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Author : Sandra Liebenberg
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : South Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061865726
Based on the proceedings of a conference held in Cape Town, 1995.
Author : Johan vande Lanotte,Jeremy Serkin,Yves Haeck
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9062157556
The right to equal treatment is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental human rights. As such, it can be found in international human rights treaties, in constitutions and in national legislation. In this book the principle of equality is analysed from different angles, bearing in mind the South African and Belgian experiences in this area. Firstly, a general overview is given of the different sources of human rights law in the Belgian and South African legal system, the relation between international and national law, the direct applicability and third party-applicability of rights and freedoms in the legal order(s), and the implementation mechanisms available both in Belgium and South Africa. Secondly, the principle of equality, as found in the Belgian Constitution, in the European Convention on Human Rights and in the South African Constitution, and the South African Antidiscrimination Bill are analyzed. Finally, the principle of equality is being studied from a thematic perspective, i.e. with regard to the use of languages and from a gender perspective. The book is concluded with a contribution on the access to medical and health care in South Africa.
Author : Helen Irving
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784716967
Constitutions and gender is a new and exciting field, attracting scholarly attention and influencing practice around the world. This timely handbook features contributions from leading pioneers and younger scholars, applying a gendered lens to constitution-making and design, constitutional practice and citizenship, and constitutional challenges to gender equality rights and values. It offers a gendered perspective on the constitutional text and record of multiple jurisdictions, from the long-established, to the world’s newly emerging democracies. Constitutions and Gender portrays a profound shift in our understanding of what constitutions stand for and what they do.
Author : Ingelore Welpe,Britta Thege
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061432582
The constitutional and legislative framework within the Southern African Development Community provides a positive institutional environment to ensure mainstreaming gender concerns. However, the translation and implementation of the gender perspective is at times lacking. Both agenda setting as an instrument of change management and reorganisation procedures are not used enough in the fields of economy, organisation and health. These three areas are crucial partly due to their interconnectivity and also because of their vital importance to the successful sustainable development of SADC nation. This volume results from the findings of a conference hosted by the Institute of Women and Gender Studies, Kiel, and the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, Pretoria.
Author : A. Dobrowolsky,V. Hart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403944085
This volume provides a timely and revealing account of women's constitutional strategies and struggles. It compares and contrasts the latest constitutional developments within the United Kingdom with women's past and present struggles in countries including Canada, the United States and South Africa. Through theoretical engagement and practical experiences, the contributors develop crucial arguments on the nature and effect of constitutional change, equality, women's rights and representation. This shows how women, through their words and deeds, have challenged and shaped the nature and forms of constitutionalism.
Author : Penelope Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317132462
Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. By applying this process of legal transformation as a paradigm, the author applies this model to Afghanistan. These two societies serve as counterpoints through which the book engages, in a nuanced and novel way, with the many broader issues that flow from the attempts in newly democratic societies to give effect to the promise of gender equality. Developing the idea of ’conditional interdependence’, the book suggests a new approach based on the communitarian values which underpin newly democratic societies and would allow women’s rights to gain momentum and reap greater benefits. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Legislative bodies
ISBN : UOM:39015060884098
Author : Mary Hames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822034607051
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 : Penelope Andrews,Stephen Ellmann
Publisher : Ohio University Center for International Studies
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X006126793
In a book which offers a unique range of perspectives on the development of South Africa's Interim and final Constitutions, scholars, practising lawyers, members of the judiciary and the Human Rights Commission, and political leaders illuminate the many issues of process, substance and context presented by the Constitutions. Essays on process make clear the challenges and the triumphs of South Africa's constitutional rebirth. The authors examine such questions as the extent of popular involvement in South Africa's exercise in constitution writing, the impact of political force, human transformation, and reasoned persuasion on the agreements that were reached, and the Constitutional Court's extraordinary role in assessing the negotiators' efforts. Contributions on the substance of the Constitution address both its human rights provisions and issues of governmental structure and institutional context. The articles on rights attest to the breadth of the new rights protections, with essays on free speech, socio-economic rights and their application to private actors, women's rights, traditional authority, cultural rights, and the rights of non-citizens. Chapters on structure and context reflect how important the institutions through which a government operates are to the actual implementation of the Constitution's aspirations. These wide-ranging pieces look at three of the newly created structures of South African government -- the federal aspects of the Constitutions, the Constitutional Court, and the Human Rights Commission -- and at the process of change in the criminal justice system, a particularly important institution carried over from an old order.
Author : Elsje Bonthuys,Cathi Albertyn
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0702176648
Feminist lawyers have long been engaged in critiquing the gendered nature of South African law. This project has increased in importance and scope as a result of the centrality of gender equality, as a value and a substantive right, in the South African Constitution. Gender, Law and Justice provides both theoretical and practical tools to enable academic and practising lawyers to apply concepts of gender equality to the law. It introduces readers to basic feminist concepts and arguments, and to a wealth of local, comparative and international material on gender and the law. It also illustrates how the law may be shaped to transform the social, cultural and economic conditions of women's lives in South Africa, at the same time as it acknowledges the limits of legal strategies for change. This book has three main objectives. The first is to identify the different positions of women in South Africa and to examine the disparate impact of the legal system on their lives. Secondly, it aims to expose the gender bias in legal concepts and in the content and application of legal rules. Thirdly, it suggests changes to the law, and evaluates those changes that have already occurred, with a view to developing the law so that it is better able to ensure justice and meet the diverse needs of women in South Africa.
Author : Fareda Banda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 1472563468
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 justifi.
Author : Beverley Baines,Ruth Rubio-Marin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 052153027X
To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women's lives, the contributors examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in 12 countries, covering cases about reproductive, sexual, familial, socio-economic, and democratic rights, and focussing on women's claims to equality.
Author : Danie Brand,Christof H. Heyns
Publisher : PULP
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780620340861
Author : Rosalind Dixon,Theunis Roux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108415330
Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Communication and technology
ISBN : 9780889369030
Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa