Sexual Harassment Law And Human Rights In Africa
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| Author | : Ebenezer Durojaye |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2023-07-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 303132367X |
This book delves into the endemic and pervasive issue of sexual harassment in Africa, examining it as a gendered expression of power and a gross violation of human rights. It explores sexual harassment in various sectors, including domestic work, academia, and the informal economy, across a range of African countries. The book also highlights the sexual harassment experienced by vulnerable populations, such as internally displaced people, people with disabilities, and women and girls traveling by air. With a keen focus on the intersection of law, feminism, and human rights, the book analyzes the role of the courts and national human rights institutions in addressing sexual harassment, drawing lessons from other jurisdictions. This book is a must-read for researchers, policymakers, and civil society organizations interested in gender power relations and women‘s rights in Africa and beyond.
| Author | : Ellen Pinkos Cobb |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2019-12-06 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0429513631 |
As the #MeToo movement has become an increasingly global and significant workplace matter, a timely resource compiling must-know international workplace sexual harassment laws for the multinational employer is clearly needed. This book provides a comprehensive compilation of global sexual harassment laws, clearly necessary in this climate but not currently existing until now. It presents legislation addressing workplace sexual harassment in over 50 countries in the European Region, Asia Pacific, Americas, and the Middle East and Africa. Within each region, the laws of individual countries are set forth, as well as some cultural context and recent developments to indicate present and future trends in workplace sexual harassment regulation. Written in clear, plain English for anyone without a legal background to understand, this book is essential reading and a key resource for employment and business attorneys, global employers, managers, human resources professionals, and occupational health and safety professionals. Academics, practitioners, union members, employees, NGOs, and those in the human rights field will also benefit from this timely resource.
| Author | : World Health Organization |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 2015-06-17 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9789241564984 |
This report demonstrates the relationship between sexual health, human rights and the law. Drawing from a review of public health evidence and extensive research into human rights law at international, regional and national levels, the report shows how states in different parts of the world can and do support sexual health through legal and other mechanisms that are consistent with human rights standards and their own human rights obligations.
| Author | : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021-10-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9783030280987 |
This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.
| Author | : Nelien Haspels |
| Publisher | : International Labour Office |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
The reasons for eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace are thus both human and economic. This book is intended to help show how attitudical changes in society at large, legislation and appropriate workplace training, information and management can all contribute to overcome the incidence of sexual harassment. It also reflects a great diversity of opinion and approach to the issues involved with sexual harassment, it is all the more striking that such unequivocal and committed agreement is emerging worldwide on basis points such as: (a) no woman or man of any age should have to tolerare such conduct; (b) every employer and worker should take appropriate measures aimed at preventing and eliminating sexual harassment; and (c) it is in both the social and economic interests of society as a whole to suppress such behaviour.
| Author | : Chris Dunton |
| Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9789171064028 |
At the 1995 Zimbabwe International Bookfair the organisation of Gays and Lesbians in Zimbabwe was prevented from taking part. This opened up an unprecedented debate in southern Africa, which is conveyed in this report, together with a survey of African views on homosexuality, a global overview on homosexuality and the law, and an address list of human rights organizations and organi-zations working for gay and lesbian rights. A first-hand report and analysis of the new book fair drama in Harare 1996 is included in the new edition.
| Author | : Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2024-03-19 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1040000843 |
Written by a team of experts from legal, forensic, and policy backgrounds, this book presents new research into sexual violence and harassment across Africa. This first of it's kind book foregrounds the work of African scholars and presents careful research analysis and case studies that consider sexual harassment from legal, socio-economic, and cultural realities. It highlights the importance of laws around sexual harassment in Africa, the intersectional challenges it poses to women in the workplace, and the role of the feminist movement in Africa to hold perpetrators accountable and give voice to survivors of sexual harassment. The book forms part of a broader African-driven research initiative on sexual harassment and the law and is written in partnership with the Africa End Sexual Harassment Initiative (AESHI). It also explores the need to focus on best-practice benchmarks for Africa and also learning from developments in Africa. Timely and relevant, the book will be of great interest to legal and policy academic scholars, professionals, and activists working in the fields of gender policy, forensic psychology, and NGOs. It will also be useful reading for postgraduate students of law, gender studies, political science, and African studies.
| Author | : Fareda Banda |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2005-10-04 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1847311830 |
Africa, with its mix of statute, custom and religion is at the centre of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations. This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its impact on the cultural relativism debate within human rights. It is therefore important to examine critically the role of law, broadly constructed, in African societies. The book focuses on women's experiences in the family. This is because the lives of women continue to be lived out largely in the private domain, where the right to privacy is used to conceal unequal treatment of women which is justified by invoking 'custom' and 'tradition'. The book shows how law and its interpretation is used to disenfranchise women, resulting in their being deprived of land and other property which they may have helped to accumulate. It also considers issues of violence within the home, reproductive rights and examines the issue of female genital cutting. The role of women in development is explored as is their participation in politics and the NGO sector. A major theme of the book is a consideration of the linkages of constitutional and international human rights norms with local values. This is done using feminist tools of analysis. The book considers the provisions of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women which was adopted by the African Union in July 2003.
| Author | : Frans Viljoen |
| Publisher | : Pretoria University Law Press |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2023-08-28 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
The first in a series of PULP commentaries on African human rights law, under the series title: PULP Commentaries on African human rights law Since its adoption on 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) has become a landmark on the African human rights landscape. It has steadily gained prominence as a trail-blazing instrument, responsive to the diverse realities of women on the African continent. This comprehensive Commentary on the Maputo Protocol, the first of its kind, provides systematic analysis of each article of the Protocol, delving into the drafting history, and elaborating on relevant key concepts and normative standards. This Commentary aims to be a ‘one-stop-shop’ for anyone interested in the Maputo Protocol, such as researchers, teachers, students, practitioners, policymakers and activists.
| Author | : Commission internationale pour les droits des gais et des lesbiennes |
| Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
| ISBN | : 9781564322869 |
