Twenty Years of Triumph, Trial and Tribulation: Reflections on the Mechanism of the African Commission’s Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Kennedy Kariseb
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Special Rapporteur ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
The Past ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
African Commission

Abstract On the occasion of its 25th Ordinary Session held in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 26 April to 5 May 1999, the African Commission adopted resolution ACHPR/res.38 (XXV) 99 on the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (SRRWA), retrospectively with the appointment taking effect from 31 October 1998. This means that the mechanism of the SRRWA is roughly making twenty years since its initial inception. Coming of age and time, the twenty years of existence of the mechanism of the SRRWA makes it not only one of the oldest (and perhaps most successful) mechanisms of the African Commission; but one that has been the subject of tremendous triumph, trial and tribulation. Over the past two decades, the mechanism has been a product of both progression and regression. By and large the mechanism of the SRRWA has played an appreciable role in the advancement of women’s rights on the African continent. This article aims at taking stock of the achievements and failures of the 20 years of the work of the SRRWA. Although taking pride in the achievements of the mechanism, this article argues for incremental reforms within the mechanism, including the refining of the terms of reference of the mandate; the need for closer cooperation with global and regional systems mechanisms, women at grassroots including women’s rights movements, and mutual support from civil society organisations.

Constructing Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally L. Kitch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Urban Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Basic Definition ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
International Understanding ◽  
Social Stratum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter provides a detailed look at women's rights in Afghanistan. The basic definition of women's rights has varied in Afghanistan according to region, social stratum, time, and educational levels, and it has rarely if ever been consistent across the country at any given moment. In the past few decades at least, many educated urban women (and some men) have understood the concept of women's rights according to two major referents. One is Islam, represented by the Holy Qur'an and hadith, understood and interpreted by educated people like Marzia and Jamila. The second referent for this group is the international understanding of human rights and the rights to which all the world's women are presumably entitled.

scholarly journals A Discursive Spectrum: The Narrative of Kenya’s “Neglected” Boy Child

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-306
Author(s):  
Isabel Pike
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Policy Attention

In this article, I examine a narrative that on the surface could be backlash to gender equality efforts: that after years of policy attention to girls, Kenya’s “boy child” has been neglected. Through a content analysis of Kenyan online newspaper texts spanning the past two decades, I chart the evolution of this discourse, finding that it was present as early as 2000, intensified around 2010, and began to produce concrete actions around 2013. I argue that the narrative is a reaction to expanded women’s rights, but not always in the sense of negative backlash. Some boy child claims-makers were indeed concerned with a decline in men’s power. However, others, mostly women, used the boy child narrative to redirect attention to issues that profoundly affect the well-being of women such as violence and the struggle to find a partner. These results point to the value of a discursive spectrum approach for analysis of potential backlash to gender equality as well as discussions around policy attention to boys and men.

scholarly journals Understanding the Communication Strategy of Women's Rights Protection in the Digital Era through Website

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Rahma Santhi Zinaida ◽  
Siti Lady Havivi
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Subject

<em>The National Commission on Violence Against Women in Indonesia through their website, release that there are three women who become victims of sexual violence every two hours. Kalyanamitra was chosen as the subject of the study because there are not many NGO’s committed in protecting women's rights in Indonesia that have survived for more than 33 years. This study aims to explain how the communication strategy has been done in this organization through their official website. The important of doing this study is that can inspire other NGO’s to optimize the use of online media. The theories used in this study are Media Rich Theory (MRT). This study use interpretative paradigm with the type of research is qualitative descriptive. Data were collected by using content analysis from website https://www.kalyanamitra.or.id/#. As the result, Kalyanamitra has done effective communication strategy by using techniques such as canalizing, informative, persuasive, and also educative.</em>

scholarly journals Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject / Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform

1970 ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
Max Weiss ◽  
Najla Hamadeh
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Critical Philosophy ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Family Law

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist SubjectAs interest continues to grow in what is occasionally called the global resurgence of religion, the importance of understanding and explaining the Islamic revival (al-sahwa al-islamiyya) has never been greater. Indeed, no longer the exclusive domain of scholars, students, and policymakers working in and around the Islamic world, the politics and practices of Islamism are now, suddenly,issues that matter to all. It is in this connection that Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety has already proved to stand as one of the most meaningful contributions to the field of Islamic studies over the past five years, with striking resonance across such disciplines as cultural anthropology, women’s studies, religion, and critical philosophy. Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on ReformRecently, Islam in general, and Islamic family law in particular, have been the object of much interest and research. The particular focus on family law is justified not only by the importance of families, the building blocks that constitute society and mold individuals, but also by the fact that Islamic family law is often the most resistant to change, as it is the hardest to disentangle from religious authority.

