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BIBLIOGRAPHY: CASES DOMESTIC COURTS Botswana Attorney-General of Botswana v Unity Dow (2001) AHRLR 99 (Court of Appeal). Kanane v The State (1995) BLR 94 (High Court). Kanane v The State Criminal Appeal 9 of 2003 (2003) 2 BLR 67 (Court of Appeal). Makuto v State (2000) 5 LRC 183 (Court of Appeal). Canada Egan v Canada (1995) 29 CRR (2d) 79 (Supreme Court of Canada). Vriend v Alberta [1998] 1 SCR 493 (Supreme Court of Canada). R v Salituro (1992) 8 CRR (2d) (Supreme Court of Canada). Kenya Mary Rono v Jane Rono and Another, Civil Appeal 66 of 2002 (2005) (Court of Appeal). Mukungu v Republic (2003) 2 EA (Court of Appeal). Malawi Republic v Kadzakumanja Malawi Law Report Vol. 9, pp. 343-345 (1980). Nigeria Abacha v Fawehinmi (2001) AHRLR 172 (Supreme Court of Nigeria). Abacha v Fawehinmi (2001) AHRLR 172 (Supreme Court of Nigeria). Commissioner of Police Katsina State v Amina Lawal and Yahaya Mohammed Case No 9/2002, delivered on 20 March 2003 Sharia Court of Katsina State, Nigeria). Commissioner of Police Sokoto v Safiyyatu Husseini Case No USC/GW/CR/F1/10/01, delivered on 9 October 2001 (Upper Sharia Court of Sokoto State, Nigeria). Festus Odaife and others v Attorney General of the Federation and others (2004) AHRLR 205 (NgHC 2004) High Court of Nigeria. Karimotu Yakubu v Alhaji Paiko (1985) CA/K/80s/85 Court of Appeal of Kaduna State. Lawal Kurami v The State Upper Sharia Court of Appeal of Sokoto State, Nigeria). Mojekwu v Iwuchukwu (2004) 4 SC (Pt II) 1 (Supreme Court of Nigeria). Mokekwu v Mojekwu NWLR 283 (1997) (Court of Appeal, Nigeria). Muojekwo and Others v Ekijeme and Others (2000) 5 NWLR 402 (Court of Appeal, Nigeria). Nzekwu v Nzekwu (1989) 2 NWLR 373 (Supreme Court, Nigeria). Upahar v State (2003) FWLR 1513 (Court of Appeal of Nigeria, Jos Division) Senegal Guengueng and Others v Habré (2002) AHRLR 183, (Cour de Cassation Senegal). 246
South Africa B and Others v Minister of Correctional Services and Others (1997) (12) BCLR 1696 (High Court). Bhe v The Magistrate Khayelitsha and Others 2005 (1) BCLR 1 (Constitutional Court). Brink v Kitshoff 1996 (4) BCLR 441 (Constitutional Court of South Africa). Carmichelle v Minister of Safety and Security and Another 2001 (4) SA 938 (Constitutional Court). Christian Lawyers’ Association of South Africa v Minister of Health 1998 (11) BCLR 1434 (High Court). Christian Lawyers’ Association v Minister of Health 2004 (10) BCLR 1086 (High Court). De Reuck v Director of Public Prosecutions 2004 (1) SA 406 (Constitutional Court). Du Plessis v De Klerk 1996 (3) SA 850 (Constitutional Court). Du Plessis v Road Accident Fund 2004 (1) SA 359 (Supreme Court of Appeal). Du Toit and Another v Minister of Welfare and Population Development and Others (Lesbian and Gay Equality Project as Amicus Curiae) 2003 (2) SA 198 (Constitutional Court). EN and Others v The Government of South Africa and Others, Unreported case No 4567/06 (2006) (High Court). Farr v Mutual & Federal Insurance Co Ltd 2000 (3) SA 684 (High Court). Fraser v Children’s Court, Pretoria North 1997 (2) BCLR 153 (Constitutional Court of South Africa). Geldenhuys v The State (2008) ZACC 21 (Supreme Court of Appeal). Gory v Kolver NO and Others (Starke and Others Intervening) 2007 (4) SA 89 (Constitutional Court). Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others v Grootboom and Others 2000 (11) BCLR 1169 (Constitutional Court). Government of the Republic of South Africa v Basdeo and Another 1996 (1) 355 (Appellate Division, now Supreme Court of Appeal). Grobler v Naspers Bpk & Another (2004) 5 BLLR 455 (Labour Court). Harksen v Lane 1997 (11) BCLR 1489 (Constitutional Court). Hoffman v South African Airways 2001 (1) SA 1 (Constitutional Court). J and Another v Director General, Department of Home Affairs, and Others 2003 (5) SA 621 (Constitutional Court of South Africa). J v M Ltd (1989) 10 ILJ 755 (Industrial Court of South Africa). Jordan and Others v The State 2002 (6) SA 642 (Constitutional Court). Khosa and Others and Minister of Social Development and Others 2004 (6) SA 505 (Constitutional Court). Knop v Johannesburg City Council 1995 (2) SA 1 (Appellate Division, now Supreme Court of Appeal). Langemaat v Minister of Safety and Security and Others 1998 (3) SA 312 (High Court). Larbi-Odam and Others v MEC for Education (North-West Province) and Another 1997 (12) BCLR 1655 (Constitutional Court). Mashia Ebrahim v Mahomed Essop 1905 TS 59 (Transvaal Supreme Court). 247
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SEXUAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN T
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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4.9 Marriage and Sexual Orientation
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9.2 Equality and Non-discrimination
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the Universal Declaration and the C
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3.3 Ages of consent to sexual activ
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and the Sexual Offences Act of Sout
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10.3 Though access to contraceptive
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1 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY 1.1 Int
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epresentative. Cameroon and Nigeria
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1.5 African Regional Human Rights S
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• receive information; 18 • bes
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provisions of the African Charter,
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[15] The Protocol to the African Ch
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and the International Covenant on E
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Though Africa has, at least, fourte
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Community has largely not been acti
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said that while the requirement of
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eproductive autonomy. The fact that
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Cairo and Beijing Conferences. 96 C
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the Treaty and to adjudicate disput
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elimination of conflicts, and that
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anchored in development, New Partne
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In respect of the assumption by col
