Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Constraints and Opportunities
Redaktion: Durojaye, Ebenezer; Ngwena, Charles; Mirugi-Mukundi, Gladys

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000401349
• Artikelnr.: 61775275

Autorenporträt

Ebenezer Durojaye is Professor and Head of the Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi is a researcher in the Socio-Economic Rights Projects at the Dullah Omar Institute, based at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. Charles Ngwena is Professor of Law, Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Abortion and 'conscientious objection' in South Africa:
The need for regulation 3. Addressing Maternal Mortality through
decriminalizing abortion in Nigeria: Asking the "Woman Question" 4.
Mainstreaming the 'Abortion Question' into the Right to Health in Uganda 5.
Barriers to Access to Contraceptives for Adolescent Girls in Rural Zimbabwe
as a Human Rights Challenge 6. It Takes Two to Tango! - The Relevance and
Dilemma of Involving Men in the Realisation of Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights in Africa 7. Positive Approaches to Childhood Sexuality
and Transforming Gender Norms in Malawi 8. Addressing Female Genital
Cutting/Mutilation (FGC/M) in The Gambia: Beyond Criminalisation 9. In
Search of a Middle Ground: Addressing Cultural and Religious Influences on
the Criminalisation of Homosexuality in Nigeria 10. A Case for Removing
Barriers to Legal Recognition of Transgender Persons in Botswana 11.
Advancing the Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities under the African
Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The Journey to Resolution 275 12.
Lessons from Litigating for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in
Southern Africa 13. Experiences from the Kenya National Commission on Human
Rights KNCHR) on the Promotion and Protection of Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights 14. Monitoring implementation of the sexual and
reproductive health and rights of adolescent children: the role of the
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child