{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_yikpb64jrn3vvegv2eua","title":"Africa: Ecowas Court and Women's Rights in West Africa - What's Working - and What Isn't","title_en":null,"outlets":3,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/ecowas-court-and-womens-rights-in-west-africa-whats-working-and-what-yikpb64jrn","count":3,"items":[{"id":"n_lens2enxbz7yllt3vjfa","seq":1325488,"kind":"article","title":"Ecowas Court and women's rights in west Africa: what's working – and what isn't","url":"https://www.polity.org.za/article/ecowas-court-and-womens-rights-in-west-africa-whats-working-and-what-isnt-2026-10-02","published":"2026-10-02T10:53:28Z","seen":"2026-10-02T10:53:28Z","lang":"en","country":"ZA","source":{"id":"polity.org.za","name":"polity.org.za","domain":"polity.org.za"},"via":"gdelt-gkg-english","topics":["economy","education","politics"],"entities":[{"id":"Q30324003","name":"ECOWAS Court","type":"org"}],"story":"st_yikpb64jrn3vvegv2eua","category":"politics","category_p":0.2800000011920929,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.2800000011920929,"political":0.46000000834465027},{"id":"n_lpgfp2s7mqgfyzrsnqha","seq":1269065,"kind":"article","title":"Africa: Ecowas Court and Women's Rights in West Africa - What's Working - and What Isn't","url":"https://allafrica.com/stories/202610020008.html","summary":"[The Conversation Africa] The Ecowas Court is a west African regional body located in Abuja, Nigeria, serving the now 12-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). The court, originally set up to handle economic matters related to the Ecowas Treaty, was given a human rights mandate in 2005. Since then, of the hundreds of cases the court has heard, nearly 90% have been human rights-related. In a recent book, international law and human rights scholar Maame…","published":"2026-10-02T04:54:40Z","seen":"2026-10-02T05:20:23Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-allafrica-com-e4afdd","name":"allafrica.com","domain":"allafrica.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q2837437","name":"AllAfrica.com","type":"website","designations":["website"]}},"via":"kite-allafrica-com-e4afdd","topics":["africa","west africa","women and gender"],"mentions":2,"story":"st_yikpb64jrn3vvegv2eua","category":"politics","category_p":0.23999999463558197,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.07999999821186066,"political":0.4300000071525574},{"id":"n_yikpb64jrn3vvegv2eua","seq":1157816,"kind":"article","title":"Ecowas Court and women’s rights in west Africa: what’s working – and what isn’t","url":"https://theconversation.com/ecowas-court-and-womens-rights-in-west-africa-whats-working-and-what-isnt-291919","summary":"Ecowas Court is already advancing women’s rights in the region, but its work could have more impact if it developed a uniform monetary compensation framework.","published":"2026-10-01T13:47:10Z","seen":"2026-10-01T14:53:05Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-theconversation-com-1853bd","name":"theconversation.com","domain":"theconversation.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q7727516","name":"The Conversation","type":"website","country":"AU","designations":["communications media","dot-com company","nonprofit organization","open-content news site","website"]}},"via":"kite-theconversation-com-1853bd","topics":["africa"],"authors":["Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom, Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science…"],"entities":[{"id":"Q30324003","name":"ECOWAS Court","type":"org"}],"story":"st_yikpb64jrn3vvegv2eua","category":"politics","category_p":0.28999999165534973,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.029999999329447746,"political":0.47999998927116394}]}