Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23513
Title: Human Rights Frameworks and Women's Rights in Post-transitional Justice Sierra Leone
Contributor(s): Lahai, John Idriss  (author)orcid ; Lahai, Nenneh (author)
Publication Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54202-7_6
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23513
Abstract: The end of transitional justice in Sierra Leone coincided with an increase in women's human rights activism. Reasons for this included an increase in the level of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and the ineffectiveness and insensitivity of the human rights laws of the country. To the women's rights activists, SGBV and its associated inequalities before the law, irrespective of the context, were incompatible with the universal tenets of human rights. Within the purview of feminist legal theory, women's rights were understood to be not just about the codification of rights and responsibilities, but also about recognizing the familial, social, cultural, political, and economic ramifications of gender inequality on the incidence of violence and discrimination experienced by women who seek redress from, or are in conflict with, the law. This theory also understands, in context-neutral terms, women's rights to be about the reconfiguration of the institutions and policies created to protect the inalienable rights and agency of women.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice, p. 143-174
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Cham, Switzerland
ISBN: 9783319542027
9783319542010
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 180114 Human Rights Law
169901 Gender Specific Studies
180108 Constitutional Law
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 480702 Constitutional law
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940399 International Relations not elsewhere classified
940403 Criminal Justice
940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230403 Criminal justice
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Series Name: Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South
Editor: Editor(s): John Idriss Lahai and Khanyisela Moyo
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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