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Women had equal access to HIV treatment and counselling, as well as follow-up treatment. In accordance with the government's interpretation of Qur'anic precepts, Muslim women have rights similar to those of Muslim men in areas such as divorce and child custody. Islamic law requires that males receive twice the inheritance of women.
A dedicated unit for investigating crimes involving women and children is part of the RBPF, and the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sports offered victims' refuge and care. [5] The legal minimum age for marriage in Brunei is 14 years and seven months with parental and participant consent, unless religious or custom laws set a higher minimum age.
Moser and Levy published A Theory and Method of Gender Planning – Meeting Women's Practical and Strategic Needs as a DPU working paper in 1986. [2] The framework is based on Moser's concepts of gender roles and gender needs, and her views on the ways policies should approach gender and development planning. [3]
In 2009, Adina received the Brunei Woman Leader in Civil Society Award. Based on her work an youth and communal development, she was appointed as Brunei's representative to the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children in April 2010. Here, she represented Brunei with regards to children's rights issues.
The United Nations paper International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, issued in 1980, recognized a number of Women in Development issues. It called for women to play an active role in all sectors and at all levels of the Program of Action adopted by the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for ...
The Girl Guides Association of Brunei Darussalam was established on 1 January 1951 [4] in Kuala Belait by R. C. Bell, the wife of the British Resident at the time, and officially registered in Brunei Town (now Bandar Seri Begawan) in 1953. It is exclusively for girls and women, with Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Damit serving as the first patron. [1]
The Women in Development approach was the first contemporary movement to specifically integrate women in the broader development agenda and acted as the precursor to later movements such as the Women and Development (WAD), and ultimately, the Gender and Development approach, departing from some of the criticized aspects imputed to the WID ...
Mary Lim (née Hii Yang Eng; Chinese: 许媽樱; pinyin: Xǔ Māyīng; [1] born 1948) is a Bruneian educator and businesswoman of Chinese descent. [2] Best known as the CEO and founder of Seri Mulia Sarjana School (SMS), [3] she has made contributions to both education and business in Brunei.