Human Rights and Personal Law: Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhoda Howard
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Personal Law

Human Rights and Personal Law: Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Rhoda Howard
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
The Family ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Personal Law ◽  
Female Genital

In this paper I will discuss women’s rights regarding marriage, the family, and genital operations in the context of internationally accepted views of the individual rights of women. I focus upon these particular areas partly because the issue of female genital operations in Africa has been the subject of much popular attention in the last three years, but mainly because, given that women’s biological reproductive roles are so much more central to their lives than are the equivalent roles for men, their rights in these areas profoundly affect their ability to exercise their rights in other areas, i.e. in the polity and in the economy. For data I use examples from several English-speaking sub-Saharan countries.

E-Government Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa

2014 ◽  
pp. 297-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Mutula ◽  
Gbolahan Olasina
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Implementation Approach ◽  
Sub Saharan

E-government if well implemented has the potential to reduce administrative bureaucracy and enhance development and service delivery. This chapter discusses strategies of e-government implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa and the implications for good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, accountability, integrity, and transparency. E-government in Sub-Saharan Africa is being undertaken in different administrative contexts and rationalities such as the need for reform, efficiency, and citizen-focus. An e-government implementation approach that facilitates and engenders the sharing of best practices, experiences, methods, and standards while reducing turnaround times and cost in project delivery would be desirable. This chapter is underpinned by UN e-government framework.

Accountability

2020 ◽  
pp. 258-286
Author(s):  
Aryeh Neier
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Truth Commissions ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
International Criminal Tribunals ◽  
Military Regimes ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
International Human ◽  
Sub Saharan

This chapter focuses on the major goal of the international human rights movement has been in securing accountability for grave abuses. It talks about “truth commissions” in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, several countries of Asia, Morocco, and Canada, which deals with abuses against the country's indigenous population. It also highlights the establishment of several international criminal tribunals in order to prosecute and punish those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The chapter explores accountability, which has become a central concern of the international human rights movement for the recognition or official acknowledgment of the suffering of victims of human rights abuses. It also analyzes the purpose of deniability, which made it possible for military regimes in that commit abuses to maintain a facadeof legality.

Monitoring Human Rights in Africa

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-510
Author(s):  
Richard Dicker
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Laws Of War ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
New Evidence

Since its founding in May 1988, Africa Watch has documented and reported on human rights abuses in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These findings are available in eight book-length reports and more than 70 newsletters, with new evidence available all the time on such topics as, for example, the suppression of information in the Sudan, violations of laws of war in Liberia, the devastating impact of the 15-year armed conflict in Angola, slavery in Mauritania, and interference with academic freedom in Zimbabwe.

Impact of globalization on human rights: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1453-1480
Author(s):  
Aman Takiyar ◽  
N.V.M. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the impact of globalization and its multiple dimensions on human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.Design/methodology/approachThe study extends the Poe and Tate (1994) model, which enumerates the various determinants of human rights. Ordered probit estimation is used to estimate the impact of globalization and its dimensions. For the purpose of empirical analysis, the period has been divided into three phases: short, medium and long term. This helps in understanding how the impact of the different dimensions of globalization has evolved over a period of time. Furthermore, analysis has been carried out to detect causality between human rights and globalization.FindingsAs per the results, overall globalization and social dimension of globalization do have a positive impact on human rights in long and medium term and, also, Granger-cause human rights. The political dimension of globalization has a positive relation with human rights, though there exists no causality between the two. On the other hand, the economic dimension of globalization fails to have a statistically significant impact on human rights. Impact of the social dimension of globalization dominates that of other dimensions of globalization.Originality/valueThis is one of the few studies that examine, in an empirical fashion, the impact of globalization on human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.

scholarly journals Advancing human rights in legally plural Africa: the role of development actors in the justice sector

Afrika Focus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Giselle Corradi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Local Justice ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Empirical Point

This dissertation examines the role of justice sector aid in sub-Saharan Africa regarding the relationship between human rights and local legal orders from a normative and empirical point of view. At the normative level, it explores how socio-legal theory on legal pluralism and human rights’ cross-contextual implementation may inform the practice of development actors in the justice sector. Based on case studies in Sierra Leone and Mozambique, the research applies this body of knowledge to the analysis of empirical data on development actors' policies and interventions. The conclusion argues that the following issues deserve particular attention: the adoption of a users' perspective regarding which local justice providers are targeted by policies and interventions, consideration of how different modes of dispute processing relate to the implementation of human rights, engagement with local knowledge and a critical approach to human rights cross-contextual application.

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