Women’s Rights and the Women’s Movement in Sudan (1952-2014): Focus and Strategies for Adopting Legal Feminist Action

Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen (2017)

Balghis Badri and Aili Marie Tripp: Women's activism in Africa. Zed books

Liv Tønnessen, who is a Steering Committee Member at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, is one of the contributors to this volume. Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilizing around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In countries such […]

Enemies of the State: Curbing Women Activists Advocating Rape Reform in Sudan

Liv Tønnessen (2017)

Journal of International Women's studies vol. 18 no. 2

Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict. After years of mobilization, Sudan enacted a rape reform in 2015. While on the surface a success story, extensive interviews conducted in Khartoum suggest that […]

New religious/secular configurations: the self-proclaim “pro-life” NGOs and the disputes on sexual politics in Argentina

Defago, María Angélica Peñas, and José Manuel Morán Faúndes (2016)

Religião & Sociedade 35.2 (2015): 340-362.

Although the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and some evangelical churches continue to be the central opposition to sexual and reproductive rights (SRR), in recent decades, various sectors from the civil society have also begun to get politically active with the purpose of resisting the advance of the SRR agenda. Several “pro-life” NGOs are becoming […]

The Strategies of the Self-Proclaimed Pro-Life Groups in Argentina. The Impact of New Religious Actors on Sexual Politics

Faúndes, José Manuel Morán, and María Angélica Peñas Defago (2016)

Latin American Perspectives 43.3 (2016): 144-162.

Over the past few decades political processes recognizing and broadening sexual and reproductive rights have produced a reaction from conservative sectors seeking to block those gains. Although the Catholic Church hierarchy and some Evangelical churches have led the opposition to these rights, various sectors of civil society have begun to foment resistance to pluralist sexual […]

“No Going Back”. A case study of sexual and gender minorities in India and their legal mobilisation

Kolmannskog, Vikram (2016)

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 3.8

This paper explores the legal mobilisation in India against section 377, the anti-sodomy legislation originally introduced by the British. The first part explores the legal mobilisation as experienced by sexual and gender minority activists themselves. In the second part, some themes that have emerged as important are discussed in light of existing research and literature […]

Perils and Possibilities: Reflections on the Use of Scientific Evidence in Abortion Court Cases and Why the Public Health Community Should Care

Emily Maistrellis, Victoria Chia and Alicia El Yamin (2016)

Harvard FXB Center Working Paper

As state legislatures across the United States usher in health-justified abortion restrictions, courts are increasingly called upon to analyze the effects of these laws on women’s rights, and to evaluate the role that empirical evidence should play in this analysis. Examples from a systematic review of 70 state and federal cases challenging the constitutionality of […]