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Support Ogoni people attacked for defending their territory against oil

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) is ...

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Tunisia: Women working in agriculture lack secure transportation to work

Women working in agriculture in Tunisia continue to face serious risks as a result of unsafe transportation to their places of work, sometimes leading to deadly accidents. On Monday, 36 women working in the agricultural sector were injured in an accident during travel to their...

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10
Oct
2017

Fighting human rights impacts of dams in the Amazon: a conversation with Antonia Melo

Screening of “Belo Monte: After the Flood” by Todd Southgate.

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Contributing to a growing women’s rights movement in the Asia Pacific region

Via participation of several member representatives and several workshops, ESCR-Net participated in the Asia-Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) which took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand, between 6-9 September 2017.

Organized by the...

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Nombuyiselo Sihlongonyane v. Mholi Joseph Sihlongonyane, (470/2013A) [2013]

Swaziland High Court advances women's property rights

Nombuyiselo Sihlongonyane and Mholi Joseph were married under civil rites and in community of property.[1] In January 2013, on the basis of her husband’s infidelity and mismanagement of their estate, Sihlongonyane applied to the High Court of Swaziland (High Court) to have her husband removed as the administrator of their joint property.

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The Attorney-General v. Mary-Joyce Doo Aphane, (2010) SZSC 32

Swaziland Supreme Court advances women's property rights

Mary-Joyce Doo Aphane, a woman’s rights activist, commenced legal proceedings in the High Court of Swaziland (High Court) against the Registrar of Deeds, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, and the Attorney General, arguing that Section 16(3) of the Deeds Registry Act, 1968 (Act) violated her constitutional right to equality because it forbids women married in community of property[1] to register immov

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07
Sep
2017

Considering Women’s Rights in relation to Housing, Land and Natural Resources

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The mines and minerals amendment bill: its promises and pitfalls

The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) published this report analyzing their findings after researching the current legal developments in...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
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The Democracy Center co-hosts video conference with activists on the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador

The Democracy Center co-hosted the first of two video conferences with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), as part of their efforts to help document successful campaigns against...

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African Commission grants landmark compensation of US $2.5 million to DRC massacre victims

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo responsible for the 2004 massacre of over 70 people in Kilwa, in the southeast of the country, and granted a landmark compensation of US $2.5 million to the victims and...

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