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Legal and social complexities relating to practice of arranged and forced marriages
(Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, 2021)
The practice of forced and/or arranged marriages are reported to be taking place globally. These types of marriages have become gender neutral and can no longer be described only as an issue relating to women. However, ...
Towards equality for women with disabilities in South Africa: The implementation of articles 5 and 6 of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities South Africa: The implementation of articles 5 and 6 of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
(2021)
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides for various rights that must be prioritised by states parties which have signed and ratified it, with particular emphasis on the right to ...
Confronting apartheid. A personal history of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine, John Dugard
(Juta, 2021)
John Dugard is a household name in the law of South Africa. Perhaps even before that, but certainly since his inaugural lecture was published fully 50 years ago (see 'The judicial process, positivism and civil liberty' ...
Reaping “bumper harvests” during the Covid-19 pandemic: Interrogating the dynamics of corruption during the procurement of relief and healthcare items in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The discovery of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV2 or COVID-19) in Wuhan, China was considered a Chinese problem by Ugandans until confirmation of the first positive test in the country, in March 2020. The government went into ...
The symbiosis between the criminalisation of sex work and corrupt policing in sex work in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Despite existing studies that prove the prevalence of corrupt policing of sex work in South Africa, corruption continues to be a common feature of sex workers’ experiences with police officers. In this article, it is argued ...
Legal pluralism and the right to family life and the transfer of offenders who are nationals of African countries, within Africa to Africa
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Globalisation has been accompanied by, inter alia, the movement of people from
their countries of nationality or citizenship to other countries in search of better
opportunities. Some of these people have been convicted ...