Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa: Country and Regional Perspectives
About this ebook
This first of it's kind book foregrounds the work of African scholars and presents careful research analysis and case studies that consider sexual harassment from legal, socio-economic, and cultural realities. It highlights the importance of laws around sexual harassment in Africa, the intersectional challenges it poses to women in the workplace, and the role of the feminist movement in Africa to hold perpetrators accountable and give voice to survivors of sexual harassment. The book forms part of a broader African-driven research initiative on sexual harassment and the law and is written in partnership with the Africa End Sexual Harassment Initiative (AESHI). It also explores the need to focus on best-practice benchmarks for Africa and also learning from developments in Africa.
Timely and relevant, the book will be of great interest to legal and policy academic scholars, professionals, and activists working in the fields of gender policy, forensic psychology, and NGOs. It will also be useful reading for postgraduate students of law, gender studies, political science, and African studies.
About the author
Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme is the founder of Africa End Sexual Harassment Initiative (AESHI) and is a Georgetown Law LAWA Fellow specialising in women’s rights in Africa. Furaha sits on the Editorial Board of the Berkeley University Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE) and is an LLM Advisory Committee member of the Georgetown Journal of International Law (GJIL).
Carol Chi Ngang is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Law, National University of Lesotho, Research Fellow at the Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State and a Guest Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. He is the UNDP Human Rights Research Chair for Lesotho and a National Research Foundation of South Africa Category C2-rated Researcher.
Graham Towl is Professor of Forensic Psychology at Durham University, UK. He was the Pro Vice Chancellor Chair of the influential Durham University Sexual Violence Task Force in 2015/2016 and has co-written several books addressing sexual violence at universities in the UK. As a practitioner psychologist he has worked with sex offenders and victim survivors of sexual violence.
