{"title":"Moslem Women, Religion And The Hijab: A Human Rights Perspective","authors":"Manisuli Ssenyonjo","doi":"10.4314/eajphr.v14i1.39369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/eajphr.v14i1.39369","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the wearing of the female Islamic dress (generally referred\u0000to as the hijab), or any feature of this dress such as the headscarf (khimar), face-veil (niqab) and the head-to-toe all enveloping garment (jilbab) has raised complex human rights issues particularly in the context of women's rights to freedom of religion and its manifestation, equality and nondiscrimination, education and work. This article focuses on the status of the hijab in Islam and selected recent cases concerning the wearing of the\u0000Islamic dress in schools. On the basis of these, two conclusions are made. Firstly, to prevent a person from making a choice to wear religious clothing (like the hijab) in public or private schools or institutions, in the absence of justification compatible with human rights law, may impair the individual's freedom to have or adopt a religion. Secondly, the general exclusion of women from schools or work on account of the Islamic dress might lead to\u0000further discrimination against girls and women in education and employment. A human rights perspective to the Islamic dress should involve as a starting point respecting choices of individual Muslim women to wear or not to wear the hijab. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 14 (1) 2008: pp. 148-200","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128712473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Separating the baby from the bath water: women's rights and the politics of constitution-making in Kenya","authors":"P. Kameri-mbote, Nkatha Kabira","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V14I1.39364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V14I1.39364","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at the process of constitution-making in Kenya from 1990s to 2005 when the proposed new constitution (the product of the process) was rejected in a national referendum held in October 2005. It avers that Kenyan women had succeeded in getting many of the issues that they considered important included in the constitution and should have lobbied to have that constitution adopted. The defeat of the constitution, the authors assert amounted to throwing away the baby with the bath water. It also negated\u0000gains that seemed so close to being realised setting the quest for gender equality back considerably. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 14 (1) 2008: pp. 1-44","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130760037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating socioeconomic rights from abstract paper rights to fully fledged individual rights: lessons from South Africa","authors":"C. Mbazira","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V12I2.39358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V12I2.39358","url":null,"abstract":"The South African Constitutional Court has given effective the economic,\u0000social and cultural rights in the South African Constitution by defining the nature of the obligations that they engender. In this respect, both the Constitution and the jurisprudence offer immense lessons to other domestic jurisdictions on the African continent and elsewhere. In spite of this, the approach of the Court still falls behind international jurisprudence in some respects. The most visible shortfall is rejection of the minimum core\u0000obligations approach which would obligate the state to provide to everyone a minimum level of goods and services. The Court has instead opted for a reasonableness review approach. However, the failure to give substantive content to the rights has made it impossible to fully interrogate the reasonableness of the means chosen by the state to realize the rights. This article proposes a proportionality test to be used to interrogate the means chosen to realize the rights, which is only effective after giving substantive\u0000content to the rights. The article also proposes ways through which the minimum core approach could be used without over burdening the state. The provision of a minimum core should be directed towards those who need it. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 12 (2) 2006: pp. 183-232","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116914394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enforcing Uganda's Amnesty Act (2000) within the context of the Rome Statue","authors":"Isaac Bakayana","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39357","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 321-333","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122860298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eradicating delay in the prosecution of crimes of genocide in Rwanda through Gacaca courts: Will any form of justice do?","authors":"A. W. Mwenifumbo","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39356","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 309-320","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125313803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender and education in post-apartheid South Africa: possibilities and limitations of the international human rights framework","authors":"L.A. Negron","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39350","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 166-189","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117122723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy, courts and the rule of law in Nigeria: problems and prospects","authors":"L. Taiwo","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39354","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 270-293","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"285 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122715466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trips and food security: issues, challenges and strageties for developing countries","authors":"R. Kakungulu-Mayambala","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39352","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 214-239","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124970709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitional justice: the moral foundations of trials and commisions in social and political transformation","authors":"W. Nagan","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39351","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 190-213","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"400 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126674515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of courts in protecting indigenous peoples' rights to land and resources in Kenya and South Africa","authors":"G. Wachira","doi":"10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/EAJPHR.V13I2.39353","url":null,"abstract":"No Abstract. East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights Vol. 13 (2) 2007 pp. 240-269","PeriodicalId":296246,"journal":{"name":"East African journal of peace and human rights","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133537681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}