From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights

Offering a comparative study of South Africa and Afghanistan as its basis, this book explores key questions about women's rights and gender equality in the wake of political turmoil, demographic dislocation, institutionalized violence, and deep economic disparities. These questions focus on the balancing and enforcement of secular rights within societies with deeply entrenched cultural and religious mores, and examine the competing claims of individual rights on the one hand and community concerns or imperatives on the other.