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Legal Pluralism, Customary Law and Women’s Rights

Southern African Public Law, 2018
This article examines the challenges legal pluralism poses in legal systems, especially in relation to conflicts between customary norms and the Bill of Rights and the need to contextualise customary law in order to resolve the need to adapt it to changing societal needs and values.
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Evaluation of grassroots community–based legal aid activities in Uganda and Tanzania: Strengthening women’s legal knowledge and land rights: [PDF]

, 2013
Progressive legislative actions in Uganda and Tanzania have improved women’s legal rights to land, however significant gender disparities persist in access, control, inheritance, and ownership of land at the grassroots level. One promising mechanism to improve the implementation of laws is through Community–based Legal Aid (CBLA) programs, which ...
Peterman, Amber, Billings, Lucy, Behrman, Julia A.   +2 more
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Keep up the fight for scientists’ human rights

Nature Reviews Materials, 2022
Zafra Lerman
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Progressive Women’s NGOs’ Interpretations of Women’s Rights

2014
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Promotion of children's rights and prevention of child maltreatment

Lancet, The, 2009
Nigel Parton
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Orthodox Islamist Interpretations of Women’s Rights

2014
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Human rights violations of people with mental and psychosocial disabilities: an unresolved global crisis

Lancet, The, 2011
Stephen Tang, Soumitra Pathare, Lawrence Gostin   +2 more
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