Albany Law School President and Dean Penelope (Penny) Andrews is the author of the newly published book From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women’s Human Rights (Ashgate Publishing), which advances a new approach to pursuing human rights for women in developing democracies.
In the book, Dean Andrews draws upon her experience living under apartheid and after the fall of apartheid in her native South Africa, as well as her subsequent scholarship and advocacy on behalf of women around the world, including South Africa, Australia and the United States. She applies these perspectives to the contemporary example of Afghanistan, where an emerging democracy necessitates new conversations about human rights and gender equality.