power, privilege and social exclusion.
1 November 2015
Published by: Wiley
The article suggests that a cross-fertilization of prefigurative and contentious politics offers a framework for understanding temporally - and spatially-bound forms of collective political agency.
The Participatory Monitoring and Accountability (PMA) programme marks a new phase of the Participate initiative. It aims to foster and support PMA learning processes that enable citizen participation for accountability to be embedded in development policy and practice.
28 October 2015
Published by: IDS
In many developing countries, sexual rights are commonly depicted as trivial concerns pertaining to wealthy citizens of a ‘developed’ Western world. The ‘developing’ world is often thought to have more pressing problems to deal with, such as poverty, violence and corruption.
21 May 2015
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The study of vernacular allows for an examination of multiple forms of citizen voice, agency and embedded relations that contribute to understandings of securities and insecurities in highly distinct ways.
To support Cairo University in establishing and offering a full one-year accredited Professional Diploma or MA in Gender Studies.