Rashida Manjoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1557700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rashida Manjoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rashida |
| FAMILY NAME | Manjoo |
| SIGNATURE | MANJOO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Closing the Protection Gap Through a Legally Binding cedaw Optional Protocol on Violence against Women and Girls
Highlighting the historical developments of soft law normative standards on violence against women, as reflected in the documents and interpretations of mechanisms of the United Nations system, the article asserts that there is a need to close the protection gap in international law, and address the issues of widespread impunity, lack of accountability and state responsibility failures. An analysis of select treaty-making processes provides an il…
Concluding Reflections from the former UNHRC Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences (2009–15)
This concluding chapter provides an overview of the chapters, as well as briefly highlighting the relevant normative frameworks applicable to the issues addressed in this special edition journal. The gaps in the legally binding instruments governing this area of human rights protection, and the minimal attention to the connection between theory and practice and its resulting consequences, are highlighted by some authors
The Impact of Gender Discrimination on Statelessness
Gender discrimination, both direct and indirect, is a leading cause of statelessness worldwide. Most often, direct discrimination is reflected in patriarchal nationality laws that restrict women’s ability to acquire, retain, and pass on their nationality to their children and/or spouses. There are also many indirect forms of discrimination owing to women’s often subordinate status that can impact women’s (and their children’s) vulnerability to st…
Introduction
My commitment to securing appropriate redress for violations of women’s rights is rooted in many decades of social justice and human rights activism in my home country of South Africa. I was engage
Special Guest Contribution
This article focuses on violence against women as a barrier to the realisation of women's civil, political, economic, social, cultural and developmental rights, as well as the consequences of this for the effective exercise of citizenship. The value of adopting a citizenship lens, identifying the nexus between violence against women and human rights, and adopting an approach that acknowledges the multiplicity, intersectionality and continuity of …
Bridging the Divide’
Continuum of Injustice
State Responsibility to act with Due Diligence in the Elimination of Violence against Women
The mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women has for nearly two decades observed and paid attention to the responsibility of the State in general and to the principle of due diligence in particular. The due diligence standard serves as a tool for rights holders to hold States accountable, by providing an assessment framework for ascertaining what constitutes effective fulfilment of a State’s obligations, and for analysing it…
The Continuum of Violence against Women and the Challenges of Effective Redress
Globally violence against women is a systemic and widespread problem. Despite the recognition of such violence as a violation of human rights, its numerous manifestations and increasing prevalence rates are a source of concern. The mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences has over the eighteen years of its existence examined the phenomena both conceptually and in practice, throug…
Case Study
South Africa is a country that reflects the dilemma and difficulties faced by a developing country which is attempting to achieve gender equality and the protection of women’s human rights in the face of a massive legacy of both racial and gender discrimination and oppression. The promotion of gender equality and the prohibition of gender-based discrimination are addressed in both constitutional and legislative measures, and also separate structu…
Legislative Recognition of Muslim Marriages in South Africa
Both theoretically and constitutionally, South Africa is a secular state with many religious and non-religious groupings co-existing with each other. The reality is that there is widespread observance of both religious and customary law - despite a lack of or limited recognition thereof under the apartheid government. The non-recognition of other forms of law in South Africa has had negative consequences and the remedial efforts of the present go…
Domestic violence support services will fail without agency networking
Victim support groups, victims, the courts, the police and professional agencies must work together, ANSHU PADAYACHEE and RASHIDA MANJOO argue, if strategies for dealing with domestic violence are to work in the interests of the victim. An area of concern is the flawed Prevention of Family Violence Act (1993)
Introduction
My commitment to securing appropriate redress for violations of women’s rights is rooted in many decades of social justice and human rights activism in my home country of South Africa. I was engage
Special Guest Contribution
This article focuses on violence against women as a barrier to the realisation of women's civil, political, economic, social, cultural and developmental rights, as well as the consequences of this for the effective exercise of citizenship. The value of adopting a citizenship lens, identifying the nexus between violence against women and human rights, and adopting an approach that acknowledges the multiplicity, intersectionality and continuity of …
Bridging the Divide’
The Continuum of Violence against Women and the Challenges of Effective Redress
