Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa
Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa

Author: Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780847674336

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Human Rights under the African Charter
Human Rights under the African Charter

Author: Allwell Uwazuruike

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-29

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 3030417395

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This book critically examines the civil, political, socioeconomic, and group rights protected under the African Charter and its Protocol on women’s rights. It then examines the institutional protection of these rights through the African Commission and African Court. The book builds on the concept of regionalism within Africa and the recent drive for finding “African solutions to African problems” by tracing the development of human rights within Africa and assessing the effectiveness of Africa’s core regional human rights institutions. In turn, it critically analyses the obstacles to the full implementation of human rights in Africa such as the lack of political will, jurisdictional issues, lack of resources and funding, poverty, illiteracy, corruption, and customary practices that violate human rights. In closing, the book discusses possible solutions to these problems.

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

Author: G. Shivji

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 1989-06-15

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 286978421X

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Hitherto the human rights debate in Africa has concentrated on the legal and philosophical. The author, Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, here moves the debate to the social and political planes. He attempts to reconceptualise human rights ideology from the standpoint of the working people in Africa. He defines the approach as avoiding the pitfalls of the liberal perspective as being absolutist in viewing human rights as a central question and the rights struggle as the backbone of democratic struggles. The author maintains that such a study cannot be politically neutral or intellectually uncommitted. Both the critique of dominant discourse and the reconceptualisation are located within the current social science and jurisprudential debates.