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After the fall of the Taliban, the new Afghan constitution of 2004 marks a fundamental beginning for the status of women - at least from a normative perspective. Art. 22 of the Afghan constitution contains: "The citizens of Afghanistan, man and woman, have equal rights and duties before the law." According to Art. 7 of the constitution the state shall observe i. a. the international treaties to which Afghanistan has joined. This also covers the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. At the same time, Art. 3 of the constitution provides that no law should contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy religion of Islam in Afghanistan. But how do these different sources of law interact in conflicting legal fields? There are no exiting provisions of the constitution explicitly offering an answer to this problem. This work focuses on the solution of this question regarding the status of women, especially in the law of divorce.

Equality before the law. --- Constitutional law (Islamic law) --- Equal rights amendments.

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This monograph explores some of the conceptual questions which underpin the legal disputes which arise in relation to equality and discrimination. Among these are questions about the meaning of 'equality' as a legal concept and its relationship to the principle of non-discrimination; symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches to equality/non-discrimination; the role of comparators in discrimination/equality analysis; the selection of protected characteristics and the proper sphere of statutory and constitutional protections, and the scope for and regulation of potential conflicts between protected grounds. The author engages with domestic, EU and ECtHR case law as well as with wider international approaches

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After the fall of the Taliban, the new Afghan constitution of 2004 marks a fundamental beginning for the status of women - at least from a normative perspective. Art. 22 of the Afghan constitution contains: "The citizens of Afghanistan, man and woman, have equal rights and duties before the law." According to Art. 7 of the constitution the state shall observe i. a. the international treaties to which Afghanistan has joined. This also covers the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. At the same time, Art. 3 of the constitution provides that no law should contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy religion of Islam in Afghanistan. But how do these different sources of law interact in conflicting legal fields? There are no exiting provisions of the constitution explicitly offering an answer to this problem. This work focuses on the solution of this question regarding the status of women, especially in the law of divorce. Nach dem Sturz der Taliban markiert die neue afghanische Verfassung aus dem Jahre 2004 einen fundamentalen Neuanfang für die Stellung der Frau - zumindest aus normativer Sichtweise. Art. 22 der afghanischen Verfassung lautet: "Die Bürger Afghanistans, sowohl Frauen als auch Männer, haben vor dem Gesetz gleiche Rechte und Pflichten". Gemäss Art. 7 der Verfassung hat der Staat u.a. die Allgemeine Menschenrechtserklärung und die von Afghanistan ratifizierten Verträge zu achten. Dazu zählt auch das Übereinkommen zur Beseitigung jeder Form der Diskriminierung der Frau. Hingegen legt Art. 3 der Verfassung fest, dass kein Gesetz dem Glauben und den Bestimmungen der heiligen Religion des Islam widersprechen darf. Doch in welchem Verhältnis stehen diese Rechtsquellen im Falle einer Normenkollision? Explizite Verfassungsbestimmungen hierzu existieren nicht. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung der vorliegenden Arbeit steht die Klärung dieses Verhältnisses betreffend die Stellung der Frau, im Speziellen im Scheidungsrecht.

Equal rights amendments --- Sex discrimination against women --- Equality before the law --- Women's rights --- Women (Islamic law) --- Constitutional law (Islamic law) --- International law (Islamic law) --- Law and legislation --- Afghanistan.

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In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation, demonstrating how governments inhibit the application of their own laws, and how it falls to social movements to create, promote, and enforce these laws. Focusing on British Columbia - the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex - Clément documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. The province was at the forefront of the women's movement, which produced the country's first rape crisis centres, first feminist newspaper, and first battered women's shelters. And yet nowhere else in the country was human rights law more contested. For an entire generation, the province's two dominant political parties fought to impose their respective vision of the human rights state. This history of human rights law, based on previously undisclosed records of British Columbia's human rights commission, begins with the province's first equal pay legislation in 1953 and ends with the collapse of the country's most progressive human rights legal regime in 1984. This book is not only a testament to the revolutionary impact of human rights on Canadian law but also a reminder that it takes more than laws to effect transformative social change.

Sex discrimination against women --- Equality before the law --- Women --- Human rights --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Equal rights --- Civil rights --- Justice --- Equal rights amendments --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Law and legislation --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- British Columbia.

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Public institutions play a critical role in promoting gender-sensitive policies and gender equality more broadly, in the MENA region and around the world. Advancing gender balance in public institutions and public life more generally, including the judiciary, parliaments, and the political executive constitutes a major step towards gender-responsive policies and non-discrimination and serves as a key milestone in promoting gender equality. This report provides a comparative overview of the policies affecting women’s participation in public life across the MENA region. It examines the existing barriers to women’s access to public decision-making positions, and provides a cross-country assessment of current instruments and institutions to advance women’s empowerment in the MENA region. The report undertakes an analysis of the existing legal barriers for gender equality in public life, including with regard to political and economic rights, freedom of movement, labour law, family law, access to justice and gender-based violence and provides focused policy-recommendations to close legal and institutional gaps. The report has been prepared by the OECD, in partnership with Centre for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR) and with the support of the Arab Administrative Development Organisation (ARADO) and covers the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Governance --- Law, Politics & Government --- Human Rights --- Sex discrimination against women --- Equality before the law --- Women --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Equal rights --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Civil rights --- Justice --- Equal rights amendments --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- 813 Methodologie --- 822.1 Verenigde Naties --- 822.4 Internationale financiële instellingen --- 822.5 Europese Unie --- 825 Ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- 843 Middenveld --- 862 Vredesopvoeding --- 884 Europa --- 884.2 Noord-Europa --- 884.4 West-Europa --- Africa, North. --- Middle East. --- Asia, Western --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Middle East --- Mideast --- Near East --- South West --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Asia --- Africa, North --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- Women Legal status, laws, etc. --- North Africa.