Additional Documents and Resources

In addition to our major publications on the subject, these materials on culturally sensitive programming approaches are also available.

Documents

Project Document of Institutionalizing the Culture Lens in UNFPA Programming. December 2003.

Power Point Presentation

Mainstreaming the Culture ‘Lens' in UNFPA work.

Promoting Reproductive Rights through Culturally Sensitive Approaches

For further reading:

The following papers presented at the meeting on culture, Accra, Ghana, April, 2004, are available for viewing at http://people.law.emory.edu/~abduh46/phfiles.htm.

“The Legal Protection of Human Rights in Africa: How to Do More With Less” by Prof. Abdullahi An-Na'im, in Human Rights – Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

“Human Rights” by Abdullahi An-Na'im, in The Blackwell Companion to Sociology, 2001.

“State Responsibility Under International Human Rights Law to Change Religion and Customary Laws” by Abdullahi An-Na'im in Human Rights of Women – National and International Perspectives edited by Rebecca J Cook, 1994.

“Cultural Transformation and Normative Consensus on the Best Interests of the Child ” by Abdullahi An-Na'im , International Journal of Law and the Family 8, (1994), 62-81.