Engendering human rights : cultural and socioeconomic realities in Africa

Introduction: Context(ure) of Human Rights J.Ezeilo & O.Nnaemeka PART I: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AT THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER, RACE AND CLASS Apartheid and Health Professional Accountability: Violations of Reproductive Rights of Women J.de Gruchy & L.Baldwin-Ragaven Take Me to the Village: African Women and the Dynamic of Health and Human Rights in Tanzania and Zimbabwe S.Nzenza-Shand The Right to Reproductive Health in South African Constitution - A Real Victory for Women? L.Feris PART II: SITES OF STRUGGLE: THE PERSONAL IN POLITICAL Women, Religion and Postmodernism N.El Saadawi Women from the Maghrib and Sub-Saharan Africa in France: Fighting for Health and Basic Human Rights C.Raissiguier Women's Rights as Human Rights: Re-Writing African Women's (Auto)biography M.Kolawale PART III: THE RIGHTS OF FEMALE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS The Girl-Child in Africa: From Rhetoric to Action - Towards Economic Empowerment U.Ewelukwa Poverty, Adolescent Sexuality and the Shadow of AIDS: A Study of Female Motor Park Workers in Lagos, Nigeria S.Babalola & P.Nwashili Sociocultural Barriers to the Education of Kenyan Girls: Gender Discrimination and Sexual Violence in Secondary Schools K.L.Webster PART IV: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: INVASIONS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES The Impact of Human Rights Discourse on the Traditional Practice of Female Genital Mutilation C.Packer Unveiling the Mask of Privacy: Protecting Survivors of Violence Against Women in Kenya J.Kamau Wife battery Among Workers in a Nigerian University: Prevalence, Nature, and the Rights of Women M.Tiamiyu PART V: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS Female Genital Mutilation: Campaigns in Germany T.Levin Readability of Children's Rights Documents: The LIASSO Experience, N.Osakwe & N.Nwodo