Download or read book Sharia Women s Human Rights in Nigeria written by Joy Ezeilo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook on Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria written by Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WOMEN S RIGHTS IN NIGERIA written by Adeola Babatunde and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian women are undeniably Nigerians. The status bestow on them, rights and privileges enjoyed by other Nigerians. More so, statistics reveals that they constitute 69,086,302 of Nigeria's 140,431,790 population. This book examines the enforcement of women's rights as human rights in Nigeria. In doing this, it considers customs, constitution, laws, policies, courts' decisions as the court is the last hope of the common man and the place of obligations-imposing international and regional treaties ratified by Nigeria. Also it examines the difficulty of proper balancing of ideals like repressive customs versus societal standards, judicial activism versus Separation of Powers, inadequacy of laws versus non exhaustiveness of laws, international versus local laws supremacy.
Download or read book Shari a Implementation in Nigeria written by Joy Ezeilo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Sharia Numan Rights And Islamic Law In Northern Nigeria written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2004 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democratization and Islamic Law written by Johannes Harnischfeger and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences
Download or read book Human Rights and the Mission of the Church in Nigeria written by Paul Odoeme and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human rights question constitutes a vital link to the mission of the Christian Church. The Church is thereby obliged by principles of the gospel mandate to defend, promote, and protect human rights. Using the Nigerian context as a model, this book examines how the Church exercises its mission towards salvaging the deplorable situation of human rights violations. The Church is accused of intrusive, ethnocentric, and triumphalist tendencies in some methods and structures, which constantly expose it to steady allegations of human rights violations. This scenario evokes an in-depth investigation into the matter to ascertain the extent of the Church's credibility and competence in the human rights question. (Series: TÃ?1⁄4binger Perspectives on Pastoral Theology and Religious Education / Tubinger Perspektiven zur Pastoraltheologie und Religionspadagogik - Vol. 46)
Download or read book Protection of Women s Right Under Sharia Law written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equity for Women Under Sharia Law in Nigeria written by B. Babaji and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharia Gender and Rights of Non Muslims in Northern Nigeria written by Gwamna Dogara Je'adayibe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nigeria Political Shari a written by Carina Tertsakian and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Marriage in Nigeria Human Rights and the Islamic Law Perspectives written by Ammar Badmus and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an attempt to deal with Child Marriage in the perspective of Human Rights Laws and Islamic Law with a view to laying bare the two positions and giving possible solution(s) to create a successful meeting point on the issue of Child Marriage which has triggered such controversies and debate in Nigeria and the world at large.The issue of Child Marriage is a highly charged, sensitive, controversial and emotional matter. This controversy surrounding Child Marriage in Nigeria became more prominent when the former Governor of Zamfara State married a 13year old Egyptian girl-child. Against the backdrop of this provocative marriage is the debate that was later generated on the floor of the Senate where the same Senator and some others reportedly argued for the recognition of Child Marriage. The methodology of this research will be based on historical, analytical and doctrinal approaches in gathering related data. Data so collected would be scrutinized and discussed in order to reach a logical conclusion. The work has examined the problem of child marriage in Nigeria as regards its position under the Human Rights laws and Islamic Law perspectives thereby shedding more light on the lacuna and contradictions apparent in the Human Right laws and the provisions of the Shariah on child marriage. A brief Constitutional position on the issue of child marriage is discussed in this work and the conclusion was made that there is a need for the government to take active responsibility in determining the age of a minor in relation to child marriage based on socio-religious lifestyle of Nigerians and the realities of womanhood. It is with sincere belief and hope that readers are benefited greatly with this research work and the fact that this work is assumed to be a pioneer academic research on this topic, it is expected that more work that look into other areas that have not been captured by this work would be written and published. The author would be gratified by such further works on this issues or related topics.Thank you for your attention and time.Ammar Olaide BadmusJan' 2020
Download or read book Sharia Muslim States and International Human Rights Treaty Obligations written by Nisrine Abiad and published by BIICL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research - undertaken from a comparative perspective with a view to identifying any patterns followed by Islamic countries in making declarations and reservations to the main international human rights treaties - measures and analyzes to what extent Sharia affects the ratification and implementation of human rights norms by Muslim States. An analysis of the various roles of Sharia reveals different approaches in the use of Islamic considerations by Muslim States. At an international level, Sharia has always been used upon the ratification of international human rights treaties to limit the scope of the State's engagement. Internally, however, some recent examples of legislative amendments and judicial activities demonstrate that Sharia is and can be used to achieve a better translation of human rights norms into domestic practice.
