“An analysis of the impact of the provisions laid down in the Women’s Convention on equal rights during marriage and at its dissolution in the Kenyan recent legislation” – Submitted by Alessia Lo Conte ( LLM student of European Law at Maastricht University)

1. Introduction Women’s inequality within the family context is not only regarded as the foundation of all other forms of discrimination and disadvantage, but also as one of the most controversial women’s rights issue to address from a legal perspective[1]. According to the traditional “ideology of the family”, the persistence of such imbalance historically deals…