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Access to justice for reproductive and sexual health rights of women through law faculty clinics
(Yinkarec Publishers, Ibadan, 2015) Tafita, F.; Bamgbose, O.
Reproductive and sexual health issues affecting women and girls include sexual abuse, rape, coercion, harassment, sexually-transmitted infections, unsafe sex, unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion, infertility and inability to regulate fertility or negotiate sex. These are most often considered private and confidential, and victims may not desire or require the formalities and exposure of regular courts. The pro-bono legal clinics without resort to the regular courts or litigation, particularly in the resolution of issues affecting women’s reproductive and sexual health rights, is another form of access to justice. The employment of a plural normative system of resolving dispute in African lives and society remains crucial to engendering and ensuring access to justice for women. This paper discusses the concept of access to justice for women in matters affecting their reproductive and sexual health rights. It espouses the role and strategies employed by the Women’s Law Clinic, University of Ibadan in ensuring access to justice for indigent women in Ibadan area of Oyo State of Nigeria whose reproductive and sexual health rights have been violated or threatened. It concludes on the premise that access to justice against violations of reproductive and sexual health rights starts with the initiation of processes for recognition and awareness of these rights. The paper also discusses factors affecting access to justice and remedies against violations of these rights. This paper is based on a desktop and empirical research.
Access to justice through clinical legal education: a way forward for good governance and development
(Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria, 2015) Bamgbose, O.
Access to justice is a fundamental right that ought to be universal, but a lack of effective access to justice is frequently identified as a major barrier to realising human rights. This relates especially to women. Nigerian women are not sufficiently protected by the legal system. Women in Africa, generally, and in Nigeria, in particular, face numerous barriers that hinder their access to legal services and assistance from legal institutions that are set up to redress wrongs. Under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, it is the duty of government to ensure that all citizens have access to justice. Legal aid clinics have in the last decade developed alongside other governmental legal services. The article discusses the evolution of legal clinics in educational institutions and by non-governmental organisations in Nigeria and focuses in particular on how access to justice through the intervention of the Women’s Law Clinic, University of Ibadan, has impacted on governance and development
The cane, the pain and the punishment: corporal punishment in perspective
(Legal blitz, 2015) Bamgbose, O.
Case review: Rasheed Aminu V. the State
(2009) Bamgbose, O.
Chibok girls abduction, major setback to national development
(Oodua News, 2014-05-30) Bamgbose, O.
Child trafficking: a trans- border journey of hope to hopelessness
(His Lineage Publishing, Ibadan, 2011) Bamgbose, O.
Child trafficking is a contemporary form of slave trade. Slave trade, a practice that has been abolished in all countries worldwide has resurfaced in the form of child trafficking, the system changing from forced abduction in the slave trade practice as a result of wars and raids to a system of deception and false promise to vulnerable persons in trafficking. The end result of both practices is that the victim is not. Child trafficking is transnational in nature because of the involvement of organized syndicate who specialize in trading children from one country to another. Trafficking in children has become a global business, giving huge profit for traffickers and organized syndicates, generating massive human rights violation and causing serious problem for governments. Today trafficking is one of the major concerns of both government and organization active in the migration field and it is a priority for persons working in the area of human rights, health, law enforcement agencies and social services. This article addresses work as a crime cutting across local and international borders, examines its nature, causes, effects and the global efforts to suppress it.
Clinical legal education and cultural relativism- the realities in the 21st century
(Northumbria Law Press, 2014) Bamgbose, O.; Olomola, O.
‘Ubi jus ibi remedium’ is a Latin maxim that means ‘where there is a wrong, there is a remedy’. Human rights are expected to be universal and applicable to every human being. In reality not all rights guaranteed in the International Instruments are applicable in some African societies with different culture, religion and norms. Culture shapes the identity of people generally in Africa and elsewhere thus the issue of Cultural Relativism is germane to the very existence of people of African descent. International Convention and Instruments provide for Women’ Rights generally and particularly the Right to life. The experience in the Women’s Law Clinic (the clinic) of the University of Ibadan has shown the imbalance between Clinical Legal Education (CLE) and the realities in practice. This paper considers the cultural practices in some societies in Nigeria, the techniques of CLE adopted in the clinic and the challenges of the 21st Century.
Collaborating with other disciplines: best practice for legal clinics - a case study of the women’s law clinic, University of Ibadan Nigeria
(2013) Olomola, O.; Bamgbose, O.
There is a gradual shift in research towards a multi-disciplinary approach. This paradigm move is in compliance with globalization. According to Carla Mariano, the human service professions are facing problems so complex that no one discipline can possibly respond to them effectively. It has been noted that many clients in the Women’s Law Clinic (WLC) of the University of Ibadan not only have problems tagged as legal, but problems closely related to other disciplines such as psychology, sociology, medicine, counselling and social works. It was therefore so obvious that the clinic was not an island; it could not exist all alone and effectively find a holistic solution to the all embracing problems presented by the clients. The clinic therefore partnered with other departments/units to achieve its goals.
Collapsed buildings sagas: liabilities under the criminal law
(2015-12-10) Bamgbose, O.
Community lawyering- An intervention of the University of Ibadan women's law clinic in the case of stray bullet killings at Arulogun Idi-omo community: A case study
(Nulai Nigeria, 2012) Olomola, O.; Olaleye, F.; Bamgbose, O.
Community service order as an alternative to prison sentence
(2013) Bamgbose, O.
Coping with accommodation stress by female students in Nigerian Universities
(2001) Bamgbose, O.
Female students in Nigerian Universities face some problems. Some of the problems are peculiar to them. The problems include erratic power failure, inadequate supply of water, over-crowding, poor facilities and poor and inadequate transport facilities. The female students have devised coping strategies to deal with the problems. These include, the use of lamps and candles, using independent contractors to carry out repairs, and personal acquisition of some amenities. This has its effects, which include frequent students unrest, anti-social behavior, fire outbreak and health hazards. The paper recommends that adequate funding, provision of good transport facilities and the establishment of an efficient housing bureau are ways of finding a solution to the problems.
Crime detection methods and health implications: forensic science versus the traditional African legal system
(Africa World Press, New Jersey, 2005) Bamgbose, O.
Criminal responsibility in the era of international criminal court: history, jurisdiction, prospects and challenges
(Nigerian Coalition on the International Criminal Court, 2008) Bamgbose, O.
A critical examination of legal aid in Nigeria
(Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, 1996) Bamgbose, O.
Cultural reflections in the Nigerian penal system
(Florence and Lambert Publishers, Lagos, 2003) Bamgbose, O.
Customary law practices and violence against women: the position under the Nigerian legal system
(Department of Women and Gender Studies, Kampala, Uganda, 2006) Bamgbose, O.
The different faces of rapes: a jurisdictional issue
(2021) Bamgbose, O.
Dispute settlement under the yoruba culture; lessons for the criminal justice system
(Carolina Academic Press, Durham, 2006) Bamgbose, O.
The dynamics of street law community awareness: revisiting the syllabus of clinical education in Nigeria
(2016) Olomola, O.; Bamgbose, O.