This issue opens with an article on how to integrate Human Rights into customary and religious legal systems generally (Y. Sezgin), and then presents special studies of the issues in a "tribal" women's forum in South Rajastan, India (M.Hong Tschalaer), in customary justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone (K. Inksater), in indigenous justice systems in Latin America (G. Corradi) and in deep legal pluralism in South Africa (C. Rautenbach)