20 legal country profiles have been prepared for twenty Arab countries, analyzing the status of women and their legal and human rights by reviewing more than 420 national laws : family codes, labor laws, nationality and education ... Referring to the constitutions, treaties and international conventions ratified by States and the measures taken to activate their obligations. More than 8,000 legal texts were collected and analyzed from the gender and human rights perspectives to examine the positions of countries in the relevant international conventions.
The most important legal and humanitarian rights: civil and political rights, the right to education and training, legal status and rights within the family, including the right to nationality, the right to health, protection from gender-based violence, the right to work and related social and access to justice.
The exercise focused only on approved and valid laws that have been adopted untill May 2019. Read more
The legal systems were fed by statistics from UNDP reports, gender gap reports and the International Parlia ment Union.
A group of 8 experts from Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Lebanon, each of them worked on one or more axes, assisted by the Research and team leader, for technical support and quality assurance. A group of experts from some Arab countries was also consulted at a first meeting in Cairo in January 2014, which lasted for three days. The Group then returned to work taking into account the observations received during the meeting. Then, in September 2015, two consultative meetings were held with governments and civil society in Cairo and in Amman.
A group of 8 experts from Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Lebanon, each of them worked on one or more axes, assisted by the Research and team leader, for technical support and quality assurance. A group of experts from some Arab countries was also consulted at a first meeting in Cairo in January 2014, which lasted for three days. The Group then returned to work taking into account the observations received during the meeting. Then, in September 2015, two consultative meetings were held with governments and civil society in Cairo and in Amman.
In compliance with the decision made at the 35th Session of the Committee on Arab Women in lJanuary 2015, when the Arab Women Development and Legislation Report was launched, legal systems were sent to the countries concerned for review and enrichment before downloading them into the database and posting them on the Platform.
The Arab Electronic Legal Platform was launched on 8 March 2015, since the Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research « CAWTAR » continued to update the platform with new laws.
In 2018, in order to spread the portal and attract as many visitors as possible, it was agreed to improve the design of the portal and to add some search engines to be easy to use so that they would benefit as much as possible from their unique content in the Arab region.
The upgraded version of the portal was launched on June 10, 2019.