Women And Minority Rights Law In Africa

Author : Michael Addaney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9462369461

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Women and Minority Rights Law in Africa by Michael Addaney Pdf

This book brings together contributions from emerging African and internationally recognized scholars in the field of international human rights law and policy in general and women and minority rights in particular. Its primary aim is to further the development of African scholarship and to reinforce the international discourse on women and minority rights in a time of rapid change. The book analyses the various challenges that impede the promotion, protection and realization of the rights of women, girls and other minority groups in Africa. It calls for the building of strong institutions as well as the involvement of both state and non-state actors in advancing and safeguarding the rights of women and minority groups in Africa through legal reforms and robust institutional mechanisms for the enforcement of relevant laws and policies. The book is of great interest to scholars, practitioners, students, government officials and women and minority rights organizations in Africa and beyond.

Author : Fareda Banda,Christine Chinkin
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781904584223

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Gender, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples by Fareda Banda,Christine Chinkin Pdf

While it is generally acknowledged that women suffer discrimination, women who are also members of minority or indigenous communities are particularly marginalized. Like male members of minority and indigenous communities, they lack access to political power and face discrimination in their access to services and rights. However, as women they face these problems and more. The aim of this report is to encourage those working on minority and indigenous peoples’ rights to consider the issues from a gender perspective, and to encourage those working on gender equality and women’s rights to include minorities and indigenous peoples within their remit. The report is written by Fareda Banda and Christine Chinkin, who are both international human rights lawyers and gender specialists. It has an international law and advocacy focus. First, the basic concepts an relevant international human rights instruments are set out. Then, using case studies and examples from around the world. the authors show how gender intersects with other forms of discrimination on the lives of some minority and indigenous peoples. Key issues for minority and indigenous peoples are stressed, and there is a nuanced discussion of the issue of culture, which can be both a positive and negative force in relation to women’s human rights. The report concludes with a set of recommendations. This report will be essential reading for anyone interested in issues of gender and the human rights of minorities and indigenous peoples.

Author : M. Raymond Izarali,Oliver Masakure,Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351398466

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Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa by M. Raymond Izarali,Oliver Masakure,Bonny Ibhawoh Pdf

This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized persons are denied such rights through criminalization and persecution. African countries have a good record of signing and ratifying international and regional rights instruments but the political will and capacity for enforcing these with respect to minorities remain weak. International contributors to the book provide new perspectives on the rights of marginalized and minority groups in different parts of Africa and the extent to which they are deprived or denied entitlement to the universality and equality articulated in law. The authors show that human rights, while having come of age as a moral ideal, has not been fully entrenched in practice towards groups such as children, indigenous populations, the mentally ill, persons with disabilities, and persons with albinism. This volume is geared toward scholars, students, human rights groups, policy makers, social workers, international organizations, and policy makers in the fields of criminology, security studies, development studies, political science, sociology, children studies, social psychology, international relations, postcolonial studies, and African Studies.

Author : Moha Ennaji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 1569024049

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Minorities, Women, and the State in North Africa by Moha Ennaji Pdf

Author : Ivy Nyarango,John Osogo Ambani,Seth Muchuma Wekesa,Ella Scheepers,Ishtar Lakhani,Busisiwe Deyi,Esau Mandipa,Roopanand Amar Mahadew,Darsheenee Singh Raumnauth,Emerson Lopes,Lame Charmaine Olebile,Victor Oluwasina Ayeni,Azubike Chinwuba Onuora-Oguno,Michel Togue
Publisher : PULP
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781920538606

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Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa by Ivy Nyarango,John Osogo Ambani,Seth Muchuma Wekesa,Ella Scheepers,Ishtar Lakhani,Busisiwe Deyi,Esau Mandipa,Roopanand Amar Mahadew,Darsheenee Singh Raumnauth,Emerson Lopes,Lame Charmaine Olebile,Victor Oluwasina Ayeni,Azubike Chinwuba Onuora-Oguno,Michel Togue Pdf

Author : Solomon Dersso
Publisher : PULP
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 9780981442020

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Perspectives on the Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Africa by Solomon Dersso Pdf

Author : Indrani Sen Gupta
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8182052831

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Human Rights of Minority and Women's: Women and human rights development by Indrani Sen Gupta Pdf

Author : Silvia Gagliardi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0367499878

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Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law by Silvia Gagliardi Pdf

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law. Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book unpacks and challenges generally accepted notions of rights and equality. Significantly, and controversially, the book challenges the supposedly 'emancipatory' power vested in the human rights project; arguing that rights-based discourses are sites of contestation for different groups that use them to assert their agency in society. More specifically, it shows how the very conditions that make minority and indigenous women instrumental to the preservation of their culture may condemn them to a position of subalternity. In response, and engaging the notion and meaning of Islamic feminism, the book proposes that feminism should be interpreted and contextualised locally in order to be effective and inclusive, and so in order for the human rights project to fully realise its potential to empower the marginalised and make space for their voices to be heard. Providing a detailed, empirically based, analysis of rights in action, this book will be of relevance to scholars, students and practitioners in human rights policy and practice, in international law, minorities' and indigenous peoples' rights, gender studies, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

Author : Fareda Banda,C. M. Chinkin
Publisher : Minority Rights Group Publications
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X004837769

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Gender, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples by Fareda Banda,C. M. Chinkin Pdf

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press forCaxton Press "It requires but little if any, stretch of the imagination to regard Omaha as a cesspool of iniquity, for it is given up to lawlessness and is overrun with a horde of fugitives from justice and dangerous men of all kinds who carry things with a high hand and a loose rein... If you want to find a rogue's rookery, go to Omaha." A Kansas City newspaper.

