Access to safe birth control methods and knowledge about their effectivity and disadvantages are basic prerequisites for the liberation of women. But the propagation of contraceptive services in So…
In this study we have chosen to look at the application of parallel legal systems in terms of dealing with violence against women in just a limited number of communities, within the massive Oromo…
This book attempts to show that the teaching-learning process in higher education, and religion, taught and learned through non-formal and informal education (or the hidden curriculum), and other s…
There is rightly a huge global effort to enable women living with HIV to have long productive lives, through treatment access. However, many women living with HIV experience violence against women …
As stipulated by the CEDAW Committee, the right of access to justice for women is a fundamental element of the rule of law, which is essential to the realisation of women’s human rights everywher…
The problematic dialectic of tradition and modernization has recently become a central topic in the study of African history, culture and contemporaneity. Historian Iris Berger adds to these discus…
The case study is organized into chronologically-based categories of work based on the different phases of the reform process. It suggests that making the demand for women’s rights within high…
In July 1985, Nairobi hosted a meeting of over 14,000 women at the United Nations’ Third World Conference on Women.2 Domestic and international women’s rights activists held a concurrent meet…
This article discusses the ecological and climate crisis, as a critical dimension of the manifold threats facing the planet and most of its peoples today. We locate the crises in an economic system…
Over the last two decades the contributions and achievements as well as failures of women’s movements and women’s activism have been well documented in manuscripts that have specifically focu…