Women Law In West Africa
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Women And Law In West Africa
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Author : Akua Kuenyehia
language : en
Publisher: Walwa
Release Date : 2003
Women And Law In West Africa written by Akua Kuenyehia and has been published by Walwa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Domestic relations categories.
A study of legal issues affecting women in West Africa, looking at how women cope.
Women And Law In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Cynthia Grant Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Sedco Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Women And Law In Sub Saharan Africa written by Cynthia Grant Bowman and has been published by Sedco Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Law categories.
Examines legal problems that affect the status of women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Includes a collection of cases and statutes from various African nations. Presents commentaries by African authors.
African Women The Law
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Author : Margaret Jean Hay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
African Women The Law written by Margaret Jean Hay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Political Science categories.
Gender And The Judiciary In Africa
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Author : Gretchen Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-30
Gender And The Judiciary In Africa written by Gretchen Bauer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-30 with Political Science categories.
Between 2000 and 2015, women ascended to the top of judiciaries across Africa, most notably as chief justices of supreme courts in common law countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia, but also as presidents of constitutional courts in civil law countries such as Benin, Burundi, Gabon, Niger and Senegal. Most of these appointments was a "first" in terms of the gender of the chief justice. At the same time, women are being appointed in record numbers as magistrates, judges and justices across the continent. While women’s increasing numbers and roles in African executives and legislatures have been addressed in a burgeoning scholarly literature, very little work has focused on women in judiciaries. This book addresses the important issue of the increasing numbers and varied roles of women judges and justices, as judiciaries evolve across the continent. Scholars of law, gender politics and African politics provide overviews of recent developments in gender and the judiciary in nine African countries that represent north, east, southern and west Africa as well as a range of colonial experiences, postcolonial trajectories and legal systems, including mixes of common, civil, customary, or sharia law. In the process, each chapter seeks to address the following questions: What has been the historical experience of the judicial system in a given country, from before colonialism until the present? What is the current court structure and where are the women judges, justices, magistrates and other women located? What are the selection or appointment processes for joining the bench and in what ways may these help or hinder women to gain access to the courts as judges and justices? Once they become judges, do women on the bench promote the rights of women through their judicial powers? What are the challenges and obstacles facing women judges and justices in Africa? Timely and relevant in this era in which governmental accountability and transparency are essential to the consolidation of democracy in Africa and when women are accessing significant leadership positions across the continent, this book considers the substantive and symbolic representation of women’s interests by women judges and the wider implications of their presence for changing institutional norms and advancing the rule of law and human rights.
Women Law And Human Rights
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Author : Fareda Banda
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2005-10-04
Women Law And Human Rights written by Fareda Banda and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-04 with Law categories.
Africa, with its mix of statute, custom and religion is at the centre of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations. This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its impact on the cultural relativism debate within human rights. It is therefore important to examine critically the role of law, broadly constructed, in African societies. The book focuses on women's experiences in the family. This is because the lives of women continue to be lived out largely in the private domain, where the right to privacy is used to conceal unequal treatment of women which is justified by invoking 'custom' and 'tradition'. The book shows how law and its interpretation is used to disenfranchise women, resulting in their being deprived of land and other property which they may have helped to accumulate. It also considers issues of violence within the home, reproductive rights and examines the issue of female genital cutting. The role of women in development is explored as is their participation in politics and the NGO sector. A major theme of the book is a consideration of the linkages of constitutional and international human rights norms with local values. This is done using feminist tools of analysis. The book considers the provisions of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women which was adopted by the African Union in July 2003.
In Search Of Equality
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Author : Stefanie Röhrs
language : en
Publisher: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Release Date : 2014-02-28
In Search Of Equality written by Stefanie Röhrs and has been published by Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-28 with Law categories.
Just over 50 years ago several African countries drew up new Constitutions which included protocols such as the Protocol on the Rights of Women. Decades later, has constitutional reform brought gender equality to women in Africa? And what does gender equality mean in the everyday lives of women on the continent? The contributors to this volume provide insights into women's rights in seven African countries - Cote d'Ivoire, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. Each looks at the causes, context and consequences of the struggle to uphold women's rights. Their case studies illustrate property-grabbing in Malawi, women's citizenship in Nigeria, and the rise of hate crimes and sexual violence against black lesbians in South Africa, among other issues.
Voices Of African Women
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Author : Johanna Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Voices Of African Women written by Johanna Bond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women's rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the last decade, women's human rights have been the focus of significant attention at the international level. There remains, however, a dearth of information concerning the application and relevance of international norms at grassroots levels within Africa. There are few works about women's human rights within Africa that are actually written by African women lawyers and human rights activists. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of women in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania; it describes -- in their own words -- the challenges these activists face in implementing international human rights norms at the local and national levels. "The contributors are a unique set of talented analysts... Introductions for each chapter are by Johanna Bond, whose precise summaries and analyses of the topics systematize what would otherwise be repetitive evidence found in similar circumstances in these African countries. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, November 2005 "The book is well worth space on...professionals' bookshelves." -- African Studies Association, 2006 "The book is useful and essential reading for anyone interested in women's rights in Africa. This has to be the most detailed and up-to-date book on women's rights in this region." -- Modern African Studies
Women In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Edda Ivan-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Women In Sub Saharan Africa written by Edda Ivan-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Political Science categories.
Women Law In East Africa
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Author : Njeri Karuru
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Women Law In East Africa written by Njeri Karuru and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Women categories.
Women Of Africa
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Author : Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
language : en
Publisher: London : Zed Press ; Totowa, N.J., U.S.A. : U.S. distributor, Biblio Distribution Center
Release Date : 1983
Women Of Africa written by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli and has been published by London : Zed Press ; Totowa, N.J., U.S.A. : U.S. distributor, Biblio Distribution Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Social Science categories.
Examination of the living conditions and economic role of women in Africa - studies colonialism traditional culture and social change; the family, marriage, divorce, polygamy and women's rights; labour force participation of woman workers and rural women; examines population control incl. Family planning; discusses education of women, political participation, magic and religious practices, etc. Bibliography.