Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I : Legislation, Limitations and Culture
This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts. As a global and long-standing issue, violence against women is gaining public visibility across the African continent with some states announcing a national c...
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| Language: | Anglais |
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| Series: | Sustainable Development Goals Series
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I, Texte imprimé, 9783030759483 • Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I, Texte imprimé, 9783030759506 • Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I, Texte imprimé, 9783030759513 |
Table of Contents:
- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
- 1. Chapter One: Introduction (Emma Charlene Lubaale and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz)
- 2. Chapter Two: Violence against women in Africa: A human rights violation necessitating criminal accountability (Emma Charlene Lubaale and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz).-SECTION TWO: LEGISLATION AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- 3. Chapter three: Addressing gender-based violence epidemic through criminal justice: A case study of South Africa and the DRC (Mafuku Tholaine Matadi and Lizelle Ramaccio Calvino)
- 4. Chapter four: Access to justice for survivors of violence: A case study of the girl child in Mauritius (Shivani Georgijevic and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz)
- 5. Chapter five: Police capacity building in dealing with domestic violence cases in South Africa: An entry point to women s access to justice (Mothibi Kholofelo A and Tirivangasi Happy Mathew)
- 6. Chapter six: Access to Justice for sexual violence against women: A socio-legal analysis of case reporting in Kenya (Nelly Warega)
- SECTION THREE: LIMITATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- 7. Chapter seven: Sex trafficking as a form of gender-based violence against women: Lessons from South Africa and Uganda (Annette Lansink and Zahara Nampewo)
- 8. Chapter eight: Criminal accountability for gender-based violence in North Africa: Beyond legal reforms (Yousra Abourabi and Emma Charlene Lubaale)
- 9. Chapter nine: The right to social security as a prerequisite to access to justice for survivors of sexual violence in Zimbabwe (Untalimile Crystal Mokoena)
- 10. Chapter ten: Roots Revisited: Barriers to justice for survivors of female genital mutilation in the Gambia (Raeesa Rajmohamed)
- 11. Chapter eleven: Access to justice by victims of violence against women and girls in Tanzania: A social legal perspective (Cecilia Ngaiza and Asina A. Omari).