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Pulling apart? Treatment of pluralism in the CEDAW and the Maputo Protocol
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“Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Ghana and Zimbabwe are some of the countries that have undergone wide-scale constitutional reforms and have removed these exemption clauses, while the constitutions of Botswana, Zambia, and Lesotho still contain these exemption clauses (Nyamu-Musembi 2013, 199-200).”
From The Coloniality and Evolution of African Customary Law (2025) · cites this paper as Nyamu-Musembi 2013, 199-200
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“Postindependence, exemption clauses in equality and non-discrimination provisions of independence constitutions prevented judicial officers from peering into personal codes to strike any customs and practices for discrimination”
From The Coloniality and Evolution of African Customary Law (2025) · cites this paper as Nyamu-Musembi 2013
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“The only countries that have not removed exemption clauses from their constitutions are Zambia, Botswana, and Lesotho - all in Southern Africa”
From The Coloniality and Evolution of African Customary Law (2025) · cites this paper as Nyamu-Musembi 2013, 200
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The Coloniality and Evolution of African Customary Law
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- Authors
- Musembi, C. N.
- Corresponding author
- Musembi, Celestine Nyamu
- Venue
- Women's Human Rights
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2013-07-11
- Pages
- 183-214
- OpenAlex
- W1600682805
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 2.94
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Human Rights and Reproductive Law
- Social Sciences › Law › Discrimination and Equality Law
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
- Keywords
- CEDAW, Maputo Protocol, pluralism, religious freedom, freedom of conscience, human rights treaties, comparative human rights law
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