For Women in Law

This month we chat to Tanveer Jeewa, who is a Mauritian law researcher at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.   Tanveer holds an LLB degree and will be graduating with an LLM in Public Law by the end of 2019. Tanveer is a human rights activist evidenced by her research papers and hands-on work experience. She is also the founder of RefRights in Cape Town, South Africa. RefRights is building a software application for refugees, to alleviate the burden of organizations such as the Refugee Rights Unit. The app will identify the issues of the refugees and then provide them with letters addressed to authorities (with respect to their issues) informing them of the refugeesê rightsãin the process, reducing their travel and wait times and the associated costs.  Below is the interview between For Women in Law (FWIL) and Tanveer Jeewa (TJ).  FWIL: Tell us a little about yourself. (Background, career, interests) TJ: I am a 23 year-old, Mauritian law researcher at the Con

https://www.ososeoboh.com/photostory/2018/2/9/on-the-shoulders-of-our-ancestors Noemi: There is talk of a “girl code” and there are clubs and societies dedicated to “sisterhood” but how do we identify and separate genuine woman empowerment to faux activism? About a year ago I was disappointed to read a series of tweets from a young woman I follow on various social media platforms, about how she avoids working with and befriending women because she feels that women are “problematic”. This is a woman who has built and who coordinates an online platform that is supposedly built on and aimed at women empowerment. No matter how you put it, woman empowerment is (or should be) the act or support of empowering or elevating women and girls. When a woman speaks of or represents woman empowerment, it should mean that they are committed to uplifting other women, supporting other women, fostering relationships with other women and paving the way for other women to succeed. I