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Coptic Heritage Awakening

Coptic Heritage Awakening is about the living heritage of the Copts of Egypt as experienced in daily life and in important seasons of...

Biometric Digital-ID in Africa: Progress and Challenges to Date – Ten Country Case Studies

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The Biometric Digital-ID in Africa report provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of digital-ID across Africa. It...

Ideologically Motivated Sexual Grooming

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Across diverse societies, coercion often hides behind cultural norms, religious expectations, legal systems, and gendered power structures. This book exposes a disturbing but overlooked form of abuse: ideologically motivated sexual grooming – the manipulation of women and girls from religious minorities for both sexual exploitation and coerced religious conversion.

Executive Summary: Rapid Scoping Review: Anti-Rollback Actors and Strategies

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This report presents the findings of a rapid scoping review of queer and feminist organisations and social movements countering roll back in 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Türkiye)

Rapid Scoping Review: Anti-Rollback Actors and Strategies

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This report presents the findings of a rapid scoping review of queer and feminist organisations and social movements countering roll back in 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Türkiye)

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: Egypt

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Egypt has a rich history of feminist activism, but progress on LGBTQI+ rights and women’s rights ‘remains elusive, characterized by fits and starts along a non-linear trajectory’. Although Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, regularly pays lip service to women’s rights, his government’s record is very poor.

Key Considerations: Female Genital Mutilation Among Sudanese Displaced Populations in Egypt

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice involving the partial or total removal of the external female...

Zakat, Non-state Welfare Provision and Redistribution in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Published by: Studies in Comparative International Development

Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic drew attention to state social protection and its limitations. Less attention has been paid to...