Protecting Human Rights In Africa
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| Author | : Manisuli Ssenyonjo |
| Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 629 |
| Release | : 2011-12-23 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9004218149 |
The African human rights system has undergone some remarkable developments since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, the cornerstone of the African human rights system, in June 1981. The year2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter. It also marked 25 years since the African Charter entered into force on 21 October 1986.This book aims to provide reflections on most of the major human rights issues in the past 30 years of the African human rights system in practice and discussion on the future: the African Charter s impact and contribution to the respect, protection and promotion of human rights in Africa; the contemporary challenges faced by the African Human rights system in responding adequately to the demands of rapidly evolving African societies; and how the African human rights system can be strengthened in the future to ensure that the human rights protected in the African Charter, as developed in the jurisprudence of the African Commission since the Commission was inaugurated in 1987, are realised in practice.The chapters in this volume bring together the work of 20 human rights scholars and practitioners, with expertise in human rights in Africa, under the following general themes: rights and duties in the African Charter; rights of the vulnerable under the African system; implementation mechanisms for human rights in Africa; and towards an effective African regional human rights system.
| Author | : Anton Bösl |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Human rights |
| ISBN | : 9789991609560 |
| Author | : Albie Sachs |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2013-10-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0812201108 |
Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human rights in Africa. In a series of detailed and highly contextual studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda, experts seek to balance the socioeconomic and political diversity of these nations while using the same theoretical framework of legal analysis for each case study. Standards for human rights protection can be realized only through direct and strong support from a nation's legal and political institutions. The contributors to this volume uniformly conclude that a well-informed and motivated citizenry is the most powerful force for creating the political will necessary to effect change at the national level. In addition to a critical evaluation of the current state of human rights protection in each of these African nations, the contributors outline existing national resources available for protecting human rights and provide recommendations for more effective and practical use of these resources.
| Author | : Michael Addaney |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2020-08-21 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 3030465233 |
This book brings together original and novel perspectives on major developments in human rights law and the environment in Africa. Focusing on African Union law, the book explores the core concepts and principles, theory and practice, accountability mechanisms and key issues challenging human rights law in the era of global environmental change. It, thus, extend the frontier of understanding in this fundamental area by building on existing scholarship on African human rights law and the protection of the environment, divulging concerns on redressing environmental and human rights protection issues in the context of economic growth and sustainable development. It further offers unique insight into the development, domestication and implementation challenges relating to human rights law and environmental governance in Africa. This long overdue interdisciplinary exploration of human rights law and the environment from an African perspective will be an indispensable reference point for academics, policymakers, practitioners and advocates of international human rights and environmental law in particular and international law, environmental politics and philosophy, and African studies in general. It is clear that there is much to do, study and share on this timely subject in the African context.
| Author | : Santosh C. Saha |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1999-05-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0313371296 |
There is a growing tendency in all of the developing countries to see the right to employment, education, and other basic rights as adjuncts to basic political rights. Also, in many African countries there have been movements for expansive rights that should include children's rights and women's rights in addition to the basic civil and political rights. Most current sources have selectively taken into consideration the work of politically oriented groups. This volume includes the status and work of human rights groups in Africa currently working to uphold both the basic as well as the expansive rights. One possible way of resolving the conflict between relativism and universalism is to project commonalities of norms and values through examinations of many advocacy groups in Africa that highlight the plight of refugees, women, and children as well as civil and political rights. This dictionary lists the current advocacy groups working in Africa to uphold and protect both the basic political rights and the expansive rights of previously unacknowledged segments of the population from governmental infringements. Advocacy groups are listed A to Z with additional resource information following each entry. This book will be a useful reference to students and scholars of African history, Third World Studies, International Human Rights, and Political Science, and Academic libraries.
| Author | : John C. Mubangizi |
| Publisher | : Juta and Company Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780702167300 |
The book provides useful information about international human rights norms and their relevance to South Africa. Considering the interplay between international and domestic human rights standards, it explains and explores how the South African Constitution protects human rights.
| Author | : Eunice N. Sahle |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2019-02-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137519150 |
This edited collection explores key human rights themes and situates them in the context of developments on the African continent. It examines critical debates in human rights bringing together conceptually and empirically rich contributions from leading thinkers in human rights and African studies. Drawing on scholarly insights from the fields of constitutional law, human rights, development, feminist studies, public health, and media studies, the volume contributes to scholarly debates on constitutionalism, the right to water, securitization of development, environmental and transitional justice, sexual rights, conflict and gender-based violence, the right to development, and China’s deepening role in Africa. Consequently, it makes an important scholarly intervention on timely issues pertaining to the African continent and beyond.
| Author | : Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 609 |
| Release | : 2016-10-20 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107173655 |
This book critically examines models of domestic, regional and international judicial protection of economic, cultural and social rights in Africa.
| Author | : Claude Emerson Welch |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780812217803 |
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 Since the 1950s, sub-Saharan Africa has been the site of profound political changes initiated by ascendant nationalism and rapid decolonization. With this new beginning came fresh challenges involving many crucial aspects of human rights: self-determination; civil and political rights, including government legitimacy; military involvement in African politics; and unfulfilled basic needs that have cried out for economic and social development. Protecting Human Rights in Africa is the first major comparative study of the way human rights NGOs have brought revolutionary change south of the Sahara. Governments are both the most important protectors and abusers of human rights, while NGOs have become the most effective detectives in discovering abuses and the most active advocates in seeking solutions.
