Human Rights Intersecting Plural Legalities and Gendered Realities. Drawing on research and micro-level studies of the implementation of gender and human rights principles and laws in Africa, Europe and Asia, this comparative text addresses the failure to deliver projected human rights benefits and [...]

This book approaches law as a process embedded in transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, norms and values. It uses the concept 'living law' to describe the multiplicity of norms manifest in transna[...]