Essays about: "gender discrimination in islam"

Found 5 essays containing the words gender discrimination in islam.

  1. 1. An alternative agenda for gender just peace? : social justice and women’s peace advocacy amid the consolidation of Bangsamoro autonomy in the Southern Philippines

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Alexandra Håkansson Schmidt; [2020]
    Keywords : Social Justice; Peacebuilding; Bangsamoro; Philippines; Islam; Feminism; Counter-hegemony; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Although the Bangsamoro peace-process in the Southern Philippines has been valued for its gender commitments and potential to build just and sustainable peace, discrimination of the Bangsamoro peoples and other minorities prevail. This thesis uncovers how women peace advocates understand social justice and its remedies in the context of the Bangsamoro peace-process, and which opportunities they have to advance a transformative agenda for justice in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). READ MORE

  3. 2. Fearing the Queer and the War on “Indecency” : Portrayals of LGBT Individuals, and the Struggle for Religious Decorum in Aceh, Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Jeanna Nilsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Acehnese discourse; LGBT; qanun jinayat; Shafi’i Islam; gender; liwath; musahaqah; kodrat; Islam; Aceh; Indonesia; Asian studies; South-East Asia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In 2014, the sharia-ruled Aceh province of Indonesia legislated bylaw qanun jinayat no.6/2014, which criminalised same-sex acts, and imposed a caning punishment consisting of a hundred lashes if a person was found guilty. READ MORE

  4. 3. An ethnographic study of domestic violence and divorce in Uzbekistan: what is more important, to be free or to be alive?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Kerstin Martinez; [2017]
    Keywords : divorce; domestic violence; dominance theory; equality; ethnography; gender equality; hybrid society; legal culture; legal feminist theory; living law; mahalla; Uzbekistan; violence against women; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper has been to provide a socio-legal analysis of domestic violence and divorce in secular Uzbekistan. The legislation express that men and women are equal to the law, that any kind of discrimination is forbidden and judicial divorce is possible. READ MORE

  5. 4. GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE GLOBAL LABOR MARKET: A CASE STUDY ON BANGLADESHI FEMALE IMMIGRANTS IN LONDON

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Shafiqul Islam; [2012]
    Keywords : Gender Inequality; Labor Market; Globalization; Feminization of Employment; Neoliberal Economy; United Kingdom; Bangladesh; Migration; Bangladeshi Female Immigrant; Sex Segregation of Labor; Patriarchy; Masculinity; Public and Private Sphere.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis aims to explore and understand gender inequality that exists in the global labour market in general and for the Bangladeshi female immigrants in particular. It emphasises feminization of employment in relation to state-market-family relations. READ MORE

  6. 5. Can Freedom Entitle Oppression?- A Feministic Analysis of the Veil as a Phenomenon in Secular Societies

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kristina Olsson; [2007]
    Keywords : Feminism; Gender Discrimination; Islam; Secularity; Veil; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Abstract In Europe, equality between men and women is constitutionally protected and the member states of the European Union are obliged to counteract gender discrimination within their states both according to the Treaty of Rome and the European Convention on Human Rights. Over the last years there have been several debates in Europe about whether the Islamic veil is consistent with secularity and whether banning the veil within some institutions would be to violate the freedom of religion or not. READ MORE