Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2010
Rights
Abstract
L'Association des Femmes Juristes Sénégalaises (The Association of Senegalese Women Lawyers) has been working to improve the lives of women in Senegal for almost forty years. In a predominantly Muslim country where most women do not even attend high school, these women have used their legal skills to make change. With little money, no paid attorneys on staff, and using a borrowed room in a law firm as an office, they have successfully pushed the government to make positive changes in the Family Code and other laws and have played an important role in the development of human rights consciousness in Senegal.
Publication Title
Human Rights Quarterly
First Page
115
Last Page
143
Required Text
Copyright © 2010 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article was first published in Human Rights Quarterly 32.1 (2010), 115–143 Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Recommended Citation
Judy Scales-Trent,
Women Lawyers, Women’s Rights in Senegal: The Association of Senegalese Women Lawyers,
32
Hum. Rts. Q.
115
(2010).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/881