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Announcements, news and events by IAWL.
Pioneer African Women in Law
A digital archive of pioneer and trailblazing women in law across Africa.
African Women in Law
Aug 5, 20201 min read
Unveiling Subalternity: Women and the Legal Professions Across Africa
Unveiling Subalternity: Women and the Legal Professions Across Africa
African Women in Law
Jul 27, 20202 min read
COVID-19: Shifting Dynamics of Women’s Realities and Women’s Rights
A feminist world after COVID-19 is possible if we take the lessons from state responses to improve implementation of women’s rights.
African Women in Law
Apr 14, 20203 min read
Women, Justice, and Law Series: The Feminine Face of COVID-19
The Women, Justice and Law COVID-19 Series discusses the intersectional implications of the pandemic on women.
African Women in Law
Apr 3, 20201 min read
Engaging Judiciaries: IAWL Participates in UNODC Judicial Integrity Network Conference in Doha.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Judicial Integrity Network held a High-Level International conference in Doha, Qatar...
African Women in Law
Mar 19, 20203 min read
Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity?
Bauer, Gretchen & Dawuni, Josephine (eds). 2016. Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From obscurity to parity? New York: Routledge...
African Women in Law
Feb 8, 20202 min read
IAWL Participates in UNODC Expert Meeting on Gender-Related Judicial Integrity Issues
Executive Director of the Institute for African Women in Law, Dr. J. Jarpa Dawuni participated in the UNODC Expert Meeting on...
African Women in Law
Feb 8, 20201 min read
Why More Women on the Supreme Court of Ghana Matters: Open Letter to H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Women have made trailblazing contributions to the history of Ghana. Whether it is in the works of Yaa Asantewaa, the unrelenting militant...
African Women in Law
Feb 8, 20208 min read
Beyond the Numbers: Gender Parity on the African Court — A Lesson for African Judiciaries
ON August 27 2018, the newly elected judges on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights were sworn in at the seat of the Court in...
African Women in Law
Feb 8, 20208 min read
The State of Women Judges Across Africa
Judges from Cote D'Ivoire From June 3-7, 2019, women judges across Africa converged in the beautiful city of Abidjan – the capital of...
African Women in Law
Jun 18, 20193 min read
Black Women Ambassadors: Contesting International Gender Hierarchies
(L-R) Dr. Dawuni, Amb. Mulamula, Amb. Chihombori-Quao and Amb. Phillip-Browne In 1991, Charlesworth, Chinkin and Wright’s article on...
African Women in Law
Dec 29, 20184 min read
LEAD Book Launch and Seminar: International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives
On 7 September 2018, the Center for Research on Law, Equity and Diversity (LEAD) at the Faculty of Law at Queen Mary University of...
African Women in Law
Oct 31, 20183 min read
Women and International Courts: Gender, Tokenism or Personal Agency?
On May 7, 2018, the Erasmus University International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and the African Foundation for International Law...
African Women in Law
May 28, 20181 min read
Striking at the Glass Ceiling: A Tale of Seven Judges (and a Lawyer)
** This post was originally published on BLISS: The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. Memories came racing back for...
African Women in Law
May 26, 20185 min read
GLOBAL VOICES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND WOMEN JUDGES
On December 5, 2017, the Wilson Center Women in Public Service Project and the Institute for African Women in Law hosted a panel...
African Women in Law
Apr 8, 20183 min read
International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives
A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the...
African Women in Law
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Achieving Gender Parity in International Courts and Bodies: Does Diversity Matter?
From October 3 to 5 2017, women’s rights advocates, feminist scholars, Ambassadors, Heads of Government, policy practitioners and...
African Women in Law
Feb 3, 20187 min read
Global Voices in International Law: International Courts and Women Judges
On December 5, 2017, Dr. Josephine Jarpa Dawuni, the Executive Director of IAWL organized a panel discussion at the Wilson Center to...
African Women in Law
Dec 30, 20171 min read
Vive la Diversité! A Roadmap to Gender Parity on African Regional Courts?
Read the latest blog cross-posted from the Feminist Critiques of International Courts Symposium. As of May 2017, the African Court on...
African Women in Law
Aug 18, 20178 min read
Race to the top? African women judges and international courts
African women judges are rising in international judicial positions.
African Women in Law
Aug 10, 20165 min read
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