KENYA DOUBLE STANDARDS: Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya
Title | KENYA DOUBLE STANDARDS: Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Human Rights Watch |
Pages | 53 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Sex discrimination against women |
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Double Standards
Title | Double Standards PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 51 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Civil rights |
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This site documents property rights violations committed against Kenyan women and calls for Kenya's new government to take steps to end them.
A Critical Review of the Women's Property Rights in Kenya
Title | A Critical Review of the Women's Property Rights in Kenya PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Right of property |
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Women's Land and Property Rights in Kenya
Title | Women's Land and Property Rights in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Njoka |
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Pages | 40 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Land tenure |
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Law and the Quest for Gender Equality in Kenya
Title | Law and the Quest for Gender Equality in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Kivutha Kibwana |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Gender equality |
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Women's Land and Property Rights in Kenya
Title | Women's Land and Property Rights in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | International Federation of Women Lawyers. Kenya Chapter |
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Pages | 26 |
Release | 2014 |
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Women's Rights in Kenyan Jurisprudence
Title | Women's Rights in Kenyan Jurisprudence PDF eBook |
Author | Felix Okiri |
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Pages | 160 |
Release | 2019-05-25 |
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ISBN | 9783668976283 |
Document from the year 2019 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, language: English, abstract: Attaching premium to the rights of women and their enforcement in Kenya, the scope of this book is calibrated on both the philosophies surrounding the existence of the various rights of women, their enforcement and realization. In the above context, the book seeks to foster understanding on the following topical issues - concept of gender parity; concept of gender legislation; feminism theory; reproductive rights of women; women's property rights in Kenya; and the existence, practice and rights of women living in woman to woman marriages.Gender equality, defined as a numerical concept denotes real or relative numerical and proportional equality of girls and boys and women and men. To address the gender inequalities as a measure to the attainment of the desired equality, the place and operation of legislation has been considered as key. The book also studies jurisprudence on enforcement of reproductive rights in Kenya. Defined as a person's rights relating to the control of his or her procreative activities, the book queries the numerous cluster of liberties relating to pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization especially the personal bodily rights of women among others. The book tests the woman concern in the making of reproductive decisions free from discrimination, coercion, or violence. As a highly contentious matter in the women rights campaign, the book studies the regime of property ownership in Kenya with specific regards to the rights of women to own, use and dispose property. The book examines Kenya's jurisprudence to elicit the court's and feminists' perspectives in advancing the woman concern. Lastly, the book writes on a silent topical issue of woman to woman marriage which unlike lesbianism, is a practice where a woman marries another woman and assumes control over her and her offspring for the purpose of child bearing. The book fin