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‘Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach’ – Days 2 & 3

‘Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach’ – Days 2 & 3

...audience to see the human face behind the headlines of litigation in her thoughtful account of the lessons that can be learnt from the Botswana case of Ramantele v Mmusi....
'Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach' – Days 2 & 3

'Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach' – Days 2 & 3

...audience to see the human face behind the headlines of litigation in her thoughtful account of the lessons that can be learnt from the Botswana case of Ramantele v Mmusi....
‘Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach’ (28-30 April 2014, Kigali, Rwanda)

‘Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach’ (28-30 April 2014, Kigali, Rwanda)

...Mubangizi (University of KwaZulu-Natal)—Gender-related Cultural Practices that Violate Human Rights and Perpetuate Women’s Poverty: An African Perspective Tabeth Masengu, (University of Cape Town)—‘Impoverishing Women; Lessons Learnt from Ramantele v Mmusi...
'Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach' (28-30 April 2014, Kigali, Rwanda)

'Women and Poverty: A Human Rights Approach' (28-30 April 2014, Kigali, Rwanda)

...Mubangizi (University of KwaZulu-Natal)—Gender-related Cultural Practices that Violate Human Rights and Perpetuate Women’s Poverty: An African Perspective Tabeth Masengu, (University of Cape Town)—‘Impoverishing Women; Lessons Learnt from Ramantele v Mmusi...
SAJAP Receives Grant Support from the World Justice Project

SAJAP Receives Grant Support from the World Justice Project

...for assistance in preparing his judgment in Mmusi v Ramantele, a challenge to customary laws which barred women from inheriting. The DGRU forwarded the request to OPBP which supplied Justice...
Inspiring Change Through Law for International Women’s Day

Inspiring Change Through Law for International Women’s Day

...importance of gender equality and to protect women’s socio-economic rights. In Ramantele v Mmusi the Court upheld Edith Mmusi’s and her sisters’ right to inherit their parents’ home, despite a...
Mmusi Ruling a Watershed Moment for Gender and Customary Law in Botswana and Beyond

Mmusi Ruling a Watershed Moment for Gender and Customary Law in Botswana and Beyond

...from her late husband’s estate. Mmusi has lived in her parents’ home until the present day. However, recently her nephew Molefi Ramantele claimed the family home belonged to him. The...
Equal Inheritance Rights for Women in Botswana

Equal Inheritance Rights for Women in Botswana

  The latest decision of the Botswana High Court on inheritance rights in Edith Mmusi v Ramantele is a pivotal step for women in Botswana and Africa as a whole....

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