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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 110–111.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Heidi Morrison Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 110 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
BRIEF COMMENTARY
Egyptian Women’s Views on Constitutional Amendments...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 6–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
... activities led to a reform of the Moroccan personal status code (the Mudawwana ) in 2003. The discourse of the second generation of Tunisian women, which emerged, unlike that of women in other Arab Muslim countries, in a post-independence context wherein they benefited from an oft-amended PSC that awarded...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 241–243.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., and the authors discuss in detail the parties’ debates on settled or disputed issues. In chapter 8 Oya Yegen concentrates on the amendment-making process, which branches into flexible or rigid amendment making in constitutions. The party members on the commission reflect the arguments of their party ideology...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 148–150.
Published: 01 July 2005
... to amendments, and their replacements were being
drafted at the time of the booklet’s preparation. For example, a new Labor
Law (no. 4857) was enacted on May 22, 2003, and entered into force on June
10 of the same year, and a completely new Penal Code (no. 5230) was adopted
on September 26, 2004...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 237–243.
Published: 01 July 2019
.../2017, currently in the process of amendment, is approved by the government. The mission completed its report in September 2011. The resulting document contained an investigative report by the National Security Authority and another by the General Intelligence Service, which were used later as evidence...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
... for a woman to be granted a divorce. In 1981, Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) decree no. 125 amended the personal status law, declaring acts of “sodomy” by a married man to be adultery. 2 The often-cited RCC decree no. 234 that turned prostitution into a capital crime was issued on October 30, 2001...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that ECWR moved toward top-down projects, such as conducting research and promoting draft legal amendments to criminalize sexual harassment in Egypt (ECWR 2009 ; FIDH et al. 2014 , 74). 4 Within Egypt’s militarized and neoliberal environment, ECWR and other NGOs sought to combat sexual harassment...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 301–310.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to actual legal change, with the amendment, in August 2020, of Law No. 113 of 1950 to ban the disclosure of victims’ identities and personal information in sexual violence cases. The law is still ineffective; it was approved by parliament and passed on to the cabinet but was not enacted. However...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
... that represented the dermatological symptoms of venereal diseases for educational exhibits. The amendment to the contagious diseases regulation in 1915 was the first attempt to standardize syphilis treatment ( Frengi İlletine Karşı Mücadele 1915 ). The regulation defined “all Ottoman territory as a syphilis...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılması Hakkında Kanun (Law on Disabled People and on Making Amendments in Some Laws and Decree Laws). Resmi Gazete (Official Gazette), no. 25868 , July 7 , 2005 . www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2005/07/20050707-2.htm . Law No. 6354 . Sağlık Bakanlığı ve bağlı...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 292–313.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 2017 , 320–24). Recent amendments to family laws in the three countries have earned them a special reputation for advancing gender equality and respecting children’s rights. This article builds on my studies of classical Islamic jurisprudence on zina (fornication) and the prohibition on establishing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2018
... get together, we can empower each other. . . . Every week we hear about LGBT individuals being beaten or killed.” Although being LGBT is not illegal in Turkey, the organization proposes an amendment to the equality clause in the Constitution that explicitly recognizes “sexual orientation and gender...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 98–112.
Published: 01 November 2011
...”
(Republic of Lebanon 1943), thus expanding the scope of the clause and
making it more ambiguous.7 The draft document contained a comment
that the amendment was meant to include both gays and lesbians, us-
ing the terms liwat and souhaq (both terms used derogatorily to denote
male-male...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of the first legal regulations regarding transsexual identity by attaching a new article to the Twenty-Ninth Clause of the Civil Code of 1926. The new article states, “In cases where there has been a change of sex after birth documented by a report from a committee of medical experts, the necessary amendments...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 384–389.
Published: 01 November 2018
... integrates for the first time abortion access and research as part of its objectives. However, it is unclear whether this integration will materialize programmatically and operationally into dignified abortion services and what required legal amendments will be endorsed. Community-based organizations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 November 2019
... containing sexual content to avoid “an 18+ rating, which would have allowed the ministry to demand a full refund of its financial support” (Kuyas 2017 ). State censorship has increased after the passing in January 2019 of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Evaluation, Classification, and Promotion...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 108–115.
Published: 01 November 2005
... to
substantively amend the divorce system and grant women an equal right
to divorce.
RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT
Th e Egyptian government should adopt legislative, judicial, and
administrative reforms to guarantee equal access to divorce for Egyptian
women...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to their children or spouses if they marry a non-Syrian. The legislation enacting these regulations was issued in 1976; since then there have been no amendments. In this context, the state defines and mobilizes the notion of masculinist protection, which becomes a definer of who deserves to belong to the nation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 249–257.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that King Mohammed VI amended the Moroccan constitution to include Tamazight as a national language (see Ennaji 2014 ). References Africanews . 2020 . “ Willis from Tunis: Satire Sheds Light on the Contradictions of Tunisia’s Revolution .” December 15 . https://www.africanews.com/2020/12/15...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 78–101.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and National Parks Protection Authority, the Postal Authority,
the Government Companies Authority, the Antiquities Authority, the
Israel Broadcasting Authority, and the Airport Authority.10 Over the past
couple of decades, several amendments were passed to foster change in
Arab...
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