Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa
Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender an...
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| description | Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries. Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigates how women have fared within domestic African judiciaries as both actors and litigants. It explores how women negotiate multiple hierarchies to access the judiciary, and how gender-related issues are handled in courts. The chapters in the book provide policy, theoretical and practical prescriptions to the challenges identified, and offer recommendations for the future directions of gender and judging in the post-COVID-19 era, including the role of technology, artificial intelligence, social media, and institutional transformations that can help promote women’s rights. Bringing together specific cases from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, and South Africa and regional bodies such as ECOWAS and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and covering a broad range of thematic reflections, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of African law, judicial politics, judicial training, and gender studies. It will also be useful to bilateral and multilateral donor institutions financing gender-sensitive judicial reform programs, particularly in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429327865/gender-judging-courts-africa-jarpa-dawuni, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1610362025-07-29T22:35:22Z Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa Dawuni, J. Jarpa Mulago National Referral Hospital Gender GBV Case Judiciary Zuma Rape Trial African Law CEDAW Africa GBV ECOWAS Maputo Protocol World Bank Women Judges Kenya Gender Equality Tanzania UN Ghana Revenge Pornography Zambia Judicial Training Human Rights African Charter JSC. African Commission Matrimonial Property Judicial Training Program Gender Training Domestic Violence Act Judicial Diversity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAF Systems of law thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries. Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigates how women have fared within domestic African judiciaries as both actors and litigants. It explores how women negotiate multiple hierarchies to access the judiciary, and how gender-related issues are handled in courts. The chapters in the book provide policy, theoretical and practical prescriptions to the challenges identified, and offer recommendations for the future directions of gender and judging in the post-COVID-19 era, including the role of technology, artificial intelligence, social media, and institutional transformations that can help promote women’s rights. Bringing together specific cases from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, and South Africa and regional bodies such as ECOWAS and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and covering a broad range of thematic reflections, this book will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of African law, judicial politics, judicial training, and gender studies. It will also be useful to bilateral and multilateral donor institutions financing gender-sensitive judicial reform programs, particularly in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429327865/gender-judging-courts-africa-jarpa-dawuni, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2025-05-31T06:52:57Z 2025-05-31T06:52:57Z 2025-05-30T06:46:00Z 2021 book ONIX_20250530T083217_9781000473308_85 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103132 9781000473308 9780367344580 9781000473315 9781032129525 9780429327865 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161036 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103132/1/9781000473308.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103132/1/9781000473308.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429327865 10.4324/9780429327865 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781000473308 9780367344580 9781000473315 9781032129525 9780429327865 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge African Studies 2020 - 2022 Routledge 346 Oxford [...] open access |
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| topic | Mulago National Referral Hospital Gender GBV Case Judiciary Zuma Rape Trial African Law CEDAW Africa GBV ECOWAS Maputo Protocol World Bank Women Judges Kenya Gender Equality Tanzania UN Ghana Revenge Pornography Zambia Judicial Training Human Rights African Charter JSC. African Commission Matrimonial Property Judicial Training Program Gender Training Domestic Violence Act Judicial Diversity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAF Systems of law thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics |
| topic_facet | Mulago National Referral Hospital Gender GBV Case Judiciary Zuma Rape Trial African Law CEDAW Africa GBV ECOWAS Maputo Protocol World Bank Women Judges Kenya Gender Equality Tanzania UN Ghana Revenge Pornography Zambia Judicial Training Human Rights African Charter JSC. African Commission Matrimonial Property Judicial Training Program Gender Training Domestic Violence Act Judicial Diversity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAF Systems of law thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics |
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