Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a Senior Lecturer of Law at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana where she also serves as the Director of Research. She is also a lawyer and an international human rights research and training consultant. She is a Fulbright Scholar.

• 1. Introduction: shaping African women's rights in the ECOWAS court; 2. State responsibility for gender-based discrimination: a pioneering triumph for women's rights in Africa Dorothy Njemanz; 3. Delimiting state responsibility for gender-based violence Collectif v. Mali; 4. The rights of domestic violence victims in international law Mary Sunday and Sarah Kingsley Odoro; 5. Access to justice for rape victims Ekundayo Idris, Adama Vandi and Satta Lamin Banya; 6. Protecting women's rights in marriage and family life Aminata Diantou Diane; 7. Widows' rights to housing, property and dignity Kadiatou Siby; 8. Equal access to quality education for pregnant teen girls Waves; 9. The Maputo protocol difference: a capsule review of post-Njemanze cases without Maputo protocol; 10. Conclusion: a legacy of trailblazing African women's rights; Postscript; Appendix; Index.

Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a Senior Lecturer of Law at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana where she also serves as the Director of Research. She is also a lawyer and an international human rights research and training consultant. She is a Fulbright Scholar.

• 1. Introduction: shaping African women's rights in the ECOWAS court; 2. State responsibility for gender-based discrimination: a pioneering triumph for women's rights in Africa Dorothy Njemanz; 3. Delimiting state responsibility for gender-based violence Collectif v. Mali; 4. The rights of domestic violence victims in international law Mary Sunday and Sarah Kingsley Odoro; 5. Access to justice for rape victims Ekundayo Idris, Adama Vandi and Satta Lamin Banya; 6. Protecting women's rights in marriage and family life Aminata Diantou Diane; 7. Widows' rights to housing, property and dignity Kadiatou Siby; 8. Equal access to quality education for pregnant teen girls Waves; 9. The Maputo protocol difference: a capsule review of post-Njemanze cases without Maputo protocol; 10. Conclusion: a legacy of trailblazing African women's rights; Postscript; Appendix; Index.