Globally violence against women is a systemic and widespread problem. Despite the recognition of such violence as a violation of human rights, its numerous manifestations and increasing prevalence rates are a source of concern. The mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences has over the eighteen years of its existence examined the phenomena both conceptually and in practice, throug…
Legislative Recognition of Muslim Marriages in South Africa
Both theoretically and constitutionally, South Africa is a secular state with many religious and non-religious groupings co-existing with each other. The reality is that there is widespread observance of both religious and customary law - despite a lack of or limited recognition thereof under the apartheid government. The non-recognition of other forms of law in South Africa has had negative consequences and the remedial efforts of the present go…
Domestic violence support services will fail without agency networking
Victim support groups, victims, the courts, the police and professional agencies must work together, ANSHU PADAYACHEE and RASHIDA MANJOO argue, if strategies for dealing with domestic violence are to work in the interests of the victim. An area of concern is the flawed Prevention of Family Violence Act (1993)
Legislative Recognition of Muslim Marriages in South Africa
Both theoretically and constitutionally, South Africa is a secular state with many religious and non-religious groupings co-existing with each other. The reality is that there is widespread observance of both religious and customary law - despite a lack of or limited recognition thereof under the apartheid government. The non-recognition of other forms of law in South Africa has had negative consequences and the remedial efforts of the present go…
Case Study
South Africa is a country that reflects the dilemma and difficulties faced by a developing country which is attempting to achieve gender equality and the protection of women’s human rights in the face of a massive legacy of both racial and gender discrimination and oppression. The promotion of gender equality and the prohibition of gender-based discrimination are addressed in both constitutional and legislative measures, and also separate structu…
The Continuum of Violence against Women and the Challenges of Effective Redress
Globally violence against women is a systemic and widespread problem. Despite the recognition of such violence as a violation of human rights, its numerous manifestations and increasing prevalence rates are a source of concern. The mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences has over the eighteen years of its existence examined the phenomena both conceptually and in practice, throug…
Continuum of Injustice
State Responsibility to act with Due Diligence in the Elimination of Violence against Women
The mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women has for nearly two decades observed and paid attention to the responsibility of the State in general and to the principle of due diligence in particular. The due diligence standard serves as a tool for rights holders to hold States accountable, by providing an assessment framework for ascertaining what constitutes effective fulfilment of a State’s obligations, and for analysing it…
Bridging the Divide’
Special Guest Contribution
This article focuses on violence against women as a barrier to the realisation of women's civil, political, economic, social, cultural and developmental rights, as well as the consequences of this for the effective exercise of citizenship. The value of adopting a citizenship lens, identifying the nexus between violence against women and human rights, and adopting an approach that acknowledges the multiplicity, intersectionality and continuity of …
Introduction
My commitment to securing appropriate redress for violations of women’s rights is rooted in many decades of social justice and human rights activism in my home country of South Africa. I was engage
Concluding Reflections from the former UNHRC Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences (2009–15)
This concluding chapter provides an overview of the chapters, as well as briefly highlighting the relevant normative frameworks applicable to the issues addressed in this special edition journal. The gaps in the legally binding instruments governing this area of human rights protection, and the minimal attention to the connection between theory and practice and its resulting consequences, are highlighted by some authors
The Impact of Gender Discrimination on Statelessness
Gender discrimination, both direct and indirect, is a leading cause of statelessness worldwide. Most often, direct discrimination is reflected in patriarchal nationality laws that restrict women’s ability to acquire, retain, and pass on their nationality to their children and/or spouses. There are also many indirect forms of discrimination owing to women’s often subordinate status that can impact women’s (and their children’s) vulnerability to st…
Closing the Protection Gap Through a Legally Binding cedaw Optional Protocol on Violence against Women and Girls
Highlighting the historical developments of soft law normative standards on violence against women, as reflected in the documents and interpretations of mechanisms of the United Nations system, the article asserts that there is a need to close the protection gap in international law, and address the issues of widespread impunity, lack of accountability and state responsibility failures. An analysis of select treaty-making processes provides an il…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Human rights (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Human Rights and Development (4 works) · International Human Rights and Reproductive Law (4 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)