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<a href="https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/feminist-advocacy-family-law-and-violence-against-women-international-perspectives" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:blue">https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/feminist-advocacy-family-law-and-violence-against-women-international-perspectives</span></a></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FEMINIST ADVOCACY, FAMILY LAW & VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><img 0?="" width="270" height="391" id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="Cover of Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence Against Women: International Perspectives" style="width: 2.8125in; height: 4.0729in; user-select: none;" src="service.svc/s/GetFileAttachment?id=AAMkADA2ODU2ZDBkLWYzNWItNGFhOC04ZmVmLWE0OTJiMmYzZWM5OABGAAAAAABGBw2b0skdSLjxkXc4kboFBwBNFUSRsW3TRIo6RTo9vvdQAAAAAAEPAABNFUSRsW3TRIo6RTo9vvdQAAME4vkmAAABEgAQAPfL%2FMtdyHFMrhP14o6EGZA%3D&X-OWA-CANARY=0LjxBv8WAUqeW1YptEZTvFB_NJyuP9cIoWkOb5D8qvEYHZp49IKgixEG3zOwaEc41b4bzTbOQ5g."></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Editor(s): Mahnaz Afkhami, Yakın Ertürk, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Publisher(s): Routledge, IDRC – 268 Pages </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights. It can affect almost every aspect of a woman's life, including the right to choose a partner,
inherit property, hold a job, and obtain child custody. Often referred to as family law, these laws have contributed to discrimination, and to the justification of gender-based violence globally. This book demonstrates how women across the world are contributing
to legal reform, helping to shape non-discriminatory policies and to counter current legal and social justifications for gender-based violence.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The book takes case studies from Brazil, India, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, and Turkey, using them to demonstrate in each case the varied history of family law, and
the wide variety of issues impacting women’s equality in legislation. Interviews with prominent women's rights activists in three additional countries are also included, giving personal accounts of the successes and failures of past reform efforts. Overall,
the book provides a complex global picture of current trends and strategies in the fight for a more egalitarian society.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">These findings come at a critical moment for change. Across the globe, family law issues are contentious. We are simultaneously witnessing an increased demand for women’s equality and
the resurgence of fundamentalist forces that impede reform, invoking rules rooted in tradition, culture, and interpretations of religious texts. The outcome of these disputes has enormous ramifications for women’s roles in the family and society. This book
tackles these complexities head on, and will interest activists, practitioners, students, and scholars working on women's rights and gender-based violence.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The Editors</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Mahnaz Afkhami is Founder and President of Women’s Learning Partnership, former Minister for Women’s Affairs in Iran, and editor of <i>Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the
Muslim World</i>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Yakın Ertürk is former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, former Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), and author of <i>Violence
without Borders: Paradigm, Policy and Praxis Concerning Violence Against Women</i>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Ann Elizabeth Mayer is Associate Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and author of <i>Islam and Human
Rights: Tradition and Politics</i>.</span></p>
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