Human Rights of Women under Cameroonian Customary Law: The Need for Change
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چکیده
Human Rights are those rights which inherent in our nature and without we cannot live as human beings. The sad fact remains that despite the guarantee of by Constitution Cameroon international treaties, female half humanity subject to distinctive continuous forms abuses, injustice violence well an enormous range legal disabilities discrimination. Our findings revealed most abuses against women perpetuated under customary law men who see themselves more superior than women. These take form domestic torture, refusal right inheritance, control ownership landed property, ignoring woman’s consent before marriage, infant betrothal, shaving hair sleeping on floor a widow after death husband, genital mutilation above all, asking drink water was used wash her husband’s corpse bid prove innocence she did not killed husband. We consider all these dehumanizing moreover woman ceases legally be person upon marriage. Her personality is thus submerged into husband becomes property. life unfulfilled many ways they have accepted this natural way life. There need for change. This possible through careful study implementation Government recommendations suggested write-up.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International journal of social science and human research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2644-0695', '2644-0679']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i6-24