The impact of the Maputo Protocol in selected African states
The impact of the Maputo Protocol in selected African states

Author: Susan Mutambasere

Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 339

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This book assesses the impact and effectiveness of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) in 16 state parties. These countries are: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eswatini, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Each of the chapters traces the impact that the Protocol has had on the policies, laws, court decisions, civil society activism, and legal education in the particular state. Each chapter also discusses the relationship of the state with the African human rights mechanisms. The book is an update of two prior volumes of essays, titled The impact of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in selected African states, published by PULP in 2012 and 2016, and edited by the Centre for Human Rights, Universityof Pretoria (Centre) and Victor Ayeni, respectively. The third edition, focused more narrowly on the Maputo Protocol, appears as the continent marks 20 years since the adoption of the Protocol on 11 July 2003. By 11 July 2023, 54 out of 55 African Union member states (with the exception of Morocco) have become party to the African Charter, and 44 of them have accepted the Maputo Protocol. The book is edited by and contains several chapters by alumni of the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa programme of the Centre. The Centre intends to use this research as the basis for a continuously updated database on the impact of the African Charter and Maputo Protocol.

Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region
Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region

Author: Andrew Morrison

Publisher:

Published: 2013

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The authors present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special emphasis on good practice interventions to prevent GBV or offer services to its survivors or perpetrators. Intimate partner violence and sexual coercion are the most common forms of GBV, and these are the types of GBV that they analyze. GBV has serious consequences for women's health and well-being, ranging from fatal outcomes, such as homicide, suicide, and AIDS-related deaths, to nonfatal outcomes, such as physical injuries, chronic pain syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, complications during pregnancy, miscarriage, and low birth-weight of children. GBV also poses significant costs for the economies of developing countries, including lower worker productivity and incomes, and lower rates of accumulation of human and social capital. The authors examine good practice approaches in justice, health, education, and multisectoral approaches. In each sector, they identify good practices for: (1) law and policies; (2) institutional reforms; (3) community-level interventions; and (4) individual behavior change strategies.

Gender Matters
Gender Matters

Author: Dennis van der Veur

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9789287163936

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"'Gender Matters' is a manual aimed to assist educators and youth leaders work on issues of gender and gender-based violence with young people. This publication presents theoretical information, methods and resources for education and training activities, along with concrete exercises that users can put into practice in their daily work. Violence is a serious issue which directly affects the lives of many young people. It often results in lasting damage to their well-being and integrity, putting even their lives at risk. Gender-based violence, including violence against women, remains a key human rights challenge in contemporary Europe and in the world. Working with young people on human rights education is one way of preventing gender-based violence from occurring. By raising awareness on why and how it manifests and exploring its impact on people and in society, gender-based violence will no longer go undetected. Gender really does matter, to women, to men, to young people - to all of us. This manual serves to explore these human rights issues and act upon them."--Book jacket.

Profiling Domestic Violence
Profiling Domestic Violence

Author: Sunita Kishor

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 152

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"This study uses household and individual-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program to examine the prevalence and correlates of domestic violence and the health consequences of domestic violence for women and their children. Nationally representative data from nine countries - Cambodia (2000), Colombia (2000), the Dominican Republic (2002), Egypt (1995), Haiti (2000), India (1998-1999), Nicaragua (1998), Peru (2000), and Zambia (2001-2002) - are analyzed within a comparative framework to provide a multifaceted analysis of the phenomenon of domestic violence"--P. xv.

Human Rights and Citizenship Education
Human Rights and Citizenship Education

Author: Dina Kiwan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1317654935

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This book considers the philosophical, sociological and legal implications of the distinction between universal human rights accorded to all because of their membership of the human species, and the more particularistic ‘citizenship’ rights, accorded to those who are members of a political community. Contributions come from a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields including education, law and political philosophy, as well as from practitioner perspectives. Contributions address the three themes of firstly whether human rights and citizenship are complementary or competing conceptions, secondly the justifications for human rights, and thirdly human rights and citizenship in different cultural contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Education.

Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams
Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams

Author: Jeanne Ward

Publisher: UN

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 276

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This publication gives an insight into the exploitation and violence that affects the everyday lives of women and girls around the world by examining different types of violence through the cycle of women's lives including discrimination at birth and at school, child prostitution and pornography, child marriage, domestic violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, servitude and abusive cultural practices. It contains a CD-ROM with training and advocacy material, including a documentary film 'Our bodies, their battleground'. This publication is part of the long-term commitment of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Integrated Regional Information Network to promote human rights and to raise awareness of the gender-based violence which exists in all societies.

Fostering Skills in Cameroon
Fostering Skills in Cameroon

Author: Shobhana Sosale

Publisher: Directions in Development

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781464807626

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Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Introduction and background -- The macro aggregation-accumulation model -- Enterprises and workforce -- Key economic sectors for jobs, value addition, competitiveness, and growth -- Skills accumulation and the stock and flow of workforce -- Assessing the workforce development system -- Prospects, conclusions and policy recommendations -- List of boxes -- List of tables -- List of figures