Formal Litigation or Informal Mediation | ||
| هرمس | ||
| Article 7, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 89-130 PDF (1021.33 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/herms.2023.354100 | ||
| Author | ||
| Rasha Hassan | ||
| Faculty of Arts, Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Family issues, shape all facts of women's lives and have a significant impact on their well-being. In fact, they restrict their ability from fully participating in public and private spaces. In most parts of the world, personal status laws and cultural norms discriminate against women, seek to expand male power over women, and minimize women's right to make decisions and to take independent action. In Egypt, the rule of law also implies very little for the vast majority of women. This paper hypotheses that laws and informal mediation, including all mediation parties (disputing spouses, children, family, friends, community, and religious leaders), interact together to help women to attain their rights. Drawing on the adaptation of the socio-ecological model, our analysis using the mixed methodology to supplement the qualitative data with analysis of a quantitative survey with divorced males and females that measured their experience towards their disputes in personal status field. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| dispute resolution; personal status law; divorce; mediation; customary law; litigation mechanisms | ||
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