The article examines the concept of illicit sexual behavior in the customary law prevailing among the tribal society of Sierra Leone, on whom the English law has been imposed, and the conflicting definitions of rape in the general (English) law. The mechanisms to resolve sexual violations in ...
Recently interest into the effects of pornography on children and young people’s sexual development has increased leading to an increase in studies in the area, laws being changed and public concern growing. This paper aims to recap these findings including more recent studies carried out in the...
The Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery laws, were also taken to Freetown. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, ...
and around the globe, individuals and organizations are fighting to redefine traditional gender roles, whether it is girls in war-torn Sierra Leone rejecting the cultural norm of female genital mutilation and child marriage, men in Sweden making use of extended paternal leave after having a child,...
These laws were central to the RUF's attempts to manage organisational control and cohesion. This calls for revisiting and revising the 'rape as a weapon of war' framework if it is to have explanatory power for the causes and mechanisms of gender violence in war....
Sanctions, since revoked, this issue was not developed in collaboration with the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor. The ICC has faced criticism for under-representation of non-Western laws, principles, rules, procedures, practices, or traditions in its legal structure and system. To what extent is...
The acts are named for Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading “Townshend Acts”, but five laws are frequently mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of...
Policymakers need to design appropriate interventions, considering the socio-demographic characteristics of children, to curb its occurrence in Ghana.View this article's peer review reports Similar content being viewed by others Early sexual debut among adolescent girls and young women in Sierra Leone: ...
The data for women in senior management positions show that the following countries have a significant proportion of female representation: 52% in the Bahamas, 37% in Australia, 34% in Sierra Leone, 30% in Botswana and 25% in Malaysia, whereas it is 14% in Cyprus and India and 3% in ...
Sanctions, since revoked, this issue was not developed in collaboration with the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor. The ICC has faced criticism for under-representation of non-Western laws, principles, rules, procedures, practices, or traditions in its legal structure and system. To what extent is...