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Gender
Violence and Women's Human Rights in Africa: A Symposium
This
important document compiles the ideas and strategies put forth
by some of Africa's foremost women's human rights activists
at a symposium convened by the Center for Women's Global Leadership.
It presents a theoretical and strategic framework for addressing
women's human rights and includes articles on topics such
as: tools of suppression; culture as a human rights concern;
and intervention strategies. The contributors are activists
from a number of African countries: Asma Abdel Halim (Sudan),
Seble Dawit (Ethiopia/USA), Matlhogonolo Maboe (South Africa),
'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (Nigeria), Nahid Toubia (Sudan), and
Abena Busia (Ghana).
Center
for Women's Global Leadership, 1994; 42 pages. US$7
Table
of Contents
Preface
Foreword,
Abena P A Busia
Part
One: Invite Tyrants to Commit Suicide:
Gender Violence, Human Rights, and African Women in Contemporary
African Nation States, 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Part
Two: Women's Reproductive And Sexual Rights, Dr. Nahid
Toubia
Part
Three: Tools of Suppression, Asma Mohamed Abbel Halim
Part
Four: Strategies to Tackle Rape and Violence Against Women
in South Africa, Matlhogonolo Maboe
Part
Five: Culture as a Human Rights Concern:
Highlights for Action With the African Charter on Human and
Peoples' Rights, Seble Dawit, LLM
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