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African Platform For Action Adopted By The Fifth Regional Conference On Women Held At Dakar From 16 To 23 November 1994
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Book Synopsis The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: a commentary by : Frans Viljoen
Download or read book The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: a commentary written by Frans Viljoen and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of PULP commentaries on African human rights law, under the series title: PULP Commentaries on African human rights law Since its adoption on 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) has become a landmark on the African human rights landscape. It has steadily gained prominence as a trail-blazing instrument, responsive to the diverse realities of women on the African continent. This comprehensive Commentary on the Maputo Protocol, the first of its kind, provides systematic analysis of each article of the Protocol, delving into the drafting history, and elaborating on relevant key concepts and normative standards. This Commentary aims to be a ‘one-stop-shop’ for anyone interested in the Maputo Protocol, such as researchers, teachers, students, practitioners, policymakers and activists.
Book Synopsis Patterns on discriminations against woman by : Alessia Carnevale
Download or read book Patterns on discriminations against woman written by Alessia Carnevale and published by Passerino Editore. This book was released on 2022-04-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of women’s human rights has been taking place on the global stage in the last two decades implying a parallel rethinking of human rights conceptions. Since 1980 and 1990, feminists has increasingly criticized mainstreaming interpretation of human rights as stemming from male bias, ensuring that women’s human rights require a comprehensive understanding of societal structures and power relations influencing women ability to enjoy, freely and without any kind of discrimination, their rights. Since power structures affect and involve all aspect of human life, from law to politics, from private to public and community life, specific attention to women’s experiences of discrimination and oppression is required. The adoption of the Convention Against all Forms of Discrimination against Women, certainly represents a fundamental depart from gender-neutral language in international human rights discourses, towards the recognition of specific nature of discrimination against women, acknowledging previous advancements of women’s rights and promoting a progressive affirmation of women’s rights as women’s human rights. This long and detailed negotiation process taking place within United Nations structures and led by women’s rights group and NGOs, culminated in the adoption of Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference on Human Rights held in 1993, affirming that human rights of women are inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights. The articulation of women’ s rights as human rights implied the principle of universality had overcome claims to cultural relativist discourses while at the same time recognizing women and generally individuals free choice to embed themselves in cultural activities and practices that reflect their sense of identity, individually and or collectively, and to freely express symbols of cultural belonging. Secondly, the articulation of women’s rights as human rights overcome the public/ private divide through affirmation of due diligence standards, allowing to determine whether concerned State has taken effective steps to comply with its human rights obligations. In practice, States are required to address social and cultural patterns perpetuating subjection of women in society and stereotyped role. The Plan of Action of International Women Conference in Beijing in 1995 reflects this approach while affirming the significance of national and religious particularities in various historical, cultural and religious systems must be kept in mind, nonetheless is the duty of States, regardless of their political, economic and cultural system to protect and promote all human rights and fundamental freedoms. Despite these values and principles, shared by international community, have been officially enshrined in international human rights law and policy framework, at the same time the difficulties these rules encounter to be accepted as binding and be implemented and enforced into domestic legal and policy framework, emanate from the resistance of many States to assume human rights paradigm as comprehensive of national and regional instances. Alessia Carnevale has graduated in Human Rights and Multi-Level Governance from University of Padua and in Political Sciences and International Relations from University of Naples "L'Orientale". She has been awarded by Fondazione Alessandro Pavesi with the scholarship "Alessandro Pavesi on human rights" in 2019. Passionate about African studies and traveling, she decided to work on the role of African women to foster food security under a human rights approach, specifically in Senegal, inspired by her experience in this country. Indeed she completed in 2014 a stage as project leader involved with the Senegalese team of AIESEC, a youth run global NGO.
