Harmful Practices and Human Rights: An International Perspective

Ebenezer Durojaye is Professor of Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has published extensively in his areas of research and he is the co-editor of the book COVID-19 and the Right to Health in Africa. Satang Nabaneh is Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of Programs at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, USA. She is also Global Fellow at CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation, Bergen, Norway. Johanna Bond is Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, The State University of New Jersey, USA. Her scholarship focuses on women’s human rights, the United Nations human rights treaty system, and feminist legal theory.

• Chapter 1: Harmful practices as a human rights challenge.- Chapter 2: International and regional norms on harmful practices.- Chapter 3: Widowhood practices and human rights in Nigeria.- Chapter 4: Beyond the legal debates: An African legal feminist response to support victims of ukuthwala in South Africa.- Chapter 5: Cultural relativism versus universalism: a critical analysis of the chinamwari/khomba practice in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6: The conundrum of exchange of bride wealth in customary marriages: is it a harmful practice?.- Chapter 7: Tobacco-related harms & gender: An overview with perspectives from India.- Chapter 8: Child marriage in the United States: A human rights and feminist perspective.- Chapter 9: Intimate partner violence, gender vulnerability and the realisation of women’s fundamental rights in Australia.- Chapter 10: The protection of human trafficking victims in the UK: The role of the Palermo Protocol and state obligations in the international law.- Chapter 11: An African feminist analysis of the impact of menstrual taboos in Abrahamic religions on women and girls in Africa.- Chapter 12: Punishing pregnant students through expulsion from school: A case study of Uganda.- Chapter 13: Engaging harmful traditional practices from a supranational perspective: Reflections from the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.- Chapter 14: Cultivating agency and claiming bodily autonomy: A response to the politics of child marriage in the African context.