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    Unpacking rights in indigenous African societies: indigenous culture and the question of sexual and reproductive rights in Africa

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2011
    Modern declarations on human rights have often proceeded without reference to the cultural content of rights, the existence of rights in African indigenous backgrounds, and the embodiment of certain key rights in the community itself.
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    Waiting for the hangman

    Amnesty International, 2008
    Under international human rights standards, capital punishment can only be used after the most exacting due process of law. However, as this Amnesty International report on death penalty in Nigeria shows, the failures in the Nigerian criminal justice system routinely breach international human rights law and standards.
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    ‘Culture’ still impedes women’s rights across Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Every African state has signed at least one international treaty providing for the human rights of women. But women often experience discrimination because of their sex. Practices such as genital mutilation, forced marriage and polygamy, along with the inability to access property and education prevent them from enjoying their rights.
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    Theatre helps explore citizenship

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Nigerians can explore their ideas of identity and citizenship through theatre. Songs, stories, dance and dialogue drawn from their everyday life help them with this.
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    Electoral systems and the protection and participation of minorities

    Minority Rights Group International, 2006
    This document examines and evaluates the level of minority inclusion in electoral systems in different conflict situations worldwide. It specifically focuses on how the participation of minorities in the legislative process at the stage of electoral reform is a key tool, both in peace building and in future conflict prevention.
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    id21 viewpoint - Litigating for climate justice

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Litigation (legal action) for justice over climate change is an immense global issue which is likely to increase in the future. The complexities of legal systems are a disadvantage for poor communities, who often suffer the most serious impacts of climate change. Is it worth these people going to court over climate change?
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    Putting ‘justice’ into the juvenile justice system

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Across the globe, children who live and work on the streets are particularly vulnerable to human rights violations in juvenile justice systems. Not only are they more likely to have contact with the police and the courts, but they are also less able to defend themselves from abuse. Experiences reported by children go against rights specified in the UN Convention on the Rights of the child.
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    Domestic, regional, and international protection of Nigerian women against discrimination: constraints and possiblities

    African Studies Quarterly, 2002
    This paper approaches questions concerning human rights and discrimination against women from a perspective that tries to divorce itself from what the author views as implicit Western biases in prevailing scholarship.
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    Nigeria: Are human rights in the pipeline?

    Amnesty International, 2004
    Based on interviews of representatives of oil companies, community activists, farmers, scientists, police officers, academics, and members of NGO’s, this report assesses the human rights situation in Nigeria and in the Niger Delta in particular.This report highlights how human rights of individuals and communities have been abused and violated as a result of practices of transnational corporati

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