Book contents
- Adjudicating African Women’s Rights
- Additional material
- Adjudicating African Women’s Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation and International Instruments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State Responsibility for Gender-Based Discrimination: A Pioneering Triumph for Women’s Rights in Africa
- 3 Delimiting State Responsibility for Gender-Based Violence
- 4 The Rights of Domestic Violence Victims in International Law
- 5 Access to Justice for Rape Victims
- 6 Protecting Women’s Rights in Marriage and Family Life
- 7 Widows’ Rights to Housing, Property, and Dignity
- 8 Equal Access to Quality Education for Pregnant Teen Girls
- 9 The Maputo Protocol Difference: A Capsule Review of Post-Njemanze Cases without Maputo Protocol
- 10 Conclusion: A Legacy of Trailblazing African Women’s Rights
- Postscript
- Appendix
- Index
1 - Introduction
Shaping African Women’s Rights in the ECOWAS Court
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2026
Book contents
- Adjudicating African Women’s Rights
- Additional material
- Adjudicating African Women’s Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation and International Instruments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State Responsibility for Gender-Based Discrimination: A Pioneering Triumph for Women’s Rights in Africa
- 3 Delimiting State Responsibility for Gender-Based Violence
- 4 The Rights of Domestic Violence Victims in International Law
- 5 Access to Justice for Rape Victims
- 6 Protecting Women’s Rights in Marriage and Family Life
- 7 Widows’ Rights to Housing, Property, and Dignity
- 8 Equal Access to Quality Education for Pregnant Teen Girls
- 9 The Maputo Protocol Difference: A Capsule Review of Post-Njemanze Cases without Maputo Protocol
- 10 Conclusion: A Legacy of Trailblazing African Women’s Rights
- Postscript
- Appendix
- Index
Summary
This introductory chapter provides the background and contextual information to ground the book, including its objectives, significance, and relevance of the subject matter, the guiding research questions to be addressed, the nature of the ECOWAS Court’s human rights mandate, the normative and analytical frameworks used, and the methodology employed in selecting the cases analysed.
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- Adjudicating African Women's RightsThe Jurisprudence of the ECOWAS Court, pp. 1 - 53Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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