Religion, women's movements and legal reform in Nigeria. Policy Brief 15.

Abstract

The research outlined in this Brief examined how religion influenced women's campaigns for their rights in Nigeria. The study selected two campaigns for legal reform, one of which ended in failure and one in success, to examine how each engaged with religion and whether this influenced the outcome.

Citation

Policy Brief No. 15, Religions and Development Research Programme, University of Birmingham, UK, 2 pp.

Religion, women’s movements and legal reform in Nigeria. Policy Brief 15.

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2011