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Symbols Without Substance? Interrogating the Potential of the African Union Convention on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls

Post author By Adenike Akande
Post date 3. October 2025

Prelude to the AUCEVAWG UN Women reports that in 2023, approximately 51,100 women and girls worldwide were murdered by an intimate partner or family member.[1] The highest in any region,…

Tags African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, CEDAW, Maputo Protocol, Violence against Women and Girls, women’s rights

Money wives: An overlooked crisis of child slavery

Post author By Janet Gbam
Post date 29. November 2024

Introduction ‘Stop! I am too young for this; I want to attend school and become a lawyer’. These were the heart-breaking words of Mabena, a 10-year-old girl from Cross River…

Tags CEDAW, Child Slavery, Maputo Protocol, Nigeria

Still Fighting for the Rights of all Women Worldwide

Post author By Prof. Dr Thoko Kaime
Post date 15. October 2021

COMMENT Lena Scheibinger and Prof. Dr Thoko Kaime 15 October 2021 Regular readers of this blog will know that women’s rights was the focus of last month. Nevertheless, the fight…

Tags CEDAW, human rights, International law, Women's Rights in Motion