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This document presents a community based study on the change of practice female genital mutilation in a Sudanese village. The study was carried out in a village in the Gezira scheme along the Blue Nile, where the development project ‘Sudan Village Concept Project ‘was underway. The survey was presented to the villagers as an activity of the development project. The aim of this study was to investigate the practice of FGM in a rural area in Sudan, and to determine what factors influence this practice among men and women of a young parental generation and a generation of grandparents.

This document presents a Mapping of Gender initiatives in the Arab States Region-Appendices. This Appendix, which is central to the Report, maps out the women/gender work of UN agencies at country level in the last 5 years in the Arab region, putting it in the context of global and regional goals and priorities. As stated in the Introduction, this section is not an attempt to provide an inventory of all women/gender work done by these UN agencies. Rather it reflects a scanning of a sample of documentation combined with responses from the Mapping Survey

This document presents an article on Changing gendered norms about women and girls at the level of household and community: a review of the evidence. The Background paper prepared for the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. This review was conducted to support the development of the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network’s report to the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. This review sought to identify the research evidence on programmatic interventions1 at the level of household and community that have been effective in changing gendered norms. The review concentrated on learnings from sectoral and intersectoral interventions that illustrate a positive impact on changing gender norms through action to increase the status of women. Evidence was sought about successful interventions that have influenced one or more, of the social determinants of women’s health such as raising women’s economic independence or social status, enhancing their citizenship and providing the conditions for empowerment. This evidence synthesis takes account of the context-dependency of most interventions, while providing a back-drop on which policy decisions can be made

This document presents an article on Child Bride in Jordan Puts Daughters on same Path. This article gives testimonies of women’s subject their daughters to drudgery, deny them education and threaten them with early marriage and other human rights abuses. One family's story suggests, are women who've gone through just that themselves. Early marriage is considered a human rights violation, according to UNICEF. The organization notes that child marriage is often linked to abuse and results in the denial of education. It is also associated with heightened risks of maternal and infant mortality.

This document presents A Case Study of –” Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Middle East”- Complicities of Western Feminism. This project is a critical examination of Mona Eltahawy's article "Why Do They Hate us The real war on women is in the Middle East "from a postcolonial Feminist perspective. The project will discuss women's freedom and rights with Focus on Egypt, which will be exemplified by cultural practice: Female genital mutilation. We want through Chandra Mohanty's concept: Intersectionality and Edward Said's reartication of orientalism illuminate. The necessity for a divergent understanding of different cultures, as well Problematize Western understandings of concepts such as 'freedom' and 'right.