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Title:Women's Rights as Human Rights: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF)
Author:Hodgson, Dorothy L.ISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:49
Issue:2
Period:Summer
Pages:3-26
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:human rights
women's rights
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Development and Technology
Women's Issues
Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4187496
Abstract:In recent years, 'women's rights as human rights' has emerged as a new transnational approach to demanding women's empowerment. This article explores the advantages and limitations of such an approach to women's activism in Africa through a case study of Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), a multinational African NGO that has been on the forefront of using 'women's rights as human rights' to educate women throughout the continent about their legal rights, lobby for national legislative reforms, extend the scope of state accountability, and mobilize international support. Issues addressed include the tensions between universal human rights and national and local differences, the significance of a shift from the language of needs to human rights, the influence of transnational meetings and networks, efforts to reconcile internal social differences among members, and the constraints to such an approach. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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