Sexual harassment and the law in Africa : country and regional perspectives / edited by Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme, Carol Chi Ngang and Graham Towl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saungweme, Furaha-Joy Sekai, editor, author.

Ngang, Carol Chi, editor, author.

Towl, Graham J., editor, author.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual harassment--Law and legislation--Africa.

Sexual harassment.

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (1981 June 27)--Protocols, etc. (2003 July 11).

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Women--Crimes against--Law and legislation--Africa.

Women.

Violence in the workplace--Law and legislation--Africa.

Violence in the workplace.

Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Africa.

Sex discrimination against women.

Sexual harassment--Africa.

Women's rights--Africa.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 231 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme is the founder of Africa End Sexual Harassment Initiative (AESHI) and is a Georgetown Law LAWA Fellow specialising in women's rights in Africa. Furaha sits on the Editorial Board of the Berkeley University Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE) and is an LLM Advisory Committee member of the Georgetown Journal of International Law (GJIL). Carol Chi Ngang is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Law, National University of Lesotho, Research Fellow at the Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State and a Guest Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. He is the UNDP Human Rights Research Chair for Lesotho and a National Research Foundation of South Africa Category C2-rated Researcher. Graham Towl is Professor of Forensic Psychology at Durham University, UK. He was the Pro Vice Chancellor Chair of the influential Durham University Sexual Violence Task Force in 2015/2016 and has co-written several books addressing sexual violence at universities in the UK. As a practitioner psychologist he has worked with sex offenders and victim survivors of sexual violence.

Contents:

The menace of sexual harassment in the workplace: a legal and human rights concern / Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme, Carol Chi Ngang and Graham Towl

Critical reflections on equality, sexual harassment, and the right to sustainable development for women in Africa / Carol Chi Ngang

Ending sexual harassment in Africa through human rights mechanisms: a critical appraisal of the application of the Maputo Protocol by the African human rights system and the ECOWAS Court of Justice / Joelle Nwabueze

Single incident, big impact: Exposing the precarious relationship between sexual harassment and the persistent behaviour standard / Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme and Megan E. Cistulli

A critical analysis of vicarious liability for sexual harassment in South Africa / Yondela Ndema

Legal protection of women with disabilities against sexual harassment in Tanzania / Victoria Melkisedeck Lihiru

Silent but pervasive: sexual harassment against women lawyers in Uganda / Labila Sumayah Musoke

The cost of workplace sexual harassment: a critique of the Ethiopia labour law / Wubrest F. Adamu

Sexual harassment and the law in Kenya: broadening employee rights in the world of work / Wycliffe Nyachoti Otiso

Sexual harassment and the law in Liberia / Veronica Fynn Bruey

Sexual harassment in the Nigerian media environment / Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye

Sexual harassment and the law in Nigeria: exploring the existing legal landscape and highlighting the gaps in legal and institutional frameworks / Oluwatoyin Adejonwo-Osho

Mapping future directions in addressing sexual harassment in Africa / Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme, Carol Chi Ngang and Graham Towl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Written by a team of experts from legal, forensic and policy backgrounds, this book presents new research into sexual violence and harassment across Africa. The book foregrounds the work of African scholars and presents careful research analysis and case studies that consider sexual harassment from legal, socio-economic and cultural realities. It highlights the importance of laws around sexual harassment in Africa, the intersectional challenges it poses to women in the workplace as well as the role of the feminist movement in Africa to hold perpetrators accountable and give voice to survivors of sexual harassment. The book forms part of a broader African driven research initiative on sexual harassment and the law and is written in partnership with the Africa End Sexual Harassment Initiative (AESHI). It also explores the need to focus on best practice benchmarks for Africa and also learning from developments in Africa. Timely and relevant, the book will be of great interest to legal and policy academic scholars, professionals and activists working in the fields of gender policy, forensic psychology and NGOs. It will also be useful reading for postgraduate students of law, gender studies, political science and African studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 09, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Sexual harassment and the law in Africa

ISBN:

9781003373308

1003373305

9781040000847

1040000843

9781040000762

1040000762

Publisher Number:

40032292840

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