This paper uses micro data from recent labour force surveys collected in Cameroon and Mali to explore gender differentials in labour market outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of this c…
Why the Maputo Protocol? A key question posed by many stakeholders is why the Maputo Protocol in light of existing laws and human rights instruments at the international, regional and national leve…
The issue of women’s participation in all spheres of life has become a major developmental concern world-wide. Many debates on the above issue have highlighted women’s marginalization in all as…
AWDF awards grants to African women's organizations working in the following thematic areas: Women's Human Rights Economic Empowerment Political Participation Peace-Building Healt…
AWDF organized a one day workshop for grantees and partners working on HIV & AIDS issues on July 7, 2007 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. Kenya during the International Women’s Summ…
This article aims at applying some of the principles guiding Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to Helon Habila’s Oil On Water (2011). One of the major principles of Systemic Linguistics is that t…
This Special Issue is the result of a conference on Islamic Family Law that we organized in the Netherlands in 2013, entitled: Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe and the Muslim World – Legal and…
This Special Issue is the result of a conference on Islamic Family Law that we organized in the Netherlands in 2013, entitled: Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe and the Muslim World – Legal a…
Violence against women involves the physical and verbal (both subtle and overt) coercion of women of all age groups, ethnic/racial backgrounds, religious persuasions, and socio-economic background.…
In the opening part of this chapter, I explore the meaning of power (but would not lay claim to undertaking an exhaustive exploration of the meaning of the subject) and make a case for why women ne…