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Title: | Building on a global movement: violence against women in the African context |
Author: | Banda, Fareda |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | African Human Rights Law Journal |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-22 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | women's rights African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights violence |
Abstract: | This article celebrates the gains that have been made by women in the field of human rights as they pertain to issues of violence. It provides an overview of international and regional initiatives, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the SADC Addendum to the 1997 Declaration on Gender and Development. The focus of the article is on provisions in the African Protocol on Women's Rights tackling violence. Specific types of violence covered in the African Women's Protocol include trafficking, harmful practices, domestic violence, the right to bodily integrity, violence in the work place, armed conflict, and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. While acknowledging that normative recognition of rights is not by itself the panacea for the pervasive discrimination that affects women, the article argues that the almost universal recognition of violence against women as constituting a violation of their fundamental rights is cause for celebration, not least because it provides the framework for dealing with the problem and provides states with concrete goals. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |