Africa/Global: African Women Snared by Two Legal Systems

'Decade of Small Steps, Large Leaps', The United Nation's special five-day session on women's rights, known as Beijing+10, begins on February 28. Women's eNews will provide news and perspectives on the meeting. In the first of seven dispatches, Nicole Italo reports that in Africa, 10 years after the U.N. called for the strengthening of women's legal rights, African women's rights are still often caught in the tangle between traditional and civil laws.