Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Law Reports of Kenya
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A Guide to the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
Author: Judith-Anne MacKenziePublisher:
ISBN: 9781858362670
Category : Land trusts
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This text is an in-depth analysis of what is considered by some as one of the most significant changes to the Law of Property Act since its inception.
The Kenyan TJRC
Author: Ronald SlyePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422039
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Takes a behind the scenes look at the debates and decisions of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.
Kenya Newsletter
Author: The Kenya Law Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789966821287
Category : Sex crimes
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Kenya Law Reports
Author: Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance
Author: Christian M. De VosPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472486
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Critically explores the International Criminal Court's evolution and the domestic effects of its interventions in three African countries.
Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice
Author: Vivek MaruPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316612422
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land, intimidated by violence, and excluded from society. This book is about community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - who demystify law and empower people to advocate for themselves. These paralegals date back to 1950s South Africa and are active today in many countries, but their role has largely been ignored by researchers. Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice is the first book on the subject. Focusing on paralegal movements in six countries, Vivek Maru, Varun Gauri, and their coauthors have collected rich, vivid stories of paralegals helping people to take on injustice, from domestic violence to unlawful mining to denial of wages. From these stories emerges evidence of what works and how. The insights in the book will be of immense value in the global fight for universal justice. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Law of Marriage and Divorce
Author: Eugene CotranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Women's Human Rights
Author: Susan Deller RossPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200020
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
According to Susan Deller Ross, many human rights advocates still do not see women's rights as human rights. Yet women in many countries suffer from laws, practices, customs, and cultural and religious norms that consign them to a deeply inferior status. Advocates might conceive of human rights as involving torture, extrajudicial killings, or cruel and degrading treatment—all clearly in violation of international human rights—and think those issues irrelevant to women. Yet is female genital mutilation, practiced on millions of young girls and even infants, not a gross violation of human rights? When a family decides to murder a daughter in the name of "honor," is that not an extrajudicial killing? When a husband rapes or savagely beats his wife, knowing the legal authorities will take no action on her behalf, is that not cruel and degrading treatment? Women's Human Rights is the first human rights casebook to focus specifically on women's human rights. Rich with interdisciplinary material, the book advances the study of the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs that deny them their most fundamental freedoms. It also provides present and future lawyers the legal tools for change, demonstrating how human rights treaties can be used to obtain new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination with respect to employment, land ownership, inheritance, subordination in marriage, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, and the denial of reproductive rights. Ross examines international and regional human rights treaties in depth, including treaty language and the jurisprudence and general interpretive guidelines developed by human rights bodies. By studying how international human rights law has been and can be implemented at the domestic level through local courts and legislatures, readers will understand how to call upon these newly articulated human rights to help bring about legislation, court decisions, and executive action that protect women from human rights violations.