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Gender and Citizenship in the Arab World

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These extracts are from an Al-Raida quarterly journal issue focusing on citizenship and gender in the Arab world. The brief editorial offers a broad overview of the subject. The longer extracted chapter, "Gender and Citizenship in the Arab World," introduces the concepts of dependent and independent citizenship rights in the context of the complex web of loyalties often present in the Arab world.

A Practical Guide to Constitution Building: Building a Culture of Human Rights.

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This paper appears as chapter 3 of International IDEA’s publication A Practical Guide to Constitution Building. This paper focuses on the development of a human rights culture, defined as a culture in which society values human rights to the extent that most, if not all, official decisions aim to maximize these rights. The paper discusses how this culture is shaped by the constitution-building stage, by type of process used to frame the constitution, and the nature or type of the constitution. Next, the paper addresses building a human rights culture in a conflict affected state.