Gender and Justice in Afghanistan

The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choi...

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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/973901583899908102/Gender-and-Justice-in-Afghanistan
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spelling okr-10986-334522021-05-25T09:33:23Z Gender and Justice in Afghanistan World Bank VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN GENDER AND JUSTICE GENDER AND LAW ACCESS TO JUSTICE The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choices and rationale for those choices; c) the challenges women face when trying to access justice institutions; and d) women's satisfaction with the judicial process they experience in north (Kabul), west (Herat), central highlands (Bamyan), and east (Nangarhar, Logar). The study is underpinned by a conceptual framework that privileges understanding the dynamics of the demand for justice first, with a secondary focus on the supply side of justice. It has focused primarily on collecting data and information directly from actual or potential users of justice institutions, with efforts to maintain a gender balance among respondents. The knowledge and perspectives of justice service providers or other supply-side actors (like donors or program designers) have been used primarily to complement or be compared with data from the demand side. 2020-03-23T17:30:46Z 2020-03-23T17:30:46Z 2016 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/973901583899908102/Gender-and-Justice-in-Afghanistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33452 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Law and Justice Study South Asia Afghanistan
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topic VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
GENDER AND JUSTICE
GENDER AND LAW
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
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GENDER AND JUSTICE
GENDER AND LAW
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
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Gender and Justice in Afghanistan
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description The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choices and rationale for those choices; c) the challenges women face when trying to access justice institutions; and d) women's satisfaction with the judicial process they experience in north (Kabul), west (Herat), central highlands (Bamyan), and east (Nangarhar, Logar). The study is underpinned by a conceptual framework that privileges understanding the dynamics of the demand for justice first, with a secondary focus on the supply side of justice. It has focused primarily on collecting data and information directly from actual or potential users of justice institutions, with efforts to maintain a gender balance among respondents. The knowledge and perspectives of justice service providers or other supply-side actors (like donors or program designers) have been used primarily to complement or be compared with data from the demand side.
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title Gender and Justice in Afghanistan
title_short Gender and Justice in Afghanistan
title_full Gender and Justice in Afghanistan
title_fullStr Gender and Justice in Afghanistan
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publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
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