Women, Laws, Customs, and Practices in East Africa
Author : Janet W. Kabeberi-Macharia
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Janet W. Kabeberi-Macharia
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Women
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Author : Gita Gopal
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780821345665
The impetus for change in African legal reform is coming primarily from African women themselves, as they respond to their personal and practical experiences with the law. Top-down imposition of norms has not worked; if legal reform is to lead to sustainable equity for women, the voices of these women must be heard. Given that previous efforts to ensure greater equity in personal laws have not been fully successful in eastern African countries, any new legal initiatives must not repeat the mistakes of the past. Law must not again remain merely on the books as a legitimizing tool that reinforces or supports gender discrimination, but must actively protect and guard the interests of both men and women. This paper attempts to draw out some possible lessons from past experience to inform new efforts at legal reform in these countries. It examines the laws related to allocation of economic resources within households in the broader historical, social, and cultural context in some of these countries, and examines the effectiveness of these laws in challenging gender relationships.
Author : Gita Gopal
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law and economic development
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Author : Njeri Karuru
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Women
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Author : Sanja Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442203978
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.
Author :
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sex discrimination against women
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Author : Marjolein Benschop
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Housing
ISBN : 9789211316636
Author : Kivutha Kibwana
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Women
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Author : Leonhard Praeg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900445795X
As academic subject African philosophy is predominantly concerned with epistemology. It aims at re-presenting a lost body of authentic African thought. This apparently austere a-historical concern is framed by a grand narrative of liberation that cannot but politicise the quest for epistemological autonomy. By “politicise” I mean that the desire to re-cover an authentic African epistemology in order to establish African philosophy as autonomous subject, ironically re-iterates Western, enlightenment notions of the autonomous subject. Here, in the pursuit of an autonomous subject the terms of historical oppression are necessarily duplicated in the terms of liberation. In this study I use the term disfigurement to refer to the double-bind - peculiar to post-coloniality - in which the African subject finds itself when it has to establish and affirm a sense of apartheid (in order to confirm the assumption of difference) by inventing its own autonomy in a way that ironically conflicts with an African conception of the autonomous subject. The transcendental concern with epistemological authenticity and autonomy - indicative of an oppressive desire for Western style autonomy - necessary as it may be in a post-colonial context, is placed in an ethical framework that seeks to remain faithful to the African dictum of identity and autonomy “I am because we are”. Whereas the first three chapters are concerned with the transcendental question ‘what is African philosophy?’, the fourth and last chapter situates the ethical framework within which this question arises in the context of the recently “completed” South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Author : Birgit Englert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This collection examines women's land rights in East Africa in the context of land tenure reforms and privatization.