Women And Law In Southern Africa

Author : Beverley Baines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761573
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Constitutionalism written by Beverley Baines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Law in Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Jack Simons
Publisher : Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women written by Harold Jack Simons and published by Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Grant Bowman
Publisher : Sedco Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Law in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Cynthia Grant Bowman and published by Sedco Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Agnete Weis Bentzon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Grounded Theory in Law written by Agnete Weis Bentzon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fareda Banda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847311830
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Law and Human Rights written by Fareda Banda and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Hames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in South Africa written by Mary Hames and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national gender profile describes South Africa's progress and challenges in achieving women's empowerment and gender equality goals. It measures the South African government's achievements against its stated commitments both within its supreme legislation - the Constitution, its policies, the legislative framework it has put in place, as well as the international agreements it is party to. The publication also assesses the impact of the institutional mechanisms for women's advancement that South Africa has put in place since 1994. The approach in gathering information has been comprehensive. The review is based on statistical data taken from the National Statistical Services to indicate major social trends. It also draws from government departments' reports of programmes implemented since 1994, the outcome of provincial and national "Conversations among Women", which took place between July and August 2003; and the Office on the Status of Women (OSW) Audits (1998, 2002, and 2003) of systems in place to enable gender mainstreaming. Information from South Africa's reports on the implementation of the Beijing Platform For Action (BPFA) as well as the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development was used in compiling this national gender profile.

Author : Reem Wael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108599168
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating the Power of NGOs written by Reem Wael and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the socio-political environment that allows for the impactful work of NGOs through their proximity to local communities. The book showcases how this space has helped South African women's rights NGOs to bring about crucial legal reforms, which are quite relevant to women's lived realities. Recognizing its limitations, the South African state encourages NGOs to work freely on the ground and with state institutions to ameliorate the conditions for women's rights. The outcome of this state-NGO dynamic can be seen in the numerous human rights gains achieved by NGOs in general, and by women's rights organizations specifically. In addition, vulnerable communities such as women living under customary law have a significantly better chance to access justice. The book then demonstrates the opposite scenario, using Egypt as a case study, where NGOs are viewed as a national threat, and consequently operate under restrictive rules.

Author : Alice Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Law in Southern Africa written by Alice Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stationary law in Botswana.

Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864860903
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 written by Cherryl Walker and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: