Promoting Women's Rights as Human Rights: A Human Rights Education Manual

The concept of human rights currently provides the guidelines and principles for new thinking about development. It is the core of global social policy and influences development policy and plans o…

Gender, Economies and Entitlements in Africa

This theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded book draws extensively on feminist methodologies to discuss gender, economies and entitlements in Africa. It deals critically with a broad …

Strengthening National Human Rights Commissions in Africa

This third volume in Africa Legal Aid's Special book series is devoted to international criminal law and, more specifically, to the initiatives that have been taken in recent years to hold crimina…

Gender Violence In Education

This special issue of Agenda on ‘Gender violence and education’ shows why violence remains an intractable problem in education. In putting educational settings under the spotlight, the intentio…

Agenda- Empowering Women for gender equity: Gender-based violence Trilogy

We at Agenda are alarmed that despite enabling legislation in South Africa, the rate of domestic violence is increasing. We should all be alarmed. Domestic violence is a shadow in most of our lives…

Uganda Baseline Survey on the African Women's Rights Protocol- The Maputo Pro…

The Maputo Protocol also affirms the rights of vulnerable groups such as widows, the elderly and disabled and “women in distress”, which includes poor women, women from marginalized population…

Monitoring and Investigating Excessive Use of Force

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Monitoring and Investigating Human Rights Abuses in Armed Conflicts

The booklet starts with a look at monitoring in the context of armed conflict and examines what general information is required to prepare for fact-finding in situations of armed conflict. This is …

Monitoring and Investigating Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, …

Torture can take various forms, and some of the most common methods are described below. They include: beatings, imposition of electric shocks, hanging by the arms or legs, rape, sexual assault, or…

Voices of Protest: Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa

The socioeconomic transformation of South Africa is necessary for the consolidation of its democracy. This can be fully realized only when poor people's voices are heard in the corridors of power. …

Where is the Money for Women's Rights? Assessing resources and the role of do…

This report is the result of an ongoing action-research initiative launched by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) to explore these questions and to draw insights into possible…

Full Frontal Feminism: A young woman's Guide to why Feminism Matters

Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and relatable guide to the issues that matter to today’s young women. This edition includes a new foreword by Valenti, reflecting upon what’s happened in the se…

Rewriting Gender:Reading Contemporary Chinese Women

This major intervention into feminist literary theory calls for a more sociologically informed use of the concept of discourse. Through an exploration of changing literary and gender relations in p…

The Field of Women's Organizing in Mongolia: Possibilities of a Feminist Move…

This study was commissioned by the MONES in order to identify obstacles to and effective strategies for promoting feminist movement-building in Mongolia. The study is premised on a normative stance…

To be a Woman: The Birth of the Conscious Feminine

Essays by psychologists, feminists, and scholars discuss the changing role of women, the development of conscious femininity, female-initiated divorce, the return to motherhood, and female-centered…

The Women's Manifesto for Ghana

The Women Manifesto is a political document. It sets out critical issues of concern to women in Ghana and makes demands for addressing them. The Manifesto is a direct result of concern about the in…