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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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2009

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Sub-Saharan Africa

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Violated: Women’S Human Rights In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kathryn Birdwell Wester Jan 2009

Violated: Women’S Human Rights In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kathryn Birdwell Wester

Human Rights & Human Welfare

In contemporary sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), women are facing human rights abuses unparalleled elsewhere in the world. Despite the region’s diversity, its female inhabitants largely share experiences of sexual discrimination and abuse, intimate violence, political marginalization, and economic deprivation.