Human rights, plural legalities, and gendered realities : paths are made by walking
Human rights, plural legalities, and gendered realities : paths are made by walking paths are made by walking /
Anne Hellum ... [et al.].
- Harare : Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, University of Zimbabwe with Weaver Press, 2007.
- xliv, 472 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- North-south legal perspective series .
- North-South legal perspectives series ; no. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Families and feminism : caring for mum and dad / Kär contracts in Norway. Agreements made by men concerning women's work, ownership and lives / Working with custom. Promoting children's rights to livelihood by making de facto guardians responsible / Women's burden : women, HIV/AIDS and home-based care in Zimbabwe / Human rights encountering gendered land and water uses. Family gardens and the right to water in Mhondoro communal land / Making gender visible in law : Kwena women's access to power and resources / Following God's constitution. The gender dimensions in the Ogiek claim to Mau forest complex / Rural women's access to landed property. Unearthing the realities within an East African setting / Women's work, perceived contribution and access to land in India / Engendering the human rights protection of property rights : women's local land use in Tanzania / I can't go to school today / Where is the toilet? Getting down basics in accessing women's rights / From human development to human rights. A southern African perspective on women and teenage girls' right to reproductive choice / New fellow citizens : challenges and possibilities : implementing human rights among immigrants, the case of female circumcision in Norway / Interpretative strategies for women's rights in a plural legal framework. Exploring judicial and state responses to Hudood laws in Pakistan / The widows' and female child's portion. The twisted path to partial equality for widows and daughters under customary law in Zimbabwe / Reconceptualizing the role of legal information dissemination in the context of legal pluralism in African settings / Ann Stewart -- Tove M. Bolstad -- Henrietta Wolayo Ssemmanda -- Ellen Sithole -- Anne Hellum -- Anne Griffiths -- Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Jacinta Anyango Oduor -- Rie Odgaard and Agnete Weis Bentzon -- Reena Patel -- Ingunn Ikdahl -- Julie Stewart -- Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Anne Hellum and Anne Lene Staib Knudsen -- Gro Hillestad Thune -- Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Julie Stewart and Amy Tsanga -- Amy S. Tsanga.
"This book addresses a current dilemma in the operationalization of human rights norms at state, regional and international levels, namely, the apparent failure to deliver the projected human rights benefits and protections to individuals on the ground."--BOOK JACKET.
9781779220622 1779220626
2007380764
Women's rights--Africa, Eastern.
Women's rights--Africa, Southern.
Women--Social conditions.--Africa, Eastern
Women--Social conditions.--Africa, Southern
Women's rights.
Women--Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Africa, Eastern.
Africa, Southern.
Donation
HQ1236 / .H86
323.096
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Families and feminism : caring for mum and dad / Kär contracts in Norway. Agreements made by men concerning women's work, ownership and lives / Working with custom. Promoting children's rights to livelihood by making de facto guardians responsible / Women's burden : women, HIV/AIDS and home-based care in Zimbabwe / Human rights encountering gendered land and water uses. Family gardens and the right to water in Mhondoro communal land / Making gender visible in law : Kwena women's access to power and resources / Following God's constitution. The gender dimensions in the Ogiek claim to Mau forest complex / Rural women's access to landed property. Unearthing the realities within an East African setting / Women's work, perceived contribution and access to land in India / Engendering the human rights protection of property rights : women's local land use in Tanzania / I can't go to school today / Where is the toilet? Getting down basics in accessing women's rights / From human development to human rights. A southern African perspective on women and teenage girls' right to reproductive choice / New fellow citizens : challenges and possibilities : implementing human rights among immigrants, the case of female circumcision in Norway / Interpretative strategies for women's rights in a plural legal framework. Exploring judicial and state responses to Hudood laws in Pakistan / The widows' and female child's portion. The twisted path to partial equality for widows and daughters under customary law in Zimbabwe / Reconceptualizing the role of legal information dissemination in the context of legal pluralism in African settings / Ann Stewart -- Tove M. Bolstad -- Henrietta Wolayo Ssemmanda -- Ellen Sithole -- Anne Hellum -- Anne Griffiths -- Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Jacinta Anyango Oduor -- Rie Odgaard and Agnete Weis Bentzon -- Reena Patel -- Ingunn Ikdahl -- Julie Stewart -- Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Anne Hellum and Anne Lene Staib Knudsen -- Gro Hillestad Thune -- Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Julie Stewart and Amy Tsanga -- Amy S. Tsanga.
"This book addresses a current dilemma in the operationalization of human rights norms at state, regional and international levels, namely, the apparent failure to deliver the projected human rights benefits and protections to individuals on the ground."--BOOK JACKET.
9781779220622 1779220626
2007380764
Women's rights--Africa, Eastern.
Women's rights--Africa, Southern.
Women--Social conditions.--Africa, Eastern
Women--Social conditions.--Africa, Southern
Women's rights.
Women--Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Africa, Eastern.
Africa, Southern.
Donation
HQ1236 / .H86
323.096