Litigation and advocacy tool
Subtitle: litigating cases of harmful practices with a focus on female genital mutilation and child marriages
By: Tarisai Mutangi
Publisher: Centre for Human Rights
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9781920538613
Subjects: Women's rights; Women; Legal status, laws; Female circumcision; Law and legislation
Description: This tool is intended to guide litigation and advocacy aimed at ending harmful practices In Africa. The manual is focused on two harmful practices in particular: child marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM), both of which are practices extensively in Africa and which have especially harmful and long term effects. The manual is focused on child marriage and FGM in West and Southern Africa although our hope is that it will also be used to inform advocacy and litigation aimed at ending other harmful practices in countries outside of West and Southern Africa.