Book Synopsis Listening to the Silences: Women and War by : Helen Durham
Download or read book Listening to the Silences: Women and War written by Helen Durham and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the perception that women are exclusively the victims, the caregivers or the passive supporters of men in times of armed conflict, Listening to the Silences: Women and War exposes the reader to a diversity of women’s voices. These voices, both personal and academic, demonstrate that women are increasingly taking on less ‘traditional’ roles during war, and that these roles are multifaceted, complicated and sometimes contradictory. The experiences of a judge, forensic anthropologist, survivor of sexual slavery, soldier, activist, journalist, humanitarian worker and others provide the reader with the opportunity to consider the depth of women’s involvement in armed conflict. Their voices highlight the fact that the international community at large has historically failed to listen to women, even as they have tried to tell their own individual tales of horror, heroism, courage, devastation, betrayal, violence and integrity during armed conflict. Concurrently the book examines in detail the legal infrastructure in this area, including debates on the adequacy of international law; developments in jurisprudence and the implementation of international resolutions. This book reveals that responses to women’s requirements during times of war will continue to be inadequate so long as we persist in silencing these differing perspectives and fail to take account of women’s dynamic and changing needs during war. Listening to the Silences: Women and War is a collection of women’s voices, each of which makes a unique contribution to a topic that is gathering international momentum and interest. The perspectives of these women greatly enhance our understanding of the gendered dimensions of armed conflict - they help to move the discourse beyond silence and towards inclusion, greater understanding and peace.
Book Synopsis Women, Armed Conflict and International Law by : Judith G. Gardam
Download or read book Women, Armed Conflict and International Law written by Judith G. Gardam and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role that gender plays in determining the experience of those caught up in armed conflict has long been overlooked. Moreover, the extent to which gender influences the international legal regime designed to address the humanitarian problems arising from armed conflict has similarly been ignored. In the early 1990s, prompted by extensive media coverage of the rape of women during the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina, the international community was forced to critically examine the capacity of international law to respond to such crimes. The prevalence of sexual violence, is, however, merely one aspect of the distinctive impact of conflict on women. Although a range of factors influence the way individual women experience armed conflict, the endemic gender discrimination that exists in all societies is a common theme: from Cambodia, where women land-mine victims are less likely to receive treatment for their injuries than are men; to South Africa, where women widowed during the Apartheid years have become outcasts in their own society. To date, the extent to which international law addresses the myriad of ways in which women are affected by armed conflict has received little attention. This work takes the experience of women of armed conflict, matches it with existing provisions of international law, and investigates reasons for the silence of the latter in relation to these events for women. It is the first broad-based critique of international humanitarian law from a gender perspective. The contribution of the United Nations, through its focus on human rights, to improving the protection of women in armed conflict is also considered. The authors underscore the need for new approaches to the issue of women and armed conflict, and canvass a range of options for moving forward.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism by : Ifi Amadiume
Download or read book Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the idea of a collectivist, humanist culture of traditional African matriarchal heritage, Ifi Amadiume contrasts daughters of the Goddess to a corrupt and oppressive culture of imperialism that she argues is the heritage of contemporary elite-led women's organizations. She examines the activities of such organizations in Nigeria, making comparisons with those in Britain and South Africa as well as international movements; looking at the 1995 Beijing International Women's Conferences, she explores internationalism as an instrument of class reproduction. The author provides a detailed account of the structures and workings of local government in Nigeria and Britain as she raises theoretical and policy issues about civic groups, civil society and the nature of the late twentieth century state. Finally, Professor Amadiume draws lessons from her own experiences working in local government to suggest measures for true gender equity and the democratisation of politics in our increasingly multicultural and multiethnic societies. This book asks some hard questions of contemporary feminist movements and provides the most detailed account available of Nigerian women's politics.
Book Synopsis Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents by : Deborah Levison
Download or read book Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents written by Deborah Levison and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social processes and culturally-specific discourses; as objects of policy intervention and other adult power plays; and also as active agents who act on their world and make meaning even amidst conditions of social, political, and economic marginalization. In addition, the book is centrally engaged with questions about how researchers take into consideration children’s and young people’s own conceptions of themselves and how we conceptualize child and youth potentials for agency at different ages and stages of growing up. Each chapter discusses substantive research but also engages in self-reflection about methodology, positionality, and/or disciplinarity, thus making the volume especially useful for teaching. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls’ studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public policy, cultural studies, gender and women’s studies and global studies.
