This report is a chapter in Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance,published by Freedom House. It provides a history of the women's rights movement in Jordan and

Complementing the World Development Report 212: Gender Equality and Development (WDR 212),this report,Opening Doors: Gender Equality in the Middle East and North Africa,focuses on the challenges and

This report aims to describe the current situation of women in Jordan,where they are still highly underrepresented in both local and central government and where the issue of violence against women is

The report sheds light on one of the most important issues facing the Emirati society,namely integrating the youth and enabling them to actively contribute to the transfer and localization of

This compilation of papers,written by the regional experts of the 212 Rabat Conference on Advancing Women's Political Participation in Transitions,examines the status of women in decision-making

This study examines the implementation of international human rights laws and legislation in an attempt to answer the main research question of why people with disabilities in Jordan find it difficult

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 21 report. Using a social exclusion concept framework,this paper

This report,published by UNHCR,focuses on gender equality in nationality laws,particularly equality between men and women in conferring nationality to their children. The report explains how gender