Charles G Ngwena
Biographic Data
| ID | 8521024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles G Ngwena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles G |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngwena |
| SIGNATURE | NGWENA C G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taking Women's Rights Seriously
This article is constructed around the premise that women's rights to safe abortion give rise to obligations that the state has a positive duty to implement. Using Uganda as a case study, it frames failure by a state to implement its abortion laws in ways that render the rights tangible and accessible to women as a violation of human rights. The article develops a normative human rights framework for imposing on a state the obligation to take pos…
Conscientious Objection to Abortion and Accommodating Women's Reproductive Health Rights
If applied in isolation from the fundamental rights of women seeking abortion services, the right to conscientious objection can render any given rights to abortion illusory, including the rights to health, life, equality and dignity that are attendant to abortion. A transformative understanding of human rights requires that the right to conscientious objection to abortion be construed in a manner that is subject to the correlative duties which a…
A Commentary on LC v Peru
In LC v Peru , the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women held that Peru was in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women when it denied a 13 year old girl emergency surgery as well as an abortion. This commentary discusses the human rights significance of LC v Peru , especially in relation to the advancement of abortion jurisprudence in the African region.…
Developing Regional Abortion Jurisprudence
This article is constructed around an appraisal of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B and C v. Ireland. It seeks to extrapolate comparative lessons for African Charter organs for the development of regional jurisprudence on abortion. It is argued that the A, B and C decision offers positive as well as negative lessons. The positive lessons lie in the holding of the European Court that at a procedural level, domestic aborti…
Human Right to Inclusive Education
Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a human rights milestone in the recognition of the right of disabled learners to inclusive education. This article explores domestic commitment towards the obligation of the State to provide inclusive education under Article 24 of the Convention. It uses South Africa as a case study. More specifically, the article uses the decision of the Western Cape High Court in Western…
Hiv/Aids, Pregnancy and Reproductive Autonomy
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Hiv/Aids, Pregnancy and Reproductive Autonomy
A Commentary on LC v Peru
In LC v Peru , the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women held that Peru was in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women when it denied a 13 year old girl emergency surgery as well as an abortion. This commentary discusses the human rights significance of LC v Peru , especially in relation to the advancement of abortion jurisprudence in the African region.…
Developing Regional Abortion Jurisprudence
This article is constructed around an appraisal of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B and C v. Ireland. It seeks to extrapolate comparative lessons for African Charter organs for the development of regional jurisprudence on abortion. It is argued that the A, B and C decision offers positive as well as negative lessons. The positive lessons lie in the holding of the European Court that at a procedural level, domestic aborti…
Human Right to Inclusive Education
Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a human rights milestone in the recognition of the right of disabled learners to inclusive education. This article explores domestic commitment towards the obligation of the State to provide inclusive education under Article 24 of the Convention. It uses South Africa as a case study. More specifically, the article uses the decision of the Western Cape High Court in Western…
Conscientious Objection to Abortion and Accommodating Women's Reproductive Health Rights
If applied in isolation from the fundamental rights of women seeking abortion services, the right to conscientious objection can render any given rights to abortion illusory, including the rights to health, life, equality and dignity that are attendant to abortion. A transformative understanding of human rights requires that the right to conscientious objection to abortion be construed in a manner that is subject to the correlative duties which a…
Taking Women's Rights Seriously
This article is constructed around the premise that women's rights to safe abortion give rise to obligations that the state has a positive duty to implement. Using Uganda as a case study, it frames failure by a state to implement its abortion laws in ways that render the rights tangible and accessible to women as a violation of human rights. The article develops a normative human rights framework for imposing on a state the obligation to take pos…
Human Rights and Development (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Human rights (5 works) · Abortion (4 works) · International Human Rights and Reproductive Law (3 works) · International human rights law (3 works) · Jurisprudence (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Fundamental rights (2 works)