AFRICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

Gender at Work in Africa : Legal Constraints and Opportunities for Reform

This article takes a rights-based approach to review women’s economic rights globally and across Africa, to identify systematic constraints to women’s economic empowerment, and suggest key opportunities for reform.

Making the EAC Regime Beneficial to Female Labour Migrants

This article examines how the East African Community’s Common Labour Protocol is not well suited to benefit women and protect the wellbeing of female migrant workers. The EAC has worked toward seeing the free movement of goods, persons, labour, services, and capital between partner states.

Women and Poverty - A Human Rights Approach

Women form the majority world’s poorest people and women in poverty is a complex problem. In this article the author calls for a gendered human rights approach to poverty. The author looks in particular at how, in many countries around the world, the law contributes to women’s poverty, both through legal limitations and customary discrimination.

Sexual Violence, Armed Conflict and International Law in Africa

This article explores the evolution of international law on sexual violence during armed conflict and, in particular, how it has developed within the African region. It begins by analyzing how the law has evolved due to decisions made at the ICTY and the ICTR. The author then argues that the creation of the Charter of the African Union and the Women's Protocol has made a significant contribution to the protection of women against sexual violence in international law. The establishment of the African Court is a further positive step to ensure that states fulfill their obligations