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Access to justice is a fundamental right guaranteed under a wide body of international, regional and domestic law. It is also an essential component of development policies which seek to adequately respond to the multidimensional deprivations faced by the poor in order to improve socio-economic well-being and advance the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals. Women and children make up most of Africa's poorest and most marginalized population, and as such are often prevented from enforcing rights or seeking other recourse.
This book explores and analyzes the issue of gendered access to justice, poverty and disempowerment across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and provides policy discussions on the integration of gender in justice programming. Through individual country case studies, the book focuses on the challenges, obstacles and successes of developing and implementing gender focused access to justice policies and programming in the region.
This multidisciplinary volume will be of interest to policy makers as well as scholars and researchers focusing on poverty and gender policy across law, economics and global development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the volume provides policy discussion applicable in other geographical areas where access to justice is elusive for the poor and marginalized.
Contents
List of illustrations. List of contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I. Access to justice in Sub-Saharan Africa: justice policies on reaching the most vulnerable and extreme poor 1 Engendering access to justice for the poorest and most vulnerable in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2 Access to justice for children in Zimbabwe. 3 Children, forced and early marriage: preventing and responding to early marriage in Uganda. 4 A child belongs to (s)he who has paid the bride price: customary law adoption of children in Limpopo, South Africa. Part II. Women - violence and vulnerability 5 Integrating gender and access to justice into the public policy of the African Union. 6 Access to justice, gender and customary marriage laws in Malawi. 7 Justice for women in traditional and customary courts in Sierra Leone: a feminist analysis. 8 Engendering access to justice in Nigeria: the role of public interest litigation. 9 Without land, without justice: how women's lack of land rights impedes access to justice. Part III. Advocacy and vulnerability for Sub-Saharan Africa's poorest 10 Conflict-related sexual violence and access to justice: the case of the Central African Republic. 11 Domestic violence against rural women in Nigeria: effective access to justice? 12 Strengthening access to justice for women refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa. 13 Conclusion: gendered Justice Policies on Reaching the most Vulnerable and Extreme Poor in SSA. Index.
