Judicial Bench Book on Violence Against Women in Commonwealth East Africa

ISBN-13: 9781849291613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 350 str.

Commonwealth Secretariat

Opis

The judiciary plays a central role in enhancing and protecting women's rights, as well as the development and enforcement of formal legal responses to discriminatory and criminal activities, including violence against women (VAW). This book situates VAW in four member countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. By placing VAW within the socio-cultural and legal context of the region, it is hoped that this bench book will enhance the ability of judicial officers to handle cases of VAW, both within a human rights, as well as a gender, perspective. This is a quick and helpful reference book for judicial officers, in line with the foundations of the common law system-stare decisis and judicial precedent. Through case law, measures to address VAW and the role of the judiciary in ensuring that the state fulfills its obligations are discussed. Also included are examples of how a lack of appreciation of the lived realities of female victims of violence can lead to denial of justice. The critique of such cases will expose the injustice arising from failure to interpret the law through a gender lens, thereby offering important lessons to judicial officers. Subject: African Studies, Law, Gender Studies, Politics]