Harmful Practices and Human Rights examines different forms of harmful practices, globally, which constitute human rights violations as guaranteed in international and regional human rights instruments. Drawing examples from Africa, Asia, North America, Europe, and Australasia, it demonstrates how these practices undermine the right to health, including sexual and reproductive health, and also impugn the dignity and autonomy of women and girls. Using diverse harmful practices as case studies, the book critically examines the factors that drive harmful practices in developing and developed countries. Specifically, this book focuses on a selection of harmful practices—including dowry payments, ukuthwala, intimate partner violence, harmful tobacco use and its gendered implications, trafficking in persons, widowhood practices, the chinamwari/khomba practice, and child marriage—from both the Global South and North. Its intent is to demonstrate the prevalence of these abuses and underscore the urgent need for states to take decisive steps toward eradication.
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Table of contents
- Human Rights Interventions
- Harmful Practices and Human Rights: An International Perspective
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Harmful Practices as a Human Rights Challenge
- 2. International and Regional Norms on Harmful Practices
- 3. Widowhood Practices and Human Rights in Nigeria
- 4. Beyond the Legal Debates: An African Legal Feminist Response to Support Victims of Ukuthwala in South Africa
- 5. Cultural Relativism Versus Universalism: A Critical Analysis of the Chinamwari/Khomba Practice in Zimbabwe
- 6. The Conundrum of Exchange of Bride Wealth in Customary Marriages: Is It a Harmful Practice?
- 7. Tobacco-Related Harms and Gender: An Overview with Perspectives from India
- 8. Child Marriage in the United States: A Human Rights and Feminist Perspective
- 9. Intimate Partner Violence, Gender Vulnerability and the Realisation of Womenâs Fundamental Rights in Australia
- 10. The Protection of Human Trafficking Victims in the UK: The Role of the Palermo Protocol and State Obligations in the International Law
- 11. An African Feminist Analysis of the Impact of Menstrual Taboos in Abrahamic Religions on Women and Girls in Africa
- 12. Punishing Pregnant Students Through Expulsion from School: A Case Study of Uganda
- 13. Engaging Harmful Traditional Practices from a Supranational Perspective: Reflections from the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
- 14. Cultivating Agency and Claiming Bodily Autonomy: A Response to the Politics of Child Marriage in the African Context
- Index
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