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Federalism under pressure: Federal ‘health’ factors and ‘co-morbidities’
(Routledge, 2021)The Covid-19 pandemic has been a ‘focusing event’ (Béland et al. 2020) for federalism like no other, placing it under the microscope and giving rise to the three questions set out in the introduction of this book. Each ... -
Controlling public health emergencies in federal systems
(Routledge, 2021)It was merely a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) a global pandemic that Ethiopia recorded its first case of infection. On 12 March 2020, a week after entering the ... -
Introduction: How federations combat Covid-19
(Routledge, 2021)On 31 December 2019, the first cases of the coronavirus, Covid-19, were identified in Wuhan City, China. Its dramatic rate of transmission and deadly effects soon led to the city’s shutdown, but not before it took wing ... -
South Africa: Surfing towards centralisation on the Covid-19 wave
(Routledge, 2021)When the Covid-19 pandemic reached its shores between February and March 2020, South Africa was already in a vulnerable situation – socially, economically, and politically. Although the country’s population, estimated ... -
The effects of reporting on the realisation of children’s rights in Central Africa
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)State reporting is an integral part of the obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfil children’s rights as set out in global and African human rights instruments, that is, the United Nations Convention on the ... -
The interaction between family law, succession law and private international law: An introduction
(Intersentia, 2021)At the national level, the rules of substantive family and succession law work with private international law rules created specifically for these substantive laws. Hence, there cannot be any question that there is an ... -
Equity
(Oxford University Press, 2021)This chapter critically analyses the notion of equity in international environmental law. It begins by discussing the meaning of equity in international law and briefly reflecting on familiar examples of the manifestation ... -
The African children’s charter at 30: What implications for child and family law?
(Intersentia, 2021)This chapter examines the progress made and the difficulties encountered in the implementation of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (hereinafter the Charter) in the areas of children's rights and ... -
Children’s rights and parental authority: African perspectives
(Routledge, 2021)Traditionally, children in African societies were raised communally, with extended family members playing a vital role in child rearing and care. Social reality is playing a formative role in relation to family law and ... -
Thirty years of the CRC in Africa
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter reviews 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa. It notes that there has been significant upgrading and modernisation of child law throughout the continent, notably in child protection ... -
Human rights and the transformation of property. By Stuart Wilson
(Juta, 2021)A book devoted to the transformation of law, in this case property law, which is published in South Africa is cause for celebration. Such a work devoted to South African law is rarer than the proverbial dentures of a hen. ... -
Kenya Kenyan Kadhis’ courts and their application of the Islamic law of divorce and distribution of property at the dissolution of marriage
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)Kenya does not have a State religion. Muslims are estimated to constitute than 10% of the Kenyan population. The ‘Kenyan Islamic practice … is predominantly Sunni with a Shafi intellectual tradition.’ However, there are ... -
Barriers to access to contraceptives for adolescent girls in rural Zimbabwe as a human rights challenge
(Routledge, 2021)Approximately 214 million women in developing countries between ages 15 and 49 have an unmet need for contraception.1 In Zimbabwe, 12% of unmarried adolescent girls have an unmet need for contraception. Contraceptive use ... -
The law and politics of internal secession: The Ethiopian experience in comparative perspective
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021)Although secession has been the subject of much scholarly work, the focus has largely been on the external dimension of secession, the decision of a territory to leave an existing state and establish itself as independent ... -
Subnational constitutionalism in Ethiopia : Constitutional déjà vu
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter provides a concise account of the nature, scope and relevance of state constitutions in Ethiopia. The major armed forces that challenged state policy were the Eritrean liberation fronts that launched armed ... -
In the name of diversity: The disenfranchisement of citizens in an African Federation
(Brill, 2021)The empowerment of ethnic communities is the cornerstone of the constitutional arrangement of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The Constitution organises the state along ethnic lines by using ethnicity as ... -
Lessons from litigating for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis group, 2021)This chapter focuses on lessons learnt from the experiences of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) in instituting and supporting strategic litigation on sexual and reproductive health rights in Southern Africa. ... -
The rule of law and compliance: Legal quadrant and conceptual clustering
(Springer, Cham, 2021)We present in this paper: (i) a regulatory quadrant to describe the rule of law; (ii) a cluster of concepts to describe instruments and processes of the law; (iii) the methodology followed to select the technical papers ... -
Real or imagined local autonomy: Experiences from local government in Ethiopia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Koninklijke Brill NV, 2021)Centralized rule has been common in Africa, and almost all African countries implemented, constitutionally or otherwise, programs of centralization from the time they achieved independence from colonial rule. They did ... -
Multiparty democracy in Zimbabwe after the adoption of the 2013 constitution
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Zimbabwe adopted a new Constitution in 2013 which, among other objectives, sought to give greater legitimacy to multiparty democracy. This Constitution strengthens the role of an independent electoral commission, entrenches ...
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