Author : Ibrahima Kane (lawyer.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131778784

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Protecting the Rights of Minorities in Africa by Ibrahima Kane (lawyer.) Pdf

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide, and to promote cooperation and understanding between communities.

Author : United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D035326161

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Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights by United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

"The present guide offers information related to norms and mechanisms developed to protect the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. It includes detailed information about procedures and forums in which minority issues may be raised to minorities and by also covering selected specialized agencies and regional mechanisms, the present Guide complements information contained in Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society"--Introduction.

Author : Jay A. Sigler
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983-12-02
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015008296850

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Minority Rights by Jay A. Sigler Pdf

The unprecedented mass movement of populations since World War II has increased tensions among groups of people by breaking down the homogeneity of older countries and increasing the fragility of newly independent states encompassing several minorities within their borders. These changes, according to author Jay Sigler, dictate the necessity of clarifying human and minority rights. He highlights the main points of minority rights, traces their history, and demonstrates their distinctly modern features. Sigler considers the theoretical implications of minority versus individual and collective rights and examines the efforts in this area made by the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Finally, he proposes his own provisional theory of minority rights.

Author : Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz,Emma Charlene Lubaale
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030759537

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Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume II by Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz,Emma Charlene Lubaale Pdf

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts. As a global and long-standing issue, violence against women is gaining public visibility across the African continent with some states announcing a national crisis warranting immediate redress. At the global level, the elimination of all forms of violence against all women and girls forms a key part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. Split across two volumes, these books present a comprehensive analysis of the latest research and theories, principles and practices of criminal justice systems, criminal justice accountability mechanisms, and the key challenges women face in their quest for justice on the African continent. This volume (II) focusses on sexual violence and vulnerable women’s access to justice in Africa. Volume I focusses on legislation and its impact, the limitations of criminal justice responses, and the cultural and social norms regarding access to justice. Together, they adopt a comparative approach that highlight gaps and good practices to provide a rich source of authoritative information for promoting an intra-African dialogue and cross-fertilization of ideas across the different criminal justice traditions in Africa. Both volumes seek to advance discussions on eliminating violence against women in Africa and speak to those interested in criminal justice, violence, gender studies and African legal studies.

Author : Kristin Henrard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313012143

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Minority Protection in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Kristin Henrard Pdf

Accommodation of population diversity is a vital issue for any multinational society. The legacy of Apartheid in South Africa complicates this effort considerably. Henrard introduces a theoretical framework regarding how to accommodate minority protection in the most appropriate way and analyzes the respective contributions of individual rights, minority rights, and the right to self-determination. Subsequent chapters examine the case study of post-apartheid South Africa and attempt to investigate its constitutional development. Henrard finds that provisions within the 1996 Constitution do acknowledge an interrelation between these three important factors; however, implementation of minority protection policy is often quite a different matter. In seeking appropriate means of minority protection, this study stresses inclusionism, integration, and the essential right to identity and real equality. While Henrard reviews and discusses the entire democratic transformation process in South Africa, she cautions that, because current developments are characterized by their unsettled nature, major transformation and flux, analysis of the implementation phase can be only indicative. The apartheid history does not in itself inhibit progressive stances on this important issue. Still, despite the promising nature of the 1996 Constitution, the picture that emerges in terms of policy development aimed at minority protection is ambivalent.

Author : Sanja Kelly,Julia Breslin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442203976

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Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa by Sanja Kelly,Julia Breslin Pdf

Freedom HouseOs innovative publication WomenOs Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance analyzes the status of women in the region, with a special focus on the gains and setbacks for womenOs rights since the first edition was released in 2005. The study presents a comparative evaluation of conditions for women in 17 countries and one territory: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (Palestinian Authority and Israeli-Occupied Territories), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The publication identifies the causes and consequences of gender inequality in the Middle East, and provides concrete recommendations for national and international policymakers and implementers. Freedom House is an independent nongovernmental organization that supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights. The project has been embraced as a resource not only by international players like the United Nations and the World Bank, but also by regional womenOs rights organizations, individual activists, scholars, and governments worldwide. WomenOs rights in each country are assessed in five key areas: (1) Nondiscrimination and Access to Justice; (2) Autonomy, Security, and Freedom of the Person; (3) Economic Rights and Equal Opportunity; (4) Political Rights and Civic Voice; and (5) Social and Cultural Rights. The methodology is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the study results are presented through a set of numerical scores and analytical narrative reports.