Worlds of Human Rights

Bill Derman, Ph.D. (1969), University of Michigan, is Professor of International and Environment Development Studies, Norwegian University of the Life Sciences. He has published many articles on contestations over land and water and human rights in southern Africa.Anne Hellum, Dr.juris 1998, University of Oslo, Professor, Department of Public and International Law and Director of the Institute of Women's Law, Child Law, Discrimination and Equality Law. She has published widely on women's human rights and legal pluralism in Africa with the focus on reproduction, land and water.Kristin Bergtora Sandvik,S.J.D Harvard Law School 2008, is a senior researcher at PRIO, and the head of the Norwegian Center for Humanitarian Studies. Her widely published work on Uganda and Colombia takes a socio-legal approach to the study of international law and the humanitarian enterprise.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter IIntroduction: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Rights Claiming on the African continentPart I Land, Property and Human RightsChapter 2Introduction by Bill DermanChapter 3Land Rights, Human Rights and Development: Contestations in Land Restitution, Limpopo Province, South Africa by Bill Derman, Anne Hellum and Tshililo ManenzheChapter 4‘Property’ and ‘rights’ in a South African land claim case by Knut G NustadChapter 5'We agreed to move, but we did not do so freely'. Resettlement from the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique by Marja SpierenburgPart II Human rights in a gendered, relational and plural legal landscapeChapter 6Introduction: by Anne HellumChapter 7Engendering the South African land restitution process: balancing group rights and individual rights by Anne Hellum and Bill DermanChapter 8Multiple threats, manifold strategies: Women, the state and secure tenure at the interface of human rights and local practices in Dar es Salaam by Ingunn IkdahlChapter 9Coercive Harmony?: Realizing Women’s Rights Through Alternative Dispute Resolution in Dar es Salaam’s Legal Aid Clinics by Natalie J. BourdonChapter 10 Translating Women’s Rights in Niger: What Happened to the “Radical Challenge to Patriarchy?”by Kari Bergstrom HenquinetPart III The Multiple Tracks of Human Rights and Humanitarianism Chapter 11 Introduction by Kristin Sandvik Chapter 12 Rights-Based Humanitarianism as Emancipation or Stratification? Rumors and Procedures of Verification in Urban Refugee Management in Kampala, Uganda by Kristin Bergtora SandvikChapter 13 Emergent Eritrean Human Rights Movements: Politics, Law, and Culture in Transnational Perspective by Tricia Redeker HepnerChapter 14 Malawi’s Orphans: Children’s Rights in Relation to Humanitarianism, Compassion, and Childcare by Andrea FreidusAbout the AuthorsIndex