What is it about?
It explores the acute challenges that women and girls in the southwestern part of Ethiopia are sustaining due to harmful traditional practices and assesses the adequacy of the measures taken by the government to tackle them.
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Why is it important?
Women and girls are increasingly suffering in the southwestern part of Ethiopia as a result of harmful traditional practices that continue unabated. This has occurred despite the government having ratified the core international human rights instruments, including the CEDAW and the CRC, that require the government to address violence against women and girls, respectively. The study exposed the deficiencies in the measures taken by the government in implementing the treaties and suggested steps that should be taken to ameliorate the shortfalls.
Perspectives
Conducting this study has given me the opportunity to grapple with the deep rooted cultural practices prevalent in the southwestern part of Ethiopia. I am pleased to make some effort to expose the sufferings of women and girls in the area, identify the shortcomings in the government's responses, and provoke further work to be done on the subject.
Mr. Zelalem Shiferaw Woldemichael
Jimma University
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This page is a summary of: Protecting Women and Girls from Harmful Traditional Practices: Evaluating State Responses in the Bench-Maji Zone, Southwest Ethiopia, Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies, January 2018, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/fronjwomestud.39.2.0297.
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