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Women in the Rulings of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights

Moving beyond the single story

May 11, 2015 • by Mariana Prandini Assis

After a long battle with the mainstream of human rights discourse and institutions dating from at least the era of the League of Nations, feminists organized in a transnational movement [1] have succeeded in placing women’s issues at the centre of human rights debates.

Here I want to take a step back ...

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