Negotiating the power of NGOs : women's legal rights in South Africa

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Negotiating the power of NGOs : women's legal rights in South Africa

Title remainder

women's legal rights in South Africa

Statement of responsibility

Reem Wael (HarassMap, Egypt, Africa)

Title variation

Negotiating the power of non-governmental organizations

Creator

• Wael, Reem

Author

• Wael, Reem

Subject

• Non-governmental organizations -- Law and legislation
• Non-governmental organizations -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
• Sexual harassment -- Law and legislation
• Sexual harassment -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
• South Africa
• Women -- Violence against
• Women -- Violence against -- South Africa
• Women's rights
• Women's rights -- South Africa
• Justice, Administration of
• Justice, Administration of -- South Africa

Language

eng

Summary

This book focuses on the socio-political environment that allows for the impactful work of NGOs through their proximity to local communities. The book showcases how this space has helped South African women's rights NGOs to bring about crucial legal reforms, which are quite relevant to women's lived realities. Recognizing its limitations, the South African state encourages NGOs to work freely on the ground and with state institutions to ameliorate the conditions for women's rights. The outcome of this state-NGO dynamic can be seen in the numerous human rights gains achieved by NGOs in general, and by women's rights organizations specifically. In addition, vulnerable communities such as women living under customary law have a significantly better chance to access justice. The book then demonstrates the opposite scenario, using Egypt as a case study, where NGOs are viewed as a national threat, and consequently operate under restrictive rules

Member of

• Cambridge studies in law and society

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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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Cambridge studies in law and society