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Regional Judicial Colloquium for Eastern & Southern Africa: Access to justice for women’s economic rights

July 2021

On 22 and 23 July 2021, IWRAW Asia Pacific alongside the Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), and the Miami School of Law, organised a regional judicial colloquium for Eastern and Southern Africa with a specific […]

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White Paper on Women’s Equality and Economic Rights in Eastern and Southern Africa

January 2021

This white paper and accompanying documents discuss women’s equality and economic rights in Southern and Eastern Africa. They were drafted by Rebecca Ramirez, a legal intern with the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Miami School of Law, under the supervision of the Clinic’s Acting Director, Tamar Ezer. Ishita Dutta of IWRAW Asia Pacific […]

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Disrupting the Global Food Systems towards Advancing Gender Equality, Human Rights and International Solidarity: The Case of South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico

December 2020

COVID-19 has undermined food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. Furthermore, COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning impacts are on the demand side – economic and physical access […]

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‘LALELA’: Amplifying the voices of LBTQ persons in Zimbabwe

December 2020

Presented by Pakasipiti, this session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 highlights key issues around macroeconomic justice especially for the marginalised LBTQ community in Africa, using poetry and spoken word. With speakers Miles Moyo (Voice of the Voiceless) and Tinashe Wakapila. Duration: 1:31:05 Subtitles: None

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Comparative Legal Review of the Impact of Muslim Family Laws on Women across Commonwealth Asia and Africa

2019

Article 16 of CEDAW specifically provides for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in all matters relating to marriage and family relations. Many Muslim-majority countries and countries with significant Muslim minorities are party to CEDAW but continue to hold reservations with regard to family law matters, including Article 16. This 135-page report, in […]

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