Full Description
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.
Contents
1 Safeguarding Women and Minority Rights in Africa: Conceptual Foundations; Part I Women's Rights and the Law: Remaking Equality and Combating Discrimination in Africa; 2 Protecting and Promoting Women's Rights in Nigeria: Constraints and Prospects; 3 Realising Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Tanzania; 4 Balancing Women's Rights with Societal Norms: The Case against Domestic Violence, Social Menace and Legal Prospects for Effective Enforcements in Nigeria; 5 Justice for Rape Victims in Uganda: Definitional Crises and Errors of Justice in Prosecuting Rape Cases; 6 Towards EndingChild Marriage in Africa:TheRole of African Union Law and Institutions; 7 Addressing Sexual Violence againstWomen and Girlswith Albinism in Tanzania: Legal Gaps and Social Challenges; Part II Safeguarding the Human Rights of Vulnerable Groups in 21st Century Africa; 8 Advancing of LGBTI Rights through Corporate Social Responsibility in Uganda; 9 Constitutional Boundaries to Human Rights in Ghana: Measuring the Scope of Private and Public Interests in the 'Right' to Sexual Orientation; 10 The Boko Haram Insurgency and the Right to Education of Displaced Children in Nigeria; 11 Climate-Induced Displacement and Protecting the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples in Africa; 12 Statelessness and the Protection of the Rights of Children in Africa; 13 Hungry to Learn: Revisiting Chronic Hunger and Student Protest in South Africa
