Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of history and legal systems: Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda / Anne Daugherty Leiter -- Women's right to participate in public life -- Legal strategies to increase Ugandan women's access to higher education / Dora Kanabahita Byamukama -- Women and higher education in Tanzania / Mande Limbu -- Implementation of affirmative action in Tanzania's Parliament: an assessment of the reserved seats for Women / Jane Magigita -- One step forward, two steps back: the women's movement and law reform in Uganda from 1985-2000 / Jacqueline Asiimwe -- Judicial activism and gender rights in Tanzania: the task ahead / Regina M. Rweyemamu -- Violence Against Women -- Trikosi: Twentieth century female bondage: a Ghanaian case study / Hilary Amesika Gbedemah -- The plight of refugee women: protection from sexual violence in refugee camps-a case study of Tanzania / Hadija Ally -- Sexual violence against women in Tanzania: a case study on the 1998 Sexual Offenses (Special Provision) Act No. 4 / Scolastica Jullu -- Domestic violence: strategies for combating wife battery in Uganda / Kulsum Wakabi -- Marital rape as a form of domestic violence and the need for law reform in Ghana / Beatrice Akua Abrekna Duncan -- Attitudes towards victims of rape that affect the reporting, prosecutions and convictions for rape: the need for law reform in Ghana / Sheila N.Y. Gyimah -- Female genital mutilation: tradition or torture? / Fitnat N-A. Adjetey -- Women's rights within the family -- Polygamy, equality and the gender debate: a comparative study of Ghana and the United States / Angela Dwamena-Aboagye -- Discrimination in the traditional marriage and divorce system in Ghana: looking at the problem from a human rights perspective / Bernice Sam -- Comparative study of the status of women under the law of divorce and of their economic status in Uganda, Britain and Bangladesh / Regina Lule Mutyaba -- Rethinking property: women and matrimonial property rights in Tanzania / Salma Maulidi -- Property in marriage relations-its legal implications for women in Uganda / Margaret C. Oguli Oumo -- Impact of customary inheritance law on the status of widows and daughters in Tanzania: a challenge to human rights activists / Monica E. Magoke-Mhoja -- Reproductive health, women's subordination and HIV/AIDS -- Religious and cultural rights: reclaiming the African woman's individuality- the struggle between women's reproductive autonomy and African society and culture/ Fitnat N-A. Adjetey -- Women and HIV/AIDS in Uganda / Emma Ssali Namuli -- Women's rights and the AIDS epidemic in Tanzania / Maria Tungaraza -- Women's economic empowerment -- Women and employment discrimination in Uganda's formal sector: facing challenges and forging change / Evelyn Nassuna -- Women's access to and control over land in Uganda: a tool for economic empowerment / Naome Kabanda -- Ghanaian women, the law and economic power / Gloria Ofori-Baodu -- Shattering the glass ceiling: what women in Uganda need to make it to the top / Harriet Diana Musoke -- Law reform and effective implementation as the means to economically empower the Ugandan woman / Sarah B. Lubega -- National human rights commissions: Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania / Vanessa Brocato.

"Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women's rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. It describes - in their own words - the challenges these activists face in implementing international human rights norms at the local and national levels."--BOOK JACKET.