This book on Anglophone Africa is the product of a unique series of collaborative reports between the U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and national-level NGOs around the world.
CRLP and NGOs in have surveyed laws and policies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe with respect to the following issues: * Governmental health and population policies with an emphasis on general issues relating to women's status; * Laws and policies regarding contraception, abortion, sterilization, FGM, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually-transmitted diseases; * Women's status as it relates to: marriage (including divorce and custody), property rights, labor rights, credit, education, and the right to physical integrity; * Reproductive health and rights of adolescents, including segments on female genital mutilation, marriage, sex education, and sexual offenses against minors; * Customary and religious laws regarding women's status.
