lesotho: Constitution Discriminates Against Women

Women in Lesotho married under customary law continue to be discriminated against. This was a conclusion reached at a two-day workshop on customary law and women's rights organised jointly by the Community Legal Resource and Advice Centre (CLRAC) of Lesotho and the Legal Resource Centre (LRC) of South Africa. The workshop, which is the result of a comparative study of women's rights in Lesotho and South Africa under customary law, found that the struggle of women for equal access to the law is still far from being reached.