Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world - 3rd edition

Montserrat Boix — 2009-01-15T13:07:40Z

This third and completely revised version of the "Knowing Our Rights" handbook is an essential resource for those taking a critical and questioning approach to rights, laws, and constructions of womanhood in Muslim countries and communities and beyond. "Knowing Our Rights" forms part of the international synthesis of the Women & Law in the Muslim world Programme and is based on some 10 years of field experience, research and analysis by multi-disciplinary teams of networkers in over 20 countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Montserrat Boix — 2008-12-15T20:45:26Z

Montserrat Boix — 2008-04-06T18:24:24Z

Il prezzo del velo. La guerra dell'Islam contro le donne.

Montserrat Boix — 2008-02-24T10:07:05Z

Intercultural Dialogue and Conflict Transformation: a Feminist Perspective

Montserrat Boix — 2008-01-02T08:53:27Z

The conception of intercultural dialogue is in a certain sense a contribution to conflict transformation, as many conflicts have a cultural dimension or are touching cultural problems. Therefore I will first outline in this paper what I understand by intercultural dialogue and present my idea of it. Secondly I will show in which way intercultural dialogue can contribute to conflict transformation and thirdly 1 will say what could be a feminist perspective in approaching this question.

Les femmes face aux transformations socio-économiques.

Malika Abdelaziz — 2007-11-28T19:07:40Z

Las lesbianas palestinas alzan la voz para que la sociedad reconozca sus derechos

Montserrat Boix — 2007-10-11T07:07:40Z

The First Victims are Women.

Malika Abdelaziz — 2007-09-25T16:25:05Z

The new law obliged the population to enroll in a health fund. As a result, primary health care are more accessible. The new law had a negative side. It permitted the Health Funds to offer a higher level of services to those who could pay. Earlier, some 190,000 citizens-mostly Arabs- had no medical coverage at all. Arab women are on the bottom rung when it comes to health. 42% are overweight. Heart disease was and is higher among Arabs, and fewer recover from it. In these illnesses, diet plays an important role. As a result of changes in the Arab way of life, the rate of diabetes among Arab women is double that among Jewish. Women's lack of independence and their inferior social status cause psychological pressures that hasten the eruption of illness. The basket of subsidized medicines does not include birth control devices. Unwanted pregnancies keep women from gaining autonomy over their lives and bodies. They are less able to exercise their right to plan the timing of pregnancies.