Reports
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Women's Rights in Transitions to Democracy : Achieving Rights, Resisting Backlash; pre-meeting and strategy sessions report
Published date
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 00:00
Through this project IDRC provided AWID with a grant of $125,022 to facilitate reflection and strategizing among women's rights activists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and forge stronger ties of solidarity between them and the inter
This article analyses how government by a party rooted in moderate Islamism may affect Turkey’s peculiar secular democracy, development, and external relations, and how Muslims in the world relate to modernization and democracy.
This project shows that both the emergence of an Islamist-rooted yet pro-liberal democracy and pro-West party in Turkey, and its illiberal tendencies in areas related to secularism, social freedoms, and freedom of thought, are tied to a prior inco