Adjudicating African Women's Rights by Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom
The book provides valuable insights into the landscape of women's rights in West Africa through the transformative decisions made by the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court). Originally established to foster socio-economic integration, the ECOWAS Court has evolved into Africa's premier regional human rights court. With nearly 90% of its decisions addressing human rights issues, the ECOWAS Court now surpasses the African Commission – the continent's longest-standing human rights body – in the number of human rights cases it handles. It offers a compelling analysis of the ECOWAS Court's women's rights jurisprudence, an often-overlooked but essential aspect of the Court's human rights mandate. Grounded in the due diligence principle and the Maputo Protocol, the book sheds light on how adjudicating women's rights cases promotes the global gender equality agenda and challenges state actions that undermine human rights.
Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom is a Senior Lecturer of Law at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana where she also serves as the Director of Research. She is also a lawyer and an international human rights research and training consultant. She is a Fulbright Scholar.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009758611 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009758616 |
| Title | Adjudicating African Women's Rights |
| Author | Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 235 |
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