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Book Inheritance in Zambia

Download or read book Inheritance in Zambia written by Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land Tenure  Housing Rights and Gender in Zambia

Download or read book Land Tenure Housing Rights and Gender in Zambia written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Suffering in Silence

Download or read book Suffering in Silence written by Janet Fleischman and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS, which has claimed millions of lives in southern Africa, affects girls in Zambia at a much higher rate than boys. As this report shows, sexual abuse and other abuses faced by girls contribute to this disparity. Girls are easy sexual prey to older men who are rarely constrained either by social sanction or inadequately enforced laws from abusing girls.

Book Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa

Download or read book Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa written by Richard Frimpong Oppong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and in-depth analysis of how courts in the countries of Commonwealth Africa decide claims under private international law.

Book Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society

Download or read book Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society written by Ladislav Holý and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the changes in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia as they shifted their form of production from hoe agriculture to ox-drawn plowing. Confronts several theoretical issues of current anthropology including the nature of descent, and the distinction and relationship between descent groups and categories.

Book Living with Dignity

Download or read book Living with Dignity written by Elna Mouton and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By addressing gender equality as a fundamental expression of human dignity and justice on our continent, this collage of ? essays [by 14 women and 6 men], is meant to serve as a concrete alternative to aspects of gender inequality ? Its format is particularly devised for use in the classroom, and for critical-constructive group engagement. It is our sincere prayer that it will also be used in imaginative ways by clergy and in congregations as a necessary part of adult learning programmes.

Book Family Law in Zambia

Download or read book Family Law in Zambia written by Lillian Mushota and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family and Succession Laws in Zambia

Download or read book Family and Succession Laws in Zambia written by Chuma N. Himonga and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 1995 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himonga describes and analyzes the major developments in succession and family laws since the country's independence and places them against the background of changing social and economic conditions. The operation of the law, its application by the courts and other institutions in the informal sphere, and popular responses to the law are a major focus of the book. The book also attempts a critical analysis of the operation of the law and legal institutions in a pluralistic society.

Book Women s Human Rights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Deller Ross
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-10-09
  • ISBN : 0812200020
  • Pages : 702 pages

Download or read book Women s Human Rights written by Susan Deller Ross and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Gender and Identity in Africa

Download or read book Gender and Identity in Africa written by Mechthild Reh and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inheritance Issues

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  • Author : Sandra Fitchat
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Inheritance Issues written by Sandra Fitchat and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Keeping House in Lusaka

Download or read book Keeping House in Lusaka written by Karen Tranberg Hansen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1993, as part of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, hundreds of couples participated in "the Wedding," a symbolic commitment ceremony held in front of the Internal Revenue Service building. Part protest and part affirmation of devotion, the event was a reminder that marriage rights have become a major issue among lesbians and gay men, who cannot marry legally and can only claim domestic partner rights in a few locations in the United States. Yet despite official lack of recognition, same-sex wedding ceremonies have been increasing in frequency over the past decade. Ellen Lewin, who has consecrated her own lesbian relationship with a commitment ceremony, decided to explore the myriad ways in which lesbians and gay men create meaningful ceremonies for themselves. She offers the first comprehensive account of lesbian and gay weddings in modern America. A series of richly detailed profiles--the result of extensive interviews and participation in the planning and realization of many of these commitment rituals--is woven together to show how new traditions, and ultimately new families, are emerging within contemporary America. Just as the book is a moving portrait of same-sex couples today, it is also a significant political document on a new arena in the struggle for lesbian and gay rights. In a larger sense, Lewin's work is about the politics surrounding same-sex marriages and the ramifications for central dimensions of American culture such as kinship, community, morality, and love. Lewin explores the ceremonies themselves, which range from traditional church weddings to Wicca rituals in the countryside, with portraits of the planning, the joys, and the anxieties that led up to the weddings. She introduces Bob and Mark, a leather fetishist couple who sanctified their love by legally changing their last names and exchanging vows in tuxedos, leather bow ties, and knee-high police boots. In an equally absorbing profile, Lewin describes Khadija, from a working-class black family deeply suspicious of whites (and especially Jews) and Shulamith, raised in a Zionist household. She tells of how the two women struggled to reconcile their widely disparate upbringings and how they ultimately combined elements of African and Jewish traditions in their wedding. These, among many other stories, make Recognizing Ourselves a vivid tapestry of lesbian and gay life in post-Stonewall United States.

Book Suffering in Silence

Download or read book Suffering in Silence written by Janet Fleischman and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the United Nations

Book Multistate and Multinational Estate Planning

Download or read book Multistate and Multinational Estate Planning written by Jeffrey A. Schoenblum and published by CCH. This book was released on 2008 with total page 2890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Survey of Family Law

Download or read book The International Survey of Family Law written by Andrew Bainham and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1999-04-21 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The International Survey of Family Law," published on behalf of the International Society of Family Law, is the successor to the "Annual Survey of Family Law," It provides information, analysis and comment on recent developments in Family Law across the world on a country-by- country basis. The "Survey" is published annually and its subtitle reflects the calendar year surveyed. Where a country has been regularly surveyed each year, the developments discussed correspond to the year in question. If certain countries have not been surveyed for some years the contributions will usually attempt to cover the intervening period. If countries are being covered for the first time, then more background information will be provided about the state of family law in the country in question. The "Survey" also contains an article dealing with the more significant developments in international law affecting the family.

Book A Choice of Inheritance

Download or read book A Choice of Inheritance written by David Bromwich and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative emphasis, Bromwich explores this tension. He shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century.