Negotiating the Power of NGOs: Women's Legal Rights in South Africa by Reem Wael

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The book mixes theoretical and practical perspectives, providing analysis for crucial impact litigation cases on women's rights, in addition to intricate insights from NGO staff members who have first-hand experience with both women, and state institutions. It further demonstrates the enabling factors that allow NGOs to do such impactful work.

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This book focuses on the socio-political environment that allows for the impactful work of NGOs through their proximity to local communities. The book showcases how this space has helped South African women's rights NGOs to bring about crucial legal reforms, which are quite relevant to women's lived realities. Recognizing its limitations, the South African state encourages NGOs to work freely on the ground and with state institutions to ameliorate the conditions for women's rights. The outcome of this state-NGO dynamic can be seen in the numerous human rights gains achieved by NGOs in general, and by women's rights organizations specifically. In addition, vulnerable communities such as women living under customary law have a significantly better chance to access justice. The book then demonstrates the opposite scenario, using Egypt as a case study, where NGOs are viewed as a national threat, and consequently operate under restrictive rules.

Author Biography

Reem Wael is a social science researcher with a geographic focus on the Middle East and Africa. She co-founded the first gender consulting firm in the Middle East to focus on research and policy, trainings and media; she worked on numerous research projects on gender cross-cutting with health, education, data and information, law, and violence. In her most recent fulltime position, Reem was the Executive Director of HarassMap, an NGO based in Egypt, using an online-offline integrated approach to end social acceptability of sexual harassment in Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, where she conducted socio-legal analysis on gender-based violence in South Africa.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. South Africa: formal law and the constitution; 3. Informal justice: a favourable alternative?; 4. From politics to law-making: NGOs and the state in South Africa; 5. The justice system: space for negotiating human rights; 6. The art of litigation: tactics and impact; 7. Access to justice and NGOs: awareness, guidance and empowerment; 8. Disabling factors for socio-legal development: insights from Egypt; 9. Conclusion.

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Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women's rights in South Africa.

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Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women's rights in South Africa.

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The book mixes theoretical and practical perspectives, providing analysis for crucial impact litigation cases on women's rights, in addition to intricate insights from NGO staff members who have first-hand experience with both women, and state institutions. It further demonstrates the enabling factors that allow NGOs to do such impactful work.

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The book mixes theoretical and practical perspectives, providing analysis for crucial impact litigation cases on women's rights, in addition to intricate insights from NGO staff members who have first-hand experience with both women, and state institutions. It further demonstrates the enabling factors that allow NGOs to do such impactful work.

Details ISBN1108475132 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1108475132 ISBN-13 9781108475136 Format Hardcover Author Reem Wael Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 360 Publication Date 2019-04-11 DEWEY 340.115 Series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Subtitle Women's Legal Rights in South Africa Short Title Negotiating the Power of NGOs Language English UK Release Date 2019-04-11 AU Release Date 2019-04-11 NZ Release Date 2019-04-11 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Tables, black and white Alternative 9781108566339 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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