Topic
Maputo Protocol
About: Maputo Protocol is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 38 publications have been published within this topic receiving 226 citations. The topic is also known as: The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Papers
1 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, Anne Hellum and Henriette Sinding Aasen discuss the potential added value of the CEDAW: Socio-economic Rights: 7. Engendering socio-economic rights Sandra Fredman 8. 'Women's rights are human rights!' The practice of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social, Social and Cultural Rights Fleur van Leeuwen 9. Property and security: articulating women's rights to their homes Ingunn Ikdahl 10.
Abstract: Introduction Anne Hellum and Henriette Sinding Aasen Part I. Potential Added Value of the CEDAW: 1. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women Andrew Byrnes 2. The United Nations Working Group on the Issue of Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice Fareda Banda 3. CEDAW: a holistic approach to women's equality and freedom Rikki Holtmaat 4. CEDAW as a legal framework for transnational discourses on gender stereotyping Simone Cusack 5. From CEDAW to the American Convention: elucidation of women's right to a life's project and protection of maternal identity within inter-American human rights jurisprudence Cecilia Bailliet 6. Pulling apart? Treatment of pluralism in CEDAW and in Maputo protocol Celestine Nyamu Musembi Part II. Actual Added Value of the CEDAW: Socio-Economic Rights: 7. Engendering socio-economic rights Sandra Fredman 8. 'Women's rights are human rights!' The practice of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Fleur van Leeuwen 9. Property and security: articulating women's rights to their homes Ingunn Ikdahl 10. Maternal mortality and women's right to health Henriette Sinding Aasen Part III. The CEDAW in National Law: 11. The implementation of the CEDAW Convention in Australia: success, trials, tribulations and continuing struggle Andrew Byrnes 12. The Canadian experience with the CEDAW: all women's rights are human rights - a case of treaties synergy Lucie Lamarche 13. India's CEDAW story Madhu Mehra 14. Judicial education on the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Nepal Kabita Pandey 15. From ratification to implementation: 'domesticating' CEDAW in state, government and society. A case study of Pakistan Shaheen Sardar Ali 16. Zimbabwe and CEDAW compliance: pursuing women's equality in fits and starts Choice Damiso and Julie Stewart 17. The CEDAW after all these years: firmly rooted in the Dutch clay? Marjolein van den Brink 18. CEDAW in the UK Sandra Fredman 19. Domestication of the CEDAW in France: from paradoxes to ambivalences and back again Helene Ruiz Fabri and Andrea Hamann 20. Rise and fall of the CEDAW in Finland: time to reclaim its impetus Kevat Nousiainen and Merja Pentikainen 21. Making space and giving voice: CEDAW in Norwegian law Anne Hellum Conclusions Anne Hellum and Henriette Sinding Aasen.
58 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how women have seized on the opportunities available to them to drive this advocacy forward: including the establishment of an international framework on women, peace, and security that includes United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and other international agreements and commitments to involving women in post-conflict peace-building.
Abstract: Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of the conflict experience also provides an opportunity for women to come together with a common agenda. In some contexts, these changes have led women to become activists, advocating for peace and long-term transformation in their societies. This article explores how women have seized on the opportunities available to them to drive this advocacy forward: including the establishment of an international framework on women, peace, and security that includes United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and other international agreements and commitments to involving women in post-conflict peace-building. The article is based on on-the-ground research and ...
52 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored violence against women in the context of culture, theory of fear of violence and literature on spaces perceived to be'safe' or 'dangerous' by women victims/survivors of violence in Ethiopia.
Abstract: Investigating the experience of violence against women and exploring women's coping strategies is a crucial component of re-tailoring the provision of services for victims/survivors. This article explores violence against women in the context of culture, theory of fear of violence and literature on spaces perceived to be 'safe' or 'dangerous' by women victims/survivors of violence in Ethiopia. To collect the relevant data, we conducted 14 semi-structured interviews with Ethiopian women who are victims/survivors of violence and three interviews with gender experts in Ethiopia. Our group of women suffer in 'silence' and confide only in friends and relatives. They did not resort to institutional support due to lack of awareness and general societal disapproval of such measures. This contrasts with claims by experts that the needs of these women are addressed using an institutional approach. Culture, migration status and lack of negotiating power in places of work are key factors when considering violence. The majority of the respondents in this study occupy both public and private spaces such as bars and homes and have experienced violence in those spaces. The social relations and subsequent offences they endured do not make spaces such as these safe. Education of both sexes, creation of awareness, sustainable resource allocation to support victims/survivors, ratification of the Maputo protocol and effective law enforcement institutions are some of the practical strategies we propose to mitigate the incidence of violence in Ethiopia. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.
51 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the challenges of advocating for individual women's rights in African states and argue that African women's issues, considered in the context of Africa's post-colonial environment, highlight the manner in which global economic inequalities reinforce oppressive cultural customs that marginalise women and contribute to rights violations.
Abstract: Drawing on findings from field research in Ghana, analyses of the 2003 Maputo Protocol on women's rights in Africa and other human rights instruments, this article discusses the challenges of advocating for individual women's rights in African states. The article examines the strategies women's rights advocates employ in navigating cultural hindrances to women's rights and negotiating women's individual rights within Ghana's socio-cultural and political terrain. It argues that advocates must advance a type of ‘specific relativism’ that is based on a fine balance between universalist and cultural relativist claims within the human rights discourse. Further, it argues that African women's rights issues, considered in the context of Africa's post-colonial environment, highlight the manner in which global economic inequalities reinforce oppressive cultural customs that marginalise women and contribute to rights violations. Therefore, women's advocates must also take into account the global economic system whe...
21 citations
Dissertation•
1 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a list of acronyms and a table of contents for each of them, with a discussion of their use in this paper. But they do not mention any references.
Abstract: ................................................................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................. v List of acronyms .................................................................................................................................... vi Table of contents .................................................................................................................................... xi CHAPTER ONE ................................................................................................................................... 1 BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................................... 1 1.
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