Reforming Discriminatory Laws to Empower Women in Togo

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Reforming Discriminatory Laws to Empower Women in Togo

dc.contributor.author	Affoum, Nelsy
dc.contributor.author	Dry, Marie
dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-17T20:09:52Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-17T20:09:52Z
dc.date.issued	2025-04-17
dc.description.abstract	This brief examines two reforms, enacted between 2012 and 2014, that lifted previous restrictions to women’s rights in Togo. Specifically, these limitations prevented women from choosing where to live, from getting a job without their husband’s permission, and from being named head of household in the same manner as men. The reforms to the persons and family code were driven by women’s civil society organizations engaging a wide variety of stakeholders, including the government and the international community. Together, these actors identified strategic agencies and stakeholders sympathetic to the overarching goal of gender equality in order to make greater gender equality a reality. This brief explores this process, while also indicating the remaining barriers to women’s full equality in Togo.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099527109292258758
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/43095
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43095
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Global Indicators Briefs; No. 12
dc.rights	CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subject	GENDER EQUALITY
dc.subject	WOMEN'S RIGHTS
dc.subject	REFORMS
dc.subject	PERSONS AND FAMILY CODE
dc.subject	CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
dc.title	Reforming Discriminatory Laws to Empower Women in Togo	en
dc.type	Brief
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2025-04-17
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-20T02:18:05.372591Z
okr.doctype	Brief
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099527109292258758
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	33908700
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	33908700
okr.identifier.report	176480
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okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099527109292258758/pdf/IDU0294c15ca02d3a04a8f08846021668035ffc8.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.country	Togo
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Law
okr.topic	Law and Development::Human Rights
okr.topic	Law and Development::Law and Gender
okr.unit	Women
okr.unit	Business & the Law-WB (DECWL)