LGBT Challenging and Reproducing Sexual Hegemonies: Stories from the Kenyan L…
LGBT studies in Kenya are unpopular since they are considered ‘uncomfortable territory’. This paper covers stories of people in samesex relationships against a backdrop of homophobia in Kenya. …
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Resources and resourcefulness: Gender, Human Rights and Resilience Inartisana…
The research in this chapter was framed by questions such as: Do men and women face similar difficulties when seeking to gain employment in mining? Are they afforded similar opportunities once t…
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Circumventing obstacles to the implementation of recommendations by the Afric…
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights was inaugurated on 2 November 1987, with a mandate to promote and protect human rights in Africa. The commemoration of its thirtieth annivers…
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AGACIRO: A Landscape Analysis of the Rights of Sex Workers and LGBT Communiti…
Culture, tradition and Christianity are deeply rooted in the collective consciousness in Rwanda. Religious and rigid conceptualization of culture influences public opinions and has consequently led…
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Legal Literacy as Integral to Rural Women's Land Rights: The Case of WiLDAF
Available statistics indicates that, women form about 35.1% of the agricultural work force in Ghana, and account for 70% of production of subsistence crops. Also, about 90% of the labour force in t…
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Building Strong Organisations For Women's Rights In Africa, 2011 Annual Report
AWDF has been a group that has stood by women peace and security network. The key aspects of AWDF are grant-making, partnership, and outreached, has build AWDF as a financial sustainable feminist i…
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Imagining and Rebuilding Movements: Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS in West Africa
Between May 13-16, 2008 ActionAid International (AAI) and African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) hosted women living with HIV/AIDS and other activists from 7 countries in West Africa (Liberia, Nig…
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Disability Rights Activism in Kenya, 1959-1964: History from Below
This article examines the early history of disability rights activism in Kenya. The transitional years from colonialism to independence were a period of great expectations. For persons with disabil…
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Protecting Adolescent Girls with intellectual Disabilities from Involuntary S…
Adolescent girls with intellectual disabilities are highly susceptible to involuntary sterilisation in Nigeria. Existing Nigerian laws contain no provisions expressly prohibiting involuntary steril…
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Birth Control, Contraception and Women's Rights in SA: A Cape Town Case Study
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…
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