Protecting the human rights of sexual minorities in contemporary Africa
Author: Ivy Nyarango
Publisher: PULP
Published: 2017-05-12
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1920538607
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Human Rights and Homosexuality in Southern Africa
Author: Chris Dunton
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9789171064028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt 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.
World Report 2021
Author: Human Rights Watch
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 910
ISBN-13: 1644210290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa
Author: Lydia Boyd
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 029932740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent decades, a more formalized and forceful shift has emerged in the legislative realm when it comes to gender and sexual justice in Africa. This rigorous, timely volume brings together leading and rising scholars across disciplines to evaluate these ideological struggles and reconsider the modern history of human rights on the continent. Broad in geographic coverage and topical in scope, chapters investigate such subjects as marriage legislation in Mali, family violence experienced by West African refugees, sex education in Uganda, and statutes criminalizing homosexuality in Senegal. These case studies highlight the nuances and contradictions in the varied ways key actors make arguments for or against rights. They also explore how individual countries draft and implement laws that attempt to address the underlying problems. Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa details how legal efforts in the continent can often be moralizing enterprises, illuminating how these processes are closely tied to notions of ethics, personhood, and citizenship. The contributors provide new appraisals of recent events, with fresh arguments about the relationships between local and global fights for rights. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scholars in African studies, anthropology, history, and gender studies.
Human Rights in Africa
Author: Eunice N. Sahle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1137519150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection explores key human rights themes and situates them in the context of developments on the African continent. It examines critical debates in human rights bringing together conceptually and empirically rich contributions from leading thinkers in human rights and African studies. Drawing on scholarly insights from the fields of constitutional law, human rights, development, feminist studies, public health, and media studies, the volume contributes to scholarly debates on constitutionalism, the right to water, securitization of development, environmental and transitional justice, sexual rights, conflict and gender-based violence, the right to development, and China’s deepening role in Africa. Consequently, it makes an important scholarly intervention on timely issues pertaining to the African continent and beyond.
Imperialism and Human Rights
Author: Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008-01-03
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0791480925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing that, in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of "civilization" and "modernity," became an important part of the discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire.
Sexuality, Health and Human Rights
Author: Sonia Corrêa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-08-18
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1134266677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSexuality, Health and Human Rights surveys the rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in the social, cultural, political and economic domains and their impact on sexuality, health and human rights.
Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa
Author: Ebenezer Durojaye
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1000401340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for instance in poor maternity services, living with HIV, and discrimination on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation or identity. Covering topics such as abortion, gender identity, adolescent sexuality and homosexuality, the chapters in this book discuss the impact of culture, morality and social beliefs on the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights across the continent, particularly in relation to vulnerable and marginalized groups. The book also explores the role of litigation, national human rights institutions and regional human rights bodies in advancing the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region. Throughout, the contributions highlight the relevance of a rights-based framework in addressing topical and contentious issues on sexual and reproductive health and rights within Sub-Saharan Africa. This book will be of interest to researchers of sexuality, civil rights and health in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003175049, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
More Than a Name
Author: Commission internationale pour les droits des gais et des lesbiennes
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781564322869
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination
Author: Holning Lau
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-09-24
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9004345493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Holning Lau offers an incisive review of the conceptual questions that arise as legal systems around the world grapple with whether and how to protect people against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.