An investigation into social studies curriculum and course books in the context of women's and children's rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Erol ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Social

Human rights are necessary and compulsory for all people irrespective of language, religion, race, gender or sect. Learning about these rights begins within family and continues in school formally. Human rights education is necessary for values of human rights to pass from theory to practice. The rights given to people or groups with certain characteristics only in the past are today offered on the basis of equality and freedom in the contemporary society. Among those groups, children and women who obtained their rights later than others are of sensitive importance. This study investigated the extent to which children’s and women’s rights are included in the social sciences curriculum and social sciences course books. Among qualitative research methods, the document analysis was used in the study. The results of study showed that children's and women's rights are not included in social sciences course and curriculum at a desired level, the values that can be associated with human rights are included, yet these values are not distributed in a balanced way across grades. Learning outcomes regarding human rights in the curriculum of social sciences can be increased. The contents about children's and women's rights can be increased. Also, the current and controversial topics regarding children's and women's rights can be added in the course books.

scholarly journals Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei’s Contribution to the Discourse of Women’s Rights

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
English Language ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Independent Basis ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Blood Money ◽  
Over Time

Ayatollah Yusef Sanei was a prominent contemporary Shia scholar whose particular methodological approach led him to issue some of the most progressive Shia fatwas on the subject of women’s rights. However, the ideas he expressed in the last decades of his life have scarcely been addressed in the English language scholarship. This article explores Sanei’s broader jurisprudential approach and how he applied it to analyzing and often challenging traditional Shia rulings related to gender issues. The article first differentiates Sanei’s approach towards jurisprudence from established methodologies, particularly in relation to his consideration of the Sunna as secondary to the Qurʾān, his rejection of the practice of using consensus as an independent basis of legal rulings, his idea that Sharia rulings may change over time, and his strong emphasis on the Qurʾān’s messages of justice and human dignity. The article illuminates how this combination led Sanei to challenge traditional ideas about men’s authority over women, a fixed socio-political role for women, and men’s superiority in the areas of divorce rights, testimony and worth in blood money (dīya), while concurring with earlier scholars on the unequal division of inheritance. Notwithstanding this latter exception, the article demonstrates that Sanei drew upon jurisprudential approaches in arguing in favor of equality between men and women in many areas.

DIALECTS OF WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITRY OF THEARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2005

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Abu-Lughod
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Universal Human Rights

The ethical and political dilemmas posed by the construction and international circulation of discourses on women's rights in the Middle East are formidable. The plight of “Muslim women” has long occupied a special place in the Western political imagination, whether in colonial officials' dedication to saving them from barbaric practices or development projects devoted to empowering them. In the past fifteen years or so, through a series of international conferences and the efforts of feminist activists, women's rights have come to be framed successfully as universal human rights. Building on the U.N. conferences on women that started in 1975 and led to other initiatives, the appropriate arena of women's rights work has been redefined from the national to the international.

scholarly journals КЛАССИФИКАЦИЯ И ТЕНДЕНЦИИ РАЗВИТИЯ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ ДОКУМЕНТОВ В СФЕРЕ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ И ЗАЩИТЫ ПРАВ ЖЕНЩИН

World Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (8(48)) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Фируза Хамдамова
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Geographical Scope

The article is devoted to the classification of international documents in the field of ensuring and protecting the rights of women. The author systematizes them for several reasons, namely: depending on the subject who accepted the document, according to its legal nature, on the range of issues regulated by the document, its geographical scope. The author also raises the question of the reasons for the ineffectiveness of some documents on women's rights, in particular, the issue of reservations and cultural relativism.Thus, today there is a huge array of international documents on the rights of women, which are a fairly solid legal basis for effectively ensuring the rights of women. These documents are adopted in various forms - in the form of declarations, recommendations, conventions and programs or strategies of actions, that is, in the form of documents of a mandatory or recommendatory nature. An analysis of their content made it possible to highlight the most priority areas of international legal cooperation in the field of ensuring the rights of women, namely, maternity protection, ensuring equality in the family and the world of work, and protecting women from violence. More and more documents are being adopted in order to protect vulnerable layers of women facing multiple discrimination. The adoption of documents on the protection of the most vulnerable categories of women, that is, women exposed to multiple discrimination, is one of the trends in the development of international legal standards on women's rights.

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