The Human Rights Of African Prisoners
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Author | : |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Prisons are always a key focus of those interested in human rights and the rule of law. Human Rights in African Prisons looks at the challenges African governments face in dealing with these issues. Written by some of the most eminent researchers from and on Africa, including the former chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. This collection provides a current analysis of the situation in African prisons and examines how regional and international legal instruments have dealt with human rights concerns such as overcrowding, healthcare, pretrial detention, and the treatment of women and children. Human Rights in African Prisons reveals that there are reforms under way across nations in Africa and makes recommendations for strengthening and building on them.
Author | : Harri Englund |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006-09-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520249240 |
Author | : Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
African countries suffer from a serious lack in civil rights and public freedoms more than industrial countries do, explaining the low levels of reform so far attained in the criminal justice system, in general, and prisons, in particular. African penal institutions must be reformed by democratic methods in order to implement the best changes possible for the criminal justice system, crime prevention, and prison inmates.
Author | : Dan Berger |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1469618249 |
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Author | : Marie Morelle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100038151X |
This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the prison has imprinted itself on wider political and social imaginaries and, in turn, how structures of imprisonment carry the imprint of political action of various times. The second part stresses how particular forms of ordering emerge in African prisons. It is held that while these often involve coercion and neglect, they are better understood as the product of on-going negotiations and the search for meaning and value on the part of a multitude of actors. The third part is concerned with how prison life percolates beyond its physical perimeters into its urban and rural surroundings, and vice versa. It deals with the popular and contested nature of what prisons are about and what they do, especially in regard to bringing about moral subjects. The fourth and final part of the book examines how efforts of reforming and resisting the prison take shape at the intersection of globally circulating models of good governance and levels of self-organisation by prisoners. The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.
Author | : Frans Viljoen |
Publisher | : Boris Wijkstrom |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : African Charter on Human and People's Rights |
ISBN | : 2884771174 |
Author | : Ken Walibora |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612292175 |
Author | : Human Rights Watch (Organization) |
Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781564321268 |
While visiting over twenty prisons as well as lockups in at least five different cities throughout South Africa, we found significant improvements had been made since the political climate began to change in 1990. Nevertheless, South Africa's prisoner-to-population ratio is among the highest in the world, and many aspects of prison life remain depressinly unchanged from the years of official apartheid. South African prisons are places of extreme violence, where assaults on prisoners by guards or fellow inmates are common and often fatal.
Author | : Keir Starmer |
Publisher | : BIICL |
Total Pages | : 1486 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : 0903067846 |
At a time when the issue of human rights in Africa is making many advances, Human Rights Sourcebook and Manual for Africa introduces easy-to-use jurisprudence. The first section covers key principles and human rights norms which are detailed in straightforward language. The second section is devoted to the death penalty, detailing the relevant provisions from both international and regional instruments and offering a comparative commentary as to how the principles and relevant rights relate to the death penalty. The third section summarizes key case law from international, regional and domestic African courts and tribunals. The case summaries detail the facts and decisions and include a headnote of relevant concepts for quick reference. The fourth section focuses on thirteen African countries, yet the reports are a useful comparative resource for all countries. From conducting the research and compiling the material for this final section, it is apparent that nothing like this has been attempted before in Africa. Much of the work emanates from primary research and investigation conducted by local research teams in the individual countries. Investigative research includes visiting prisons, physically counting the individuals on death row and interviewing the detainees to obtain their age and the length of time they had been on death row.
Author | : Surendra Kumar Pachauri |
Publisher | : APH Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Convicts |
ISBN | : 9788176480758 |