State Responsibility to End Violence Against Women: Case Studies From Collaborative ‘One-Stop-Centers’ in Sub-Saharan Africa (Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology)

This book explores how multisector collaboration approaches in Kenya and South Africa contribute to the fulfilment of human rights state obligations to prevent and effectively respond to sexual violence against women.Applying a feminist human rights perspective, the author unpacks state obligations to exercise due diligence in prevention, protection, prosecution, punishment and provision of adequate remedies to victims.This perspective puts victims’ needs and rights at the forefront in assessing service integration models, while foregrounding the need for state accountability to establish sustainable and effective sexual violence interventions.Using a qualitative case-study approach and interview data, it analyses how sexual violence service integration centers operate in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts .It demonstrates how these multi-sector collaboration approaches can produce different service orientations that may eclipse and de-center the needs and rights of sexual violence v