Structure, Empowerment and the Liberalization of Cross-National Abortion Rights
Economic, cultural, and political opportunity structures have been separately shown to facilitate and constrain abortion rights. We examine two central and related questions: First, which factors…
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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination agai…
The States Parties to the present Protocol, Noting that the Charter of the United Nations reaffirms faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal …
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Violation of Women's Human Rights in Nigeria (1966-1999)
In this report, the recognition given to the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…
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Rights before profit: Recommendations on corporate accountability from the co…
The private sector can play an important role in contributing new resources to achieving sustainable development and the post-2015 agenda. However, without clear lines of accountability there is an…
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Re-righting the sexual body
This article explores the concept of “sexual rights” and what this means in the context of state-sponsored and publicly supported homophobia across the African continent. It explores the grow…
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Forced to Flee: Voices of Congolese Women Refugees in Uganda
This report presents the voices and perspective of women refugees in two refugee centers of Bubukwanga Refugee Reception Center and Kyangwali Resettlement Center in western Uganda. The report d…
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Grants Awarded Nigeria 2001 - 2010
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…
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Making Gender-Just Remedy and Reparation Possible: Upholding the Rights of Wo…
Victims of serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law have a clearly established right to remedy and reparation. This right must apply without discrimin…
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Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective (Why MES…
The current global economic crisis is evidence that the neo-liberal economic policies that have been followed for almost three decades have not worked. The devastation that the crisis has already w…
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Seeking the protection of LGBTI1 rights at the African Commission on Human an…
Over the past four years there has been a steadily growing movement of organising for the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights at the African Commission o…
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