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Chapter 1: Harmful practices as a human rights challenge.- Chapter 2: International and regional norms on harmful practices.- Chapter 3: Widowhood practices and human rights in Nigeria.- Chapter 4: Beyond the legal debates: An African legal feminist response to support victims of ukuthwala in South Africa.- Chapter 5: Cultural relativism versus universalism: a critical analysis of the chinamwari/khomba practice in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6: The conundrum of exchange of bride wealth in customary marriages: is it a harmful practice?.- Chapter 7: Tobacco-related harms & gender: An overview with perspectives from India.- Chapter 8: Child marriage in the United States: A human rights and feminist perspective.- Chapter 9: Intimate partner violence, gender vulnerability and the realisation of women’s fundamental rights in Australia.- Chapter 10: The protection of human trafficking victims in the UK: The role of the Palermo Protocol and state obligations in the international law.- Chapter 11: An African feminist analysis of the impact of menstrual taboos in Abrahamic religions on women and girls in Africa.- Chapter 12: Punishing pregnant students through expulsion from school: A case study of Uganda.- Chapter 13: Engaging harmful traditional practices from a supranational perspective: Reflections from the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.- Chapter 14: Cultivating agency and claiming bodily autonomy: A response to the politics of child marriage in the African context.

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: 13/07/2025
      ISBN13: 9783031903328, 978-3031903328
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      Chapter 1: Harmful practices as a human rights challenge.- Chapter 2: International and regional norms on harmful practices.- Chapter 3: Widowhood practices and human rights in Nigeria.- Chapter 4: Beyond the legal debates: An African legal feminist response to support victims of ukuthwala in South Africa.- Chapter 5: Cultural relativism versus universalism: a critical analysis of the chinamwari/khomba practice in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6: The conundrum of exchange of bride wealth in customary marriages: is it a harmful practice?.- Chapter 7: Tobacco-related harms & gender: An overview with perspectives from India.- Chapter 8: Child marriage in the United States: A human rights and feminist perspective.- Chapter 9: Intimate partner violence, gender vulnerability and the realisation of women’s fundamental rights in Australia.- Chapter 10: The protection of human trafficking victims in the UK: The role of the Palermo Protocol and state obligations in the international law.- Chapter 11: An African feminist analysis of the impact of menstrual taboos in Abrahamic religions on women and girls in Africa.- Chapter 12: Punishing pregnant students through expulsion from school: A case study of Uganda.- Chapter 13: Engaging harmful traditional practices from a supranational perspective: Reflections from the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.- Chapter 14: Cultivating agency and claiming bodily autonomy: A response to the politics of child marriage in the African context.

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