Download or read book Zina in the Criminal Legislation Act 1999 2000 written by Paul Orerhime Akpomie and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The research engages in an exploration of human rights in Islam. Human rights issues are then contrasted with international law positions. The data gotten is then used for investigating women's human rights issues in ShariÊla penal tradition regardingzinaÌ (adultery) in Nigeria. The re-emergence of Sharia penal codes adopted by 12 Northern states in Nigeria in 1999 as an operative Islamic law has sparked concerns about rulings amounting to stoning to death in several cases of zinaÌ. These events raised concerns about ShariÊla penal traditions' legality and relationship with other legal traditions operational in Nigeria, a secular political space. (Chapter I) Another element presented is the discrepancy between the theoretical viewpoint on women's human rights. How is this perspective applied to Muslim women's jurisdictions? The research uses the example of ShariÊla court cases with regard tozinaÌ in Nigeria to illustrate the branching between theory and practice of ShariÊla penal laws. Our essay shall consider ShariÊla court proceedings and rulings of Safiyatu Hussaini and Amina Lawal cases ofzinaÌ4 for our research.[1] We shall focus on some of the infringed women's rights violations articulated in the primary court sources and other secondary sources. (Chapter II) Chapter III is dedicated to evaluating the development of the court cases and ruling from thezinaÌ, as mentioned earlier in chapter II. The analysis provides an insight into areas of human rights violations, especially against women. It demonstrates that where women and men had been prosecuted forzinaÌ, mostly women, have been charged and convicted of the crime. Therefore, illustrating the gender biases exhibited in the court convictions and procedural neglects against the women charged. However, the paper's research will also proffer that women's rights in ShariÊla are not completely at odds with principles of international human rights standards of the United Nations. The argument's postulation stems from asserting that the Islamic penal tradition is not inflexible. Based on its primary sources the ShariÊla lends itself to various explications in jurisprudence (fiqh) to help circumvent issues bordering on abuse of women's rights in Islam. The jurisprudence of the Maliki ShariÊla Courts of Appeal inzinaÌ cases will help illustrate this fact. (Chapter III) The research concludes by addressing the possibility of discerning the reconciliation between international rights standards and Islamic women's rights concerns. This thesis acknowledges that there are aspects of women's violations present inzinaÌ-related cases and establishes that there is room for reforms. However, in a pioneering manner, the essay considers a more exhaustive review of the zinaÌ cases above to argue against the notion that it is impossible to attain any form of human rights or justice in ShariÊla courts for women. In order words, it challenges the proposition that ShariÊla penal laws are incompatible with international human rights. This research attempts to refute the position that ShariÊla penal codes are not dynamic. The ShariÊla Appeal Courts in Nigeria are saddled with the responsibility of safeguarding ShariÊla against a reductionist approach to a holistic form that is multi-valued and teleological rather than causal. Such a consideration bridges ShariÊla with regards to women's rights issues inzinaÌ cases with the spirit of international set norms for all human rights. (Chapter IV) This thesis proposes that the ShariÊla Courts of Appeal ruling could be set as a benchmark forum for further evaluative projects of the ShariÊla criminal and penal codes procedures. Adhering to such reforms will be following the legacy of the ShariÊla committee of 1958-1962 set at bridging ShariÊla law in the penal code of 1960 with human rights concerns. The 1999 ShariÊla committee failed to meet this salient mark as discussed in chapter I. The paper ends on a note of suggestions for some considerations for ShariÊla criminal and penal reforms at ordering and safeguarding women's rights in Nigeria.[2] [1] In 2002, Safiya Hussaini was sentenced to death byrajm under the new ShariÊla criminal codes in Sokoto. Amina Lawal was sentenced to be stoned to death forzinaÌ in 2002. These two cases gained international recognition. [2] Before 1960 (Nigeria's independence), ShariÊla law was fully applied in the Sokoto caliphate, northern Nigeria. It was affected by colonial rule.ShariÊla penal codes were revoked at the dawn of Nigeria's independence in 1960. From then on, Islamic sharia law was limited to the law of family relations and personal rank. The settlement in 1960 brought these changes: The Northern courts in which herqadis (judges) administered Islamic law witnessed changes in the court systems and their judges become more Western-trained and less traditionally Muslim. In response to this trend, the program of "implementation of ShariÊla" started in 1999 in 12 Northern states. It was an attempt at restoring thestatus quo ante of ShariÊla before 1960.
Download or read book Human Rights and Shariah Penal Code in Northern Nigeria written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Perspectives on Shari ah in Nigeria written by Philip Ostien and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely publication when the need for greater understanding between Islamic and Western cultures is sharper than ever, the papers in this book are the result of an international conference entitled 'the Shari'ah debate and the shaping of Muslim and Christian identities in Northern Nigeria'. The conference was convened by the University of Jos in northern Nigeria in the wake of the religious/civil strife in the area in 2001 and 2002. The conference, which brought together scholars from Nigeria and overseas considered recent developments in law and religion, and shari'ah from local and global perspectives. The publication is intended to serve as an example of constructive dialogue in an academic setting between Muslims, Christians and those of neither religion, and as a permanent contribution to the literature on law and religion in Nigeria.
Download or read book Sharia and Women s Human Rights in Nigeria written by Abiola Akiyode Afolabi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
