South Africa
Violence against Women
Hijri Unknown-Present (AH); Common Era Unknown-Present (CE)
Rashida Manjoo is one of the world’s top experts and combatants of violence against women. She was the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 2009-2015. This is the key position for analyzing—and condemning—violence against women on an international level. Manjoo is a South African feminist lawyer; she has devoted her career to the area of violence against women, specifically in Algeria, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the Middle East. In South Africa, she served as an Advocate of the High Court and the country's Commission on Gender Equality. Manjoo was a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School in 2006, and now is a professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town. Manjoo founded the Domestic Violence Assistance Programme at the Durban Magistrates Court, as well as the Gender Unit at the Law Clinic at the University of Natal. She is a member of the Women Living Under Muslim Laws Network.
