Introduction: Culture, Human Rights, and Social Work: Colonialism, Eurocentricism, and Afrocentricity
Vishanthie Sewpaul and Linda Kreitzer
Disrupting Popular Discourses on Ilobolo: The Role of Emancipatory Social Work in Engendering Human Rights and Social Justice
Vishanthie Sewpaul, Manqoba Victor Mdamba, and Boitumelo Seepamore
Nigerian Marital Cultural Practices and Implications for Human Rights
Augusta Olaore, Julie Drolet, and Israel Olaore
Socio-Cultural Constructions of Intensive Mothering and Othermothering: Domestic Workers? Experiences of Distance Parenting and their Conceptualization of Motherhood
Boitumelo Seepamore & Vishanthie Sewpaul
Misrecognition of the Rights of People with Epilepsy in Zimbabwe: A Social Justice Perspective
Jacob Mugumbate and Mel Gray
Harmful Cultural Practices against Women and Girls in Ghana: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work
Alice Boateng and Cynthia Sottie
The Intersection of Culture, Religion (Islam) and Women?s Human Rights in Ethiopia: Private Lives in Focus
Yania Seid-Mekiye and Linda Kreitzer
The Implications of a Patriarchal Culture for Women?s Access to ?Formal? Human Rights in South Africa: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Survivors
Shahana Rosool
Child Marriage among the Apostolic Sects in Zimbabwe: Implications for Social Work Practice
Munyaradzi Muchacha, Abel Blessing Matsika, and Tatenda Nhapi
?Everybody Knows This, If You Want to Go to School then You Must Be Prepared to Work?: Children?s Rights and the Role of Social Work in Ghana
Ziblim Abukari
Human Rights and Medicalization of FGM/C in Sudan
Paul Bukuluki
Cultural Dimensions of HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of Alur and Tieng Adhola Cultural Institutions in Uganda
Paul Bukuluki, Ronald Mukuye, Ronald Luwangula, Nnyombi Aloysious, Juliana Naumo, and Eunice Tumwebaze
When National Law and Culture Coalesce: Challenges for Children?s Rights in Botswana with Specific Reference to Corporal Punishment
Poloko Nuggert Ntshwarang and Vishanthie Sewpaul
Conclusion: Emancipatory Social Work, Ubuntu and Afrocentricity: Antidotes to Human Rights Violations
Vishanthie Sewpaul and Linda Kreitzer
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