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Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa Country and Regional Perspectives

Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa Country and Regional Perspectives

Author: Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme; Carol Chi Ngang; Graham Towl
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032446684
Published In: March 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.

1. The menace of sexual harassment in the workplace – A legal and human rights concern

Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme, Carol Chi Ngang and Graham Towl

2. Critical reflections on equality, sexual harassment, and the right to sustainable development for women in Africa

Carol Chi Ngang

3. 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

4. Single incident, big impact: Exposing the precarious relationship between sexual harassment and the persistent behaviour standard

Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme and Megan E. Cistulli

5. A critical analysis of vicarious liability for sexual harassment in South Africa

Yondela Ndema

6. Legal protection of women with disabilities against sexual harassment in Tanzania

Victoria Melkisedeck Lihiru

7. Silent but pervasive: Sexual harassment against women lawyers in Uganda

Labila Sumayah Musoke

8. The cost of workplace sexual harassment: A critique of the Ethiopia labour law

Wubrest F. Adamu

9. Sexual harassment and the law in Kenya: Broadening employee rights in the world of work