The Compendium of International and National Legal Framework on Child Marriage provides a survey of the key international, regional and national legal instruments as they relate to the right to marry with the full and free consent of the intending spouses and to the obligation for government to take legislative measures to abolish child marriage.
This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM in Nigeria in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.
This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Senegal. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM/C in Senegal in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.
This legal literacy community training manual is an illustrated description of the national legal framework on FGM/C and of a selection of existing case law in Guinea in order to improve legal literacy within communities speaking different languages and/or for illiterate members.
This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Guinea. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM/C in Guinea in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.
This legal community training manual is an illustrated description of the anti-Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Law and existing case law in Guinea-Bissau. The illustrations describe each article of the anti-FGM/C law in order to improve legal literacy in respect to FGM/C within communities speaking different languages and/or for illiterate members.
This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Guinea Bissau. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM/C in Guinea Bissau in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.
Researcher have shown that FGM/C deprives women of sexual satisfaction, sexual health and psychophysical wellbeing. The Compendium was prepared to contribute to this urgent and important development debate with the understanding that the knowledge of the law is an important empowerment tool to end FGM.
An article explores how Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) can help lift disenfranchised women from oppressive and repressive circumstances. By stimulating new income generation and creating educational opportunities in rural areas, IPRs have the potential to make a tangible difference for women.