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It is significant that the above ob
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(1) In the interpretation of all la
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primogeniture rule was a violation
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Islamic Shari’ah has become an im
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1.17 Conclusions [62] The African C
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2 EQUALITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION 2
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• Covenant on Economic, Social an
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Shar’iah leave no room for compat
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The Commission shall also take into
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d) take corrective and positive act
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their children that were born durin
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The Court said that, as far as poss
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We, people of Cameroon, Declare tha
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with respect to that matter which i
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(i) to a fair disposition of proper
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article 7 of the Universal Declarat
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[37] On their own, inheritance or s
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• clearly situate equality and no
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ape. In Fraser v Children’s Court
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2.8 Marital Status and African Char
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[52] The Court said that in giving
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[59] The decision of the Constituti
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Rights ought to be interpreted to p
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[68] It is not just in constitution
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Benin 295 and Burkina Faso 296 Guin
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Botswana in Kanane v The State, 310
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orientation is a protected status i
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[85] In reaching its conclusion tha
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legally sanctified heterosexual heg
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[95] South Africa provides an excep
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[99] Though sexual harassment is a
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(1) Sexual harassment may include u
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the workplaces. The scope of Zimbab
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3 PENALIZATION OF SEXUALITY AND SEX
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him, or attempts to procure the com
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care services, employment, or educa
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Special Provisions Act of 1998 394
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[25] The appellant appealed against
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and female victims. Sixteen years i
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[38] The other side of the argument
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een conducted to ascertain whether
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transmission, the Acts seek to: 1)
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HIV to another person as doing some
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Section 80 of the Zimbabwean Crimin
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4 REGULATION OF MARRIAGE AND THE FA
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of marriage to be eighteen years an
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legislation which sought to reflect
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[16] On the one hand, the Ugandan C
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Offences Act of 1998, prescribes 18
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Though a dying practice, leviratic
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[35] The Women’s Convention requi
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therefore, invalid under the Consti
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of gay and lesbian couples, paved t
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Safiyyatu Husseini 534 an alleged a
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5 VIOLENCE: SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND GEN
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5.2 SEXUAL VIOLENCE: REGIONAL FRAME
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the southern part of Nigeria is rep
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without her consent involving penet
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definition of rape should extend in
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human dignity, privacy and freedom
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A male person commits the offence o
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and if accepted concludes the matte
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developing the common law or custom
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internal security of the Republic.
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constitutional norm of separation o
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Children’s Charter, specifically,
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(e) maintains or hires a person to
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and coordinating with other domesti
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psychological abuse; economic abuse
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time, the Zimbabwean Act is differe
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5.11 Female Genital Mutilation: Pre
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cause prolapsed and vaginal fistula
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way of inference, are even more rea
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