Book Synopsis The Elimination of Sexual Apartheid by : Rebecca J. Cook
Download or read book The Elimination of Sexual Apartheid written by Rebecca J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 48 (1994) by : United Nations
Download or read book Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 48 (1994) written by United Nations and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully indexed, the 1994 edition of the Yearbook is the single most current, comprehensive and authoritative reference publication about the work of the United Nations, other international organizations and related bodies. The book is designed not just for use by diplomats, officials and scholars but also by other researchers, writers, journalists, teachers and students. The year 1994 was a remarkably eventful one for the United Nations and in the conduct of international relations. This volume of the Yearbook details the activities of the United Nations, its many organs, agencies and programmes, working together to rekindle a new form of multilateral cooperation for a better world. It records the diverse and globe-encompassing activities of the United Nations and its enduring efforts to deal with the world's pressing concerns, particularly matters of international peace and security, disarmament, human rights, the settlement of regional conflicts, economic and social development, the preservation of the environment, control of drugs and narcotic substance abuse, crime prevention, adequate shelter, youth and the ageing and humanitarian assistance for refugees as well as disaster relief.
Book Synopsis The Nigerian Legal System by : Charles Mwalimu
Download or read book The Nigerian Legal System written by Charles Mwalimu and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 on public law provides an introduction to the Nigerian legal system. The various chapters deal with: introduction and sources of law; jurisprudence and Nigerian perspectives; African customary law; Islamic law; comparative constitutionalism and Nigerian perspectives; citizenship, immigration and administrative law; judicial system and legal profession; criminal law, evidence and civil procedure; statutory marriage and divorce laws; customary marriage and divorce; marriage and divorce under Islamic law; matters of children; gender and law in Nigeria with emphasis on Islamic law. Volume 2 has 25 chapters on private law that includes security of the environment and environmental law, land and property administration, commercial business and trade laws, communication, media and press laws, transportation and carrier laws, law enforcement, armed forces and military laws, investments, and intellectual property.
Book Synopsis Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women by : Cheris Kramarae
Download or read book Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women written by Cheris Kramarae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 2050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.
Download or read book African Voices written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newsletter on democracy and governance in Africa.
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Book Synopsis Women, Peace and Security by : Funmi Olonisakin
Download or read book Women, Peace and Security written by Funmi Olonisakin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries. UN Resolution 1325 was adopted in October 2000, and was the first time that the security concerns of women in situations of armed conflict and their role in peacebuilding was placed on the agenda of the UN Security Council. It was an important step forward in terms of bringing women’s rights and gender equality to bear in the UN’s peace and security agenda. More than a decade after the adoption of this Resolution, its practical reality is yet to be substantially felt on the ground in the very societies and regions where women remain disproportionately affected by armed conflict and grossly under-represented in peace processes. This realization, in part, led to the adoption in 2008 and 2009 of three other Security Council Resolutions, on sexual violence in conflict, violence against women, and for the development of indicators to measure progress in addressing women, peace and security issues. The book draws together the findings from eight countries and four regional contexts to provide guidance on how the impact of Resolution 1325 can be measured, and how peacekeeping operations could improve their capacity to effectively engender security. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, gender studies, the United Nations, international security and IR in general.
Book Synopsis Radical Utu by : Besi Brillian Muhonja
Download or read book Radical Utu written by Besi Brillian Muhonja and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize. While many studies of Maathai highlight her activism, few examine Maathai as a scholar whose contributions to various disciplines and causes spanned more than three decades. In Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta Maathai, Besi Brillian Muhonja presents the words and works of Maathai as theoretical concepts attesting to her contributions to gender equality, democratic spaces, economic equity and global governance, and indigenous African languages and knowledges. Muhonja’s well-rounded portrait of Maathai’s ideas offers a corrective to the one-dimensional characterization of Maathai typical of other works.
Book Synopsis The Human Rights of Women by : Wolfgang Benedek
Download or read book The Human Rights of Women written by Wolfgang Benedek and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note by the editors
Book Synopsis Report of the Secretary-General by : Canadian Commission for Unesco
Download or read book Report of the Secretary-General written by Canadian Commission for Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Negotiating Power and Privilege by : Philomina Ezeagbor Okeke-Ihejirika
Download or read book Negotiating Power and Privilege written by Philomina Ezeagbor Okeke-Ihejirika and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Power and Privilege captures the voices of African female professionals and vividly portrays the women's continuous negotiation as wives, mothers, single women, and workers.
