Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6818410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Innocentia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mgijima-Konopi |
| SIGNATURE | MGIJIMA-KONOPI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | LLM, PhD Candidate, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity South Africa (AFHESA) at Tekano 2021 , Pretoria, South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading gender through lived experiences of albinism in South Africa
Albinism caused by a deficiency of melanin in the body is a non-contagious genetic condition. Because of the paleness of the skin and eyes, persons with albinism experience sensitivity to the sun’s ultraviolet radiation and visual impairment. Recently, albinism has received more global attention by human rights advocates and researchers and nationally in South Africa by democratic inclusive policies because of the social and physical stigmatisati…
Shifting Wrongs to Rights
Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to specific situations rather than as the application of abstract principles. In this paper, scholars and advocates analyse the challenges in the practice of human rights, with a focus on mothers impacted by albini…
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Shifting Wrongs to Rights
Debates about legitimizing human rights in Africa have centred on making universal human rights principles relevant to local social and cultural contexts. Localizing human rights norms requires seeing human rights in terms of relevance to specific situations rather than as the application of abstract principles. In this paper, scholars and advocates analyse the challenges in the practice of human rights, with a focus on mothers impacted by albini…
Reading gender through lived experiences of albinism in South Africa
Albinism caused by a deficiency of melanin in the body is a non-contagious genetic condition. Because of the paleness of the skin and eyes, persons with albinism experience sensitivity to the sun’s ultraviolet radiation and visual impairment. Recently, albinism has received more global attention by human rights advocates and researchers and nationally in South Africa by democratic inclusive policies because of the social and physical stigmatisati…
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Albinism (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Critical discourse analysis (1 work) · Discourse analysis (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Feminism (1 work) · Gender discrimination (1 work)