Research Catalog

Title

Water is life : women's human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa / edited by Anne Hellum, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, and Barbara van Koppen.

Publication

Harare : Weaver Press in association with the Southern & Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law (SEARCWL) at the University of Zimbabwe ; Oslo : Institute of Women's Law, Child Law and Discrimination Law, Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Hellum, Anne
• Kameri-Mbote, Patricia
• Koppen, B. C. P. van (Barbara C. P.)
• University of Zimbabwe. Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law, issuing body.
• Universitetet i Oslo, issuing body.

Description

xviii, 620 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

North-South legal perspectives series ; no. 6

Uniform Title

North-South legal perspectives series ; no. 6.

Subject

• Water resources development > Law and legislation > Africa, Southern
• Women's rights > Africa, Southern
• Water resources development > Law and legislation > Africa, Eastern
• Women's rights > Africa, Eastern
• Water rights
• water rights
• Water resources development > Law and legislation
• Women's rights
• Eastern Africa
• Southern Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part I Introduction -- 1. The human right to water and sanitation in a legal pluralist landscape : perspectives of southern and eastern African women / Anne Hellum, Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Barbara van Koppen -- 2. Turning the tide : engendering the human right to water and sanitation / Anne Hellum, Ingunn Ikdahl and Patricia Kameri-Mbote -- part II. Kenya -- 3. Human rights, gender and water in Kenya : law, prospects and challenges / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Francis Kariuki -- 4. Not so Rosy : Farm workers' right to water in the Lake Naivasha Basin / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Edna Odhiambo -- 5. Watered down : gender and the human right to water and reasonable sanitation in Mathare, Nairobi / Celestine Nyamu Musembi -- 6. Gender dimensions of customary water resource governance : Marakwet case study / Elizabeth Gachenga -- part III. Malawi -- 7. The political economy of the human right to water and women in Malawi / Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa -- 8. Women's right to water and participation in practice : insights from urban local water governance systems / Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Michael Chasukwa and Timothy Chirwa -- 9. Primary actors on the back seat : gender, human rights and rural water governance in Malawi : lessons from Mpemba and Chileka / Michael Chasukwa, Ngeyi Ruth Kanyongolo, Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza and Timothy Chirwa -- part IV. Zimbabwe -- 10. Governance, gender equality and the right to water and sanitation in Zimbabwe : contested norms and institutions in an unstable economic and political terrain / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Ellen Sithole and Elizabeth Rutsate -- 11. Zimbabwe's urban water crisis and its implications for different women : emerging norms and practices in Harare's high density suburbs / Anne Hellum, Ellen Sithole, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate -- 12. Securing rural women's land and water rights : lessons from Domboshawa communal land / Anne Hellum, Bill Derman, Lindiwe Mangwanya and Elizabeth Rutsate -- 13. A hidden presence : women farm workers right to water and sanitation in the aftermath of the fast track land reform / Elizabeth Rutsate, Bill Derman and Anne Hellum -- part V. South Africa -- 14. Fixing the leaks in women's human rights to water : lessons from South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Bill Derman, Barbara Schreiner, Ebenezer Durojaye, and Ngcime Mweso -- 15. Gender-equality in statutory water law : the case of priority general authorizations in South Africa / Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner -- 16. Gender, rights, and the politics of productivity : the case of the Flag Boshielo irrigation scheme, South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Tapela, and Everisto Mapedza -- Appendix 1. International legal documents -- Appendix 2. National legislation and cases.

ISBN

• 9781779222633
• 1779222637
• 9781779222794 (canceled/invalid)
• 1779222793 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015334018

OCLC

• ocn944156410
• 944156410
• SCSB-1839347

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library