Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume II, 1st ed. 2022 Sexual Violence and Vulnerability Sustainable Development Goals Series

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts. As a global and long-standing issue, violence against women is gaining public visibility across the African continent with some states announcing a national crisis warranting immediate redress. At the global level, the elimination of all forms of violence against all women and girls forms a key part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. Split across two volumes, these books present a comprehensive analysis of the latest research and theories, principles and practices of criminal justice systems, criminal justice accountability mechanisms, and the key challenges women face in their quest for justice on the African continent. This volume (II) focusses on sexual violence and vulnerable women?s access to justice in Africa. Volume I focusses on legislation and its impact, the limitations of criminal justice responses, and the cultural and social norms regarding access to justice. Together, they adopt a comparative approach that highlight gaps and good practices to provide a rich source of authoritative information for promoting an intra-African dialogue and cross-fertilization of ideas across the different criminal justice traditions in Africa. Both volumes seek to advance discussions on eliminating violence against women in Africa and speak to those interested in criminal justice, violence, gender studies and African legal studies.

Chapter One: Introduction (Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz and Emma C Lubaale)

SECTION TWO: SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Chapter two: Responding to sexual violence, protecting survivors and ending impunity in Ghana (Christine Dowuona-Hammond and Ama F Hammond)

Chapter three: Access to justice for female victims of sexual violence in Uganda (Charlotte Kabaseke and Barbara Kitui)

Chapter four: Women as survivors of sexual violence in Zambia: The unheard voices (Ellah TM Siang’andu)

Chapter five: Combating marital rape: The law and the criminal justice system in Uganda (Atim P Odong and Barbara L Can)

Chapter six: Accountability for sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeepers: Case studies of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic (Linda Mushoriwa, Esther Njieassam and Thibaut Bata)

Chapter seven: Conflict-related sexual violence in North East Nigeria: Strenthening legal responses (Iyabode Ogunniran)

Chapter eight: Prospects for reparations for victims of conflict related sexual violence in Uganda (Josephine Ndagire)

Chapter nine: Incorporating human rights in the fight against police sexual violence in Malawi (Pachalo Mwenelupembe)

SECTION THREE: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND WOMEN IN SITUATIONS OF VULNERABILITY IN AFRICA

Chapter Ten: The invisible woman: Limits to achieving criminal accountability for violence against women with disabilities in Africa (Adetokunbo Johnson and Satang Nabaneh)

Chapter eleven: The right to maternal healthcare of migrant and refugee women in South Africa and Uganda: Criminal accountability as a tool to address violation (Jackline Hakim, Annette Lansink and Emma C Lubaale)

Chapter twelve: Access to justice for women in Eswatini: HIV positive women as a vulnerable population (Simangele D Mavundla, Ann Strode and Zaynab Essack)

Chapter thirteen: Protection of refugee women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence under International Law (Charity Ebeku and Taiwo Odumosu)

Chapter fourteen: Margins within the Marginalised: Violence and access to justice of Lesbians, Bisexual and Queer Women in Africa (Arudi Laurah)

Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz is the programme manager of the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Emma Charlene Lubaale is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Rhodes University, South Africa.

Provides scholarly and practical insights from a wide range of countries across the African continent

Explores the practical challenges of advancing justice for women on the African continent

Speaks directly to UN SDG 5: Gender Equality