Human Rights in Africa
Human Rights in Africa

Author: Eunice N. Sahle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1137519150

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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.

Human Rights in Africa
Human Rights in Africa

Author: Bonny Ibhawoh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1107016312

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An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.

Human Rights in Contemporary Africa
Human Rights in Contemporary Africa

Author: Anna Maria Johnson

Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 150262379X

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Human Rights in Contemporary Africa provides an in-depth look at the current state of human rights across the continent. The book explores the obstacles to human rights including the lingering effects of colonialism and imperialism, which led to volatile political situations in many areas. Human Rights in Contemporary Africa profiles activists and political regimes to provide context for the struggles countries around the continent face as they grapple with the issues of human safety, security, and dignity.

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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The African Regional Human Rights System
The African Regional Human Rights System

Author: Manisuli Ssenyonjo

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2011-12-23

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 9004218149

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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.

Worlds of Human Rights
Worlds of Human Rights

Author: Bill Derman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9004250131

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This book engages with contemporary African human rights struggles including land, property, gender equality and legal identity. Through ethnographic field studies it situates claims-making by groups and individuals that have been subject to injustices and abuses, often due to different forms of displacement, in specific geographical, historical and political contexts. Exploring local communities’ complexities and divided interests it addresses the ambiguities and tensions surrounding the processes whereby human rights have been incorporated into legislation, social and economic programs, legal advocacy, land reform, and humanitarian assistance. It shows how existing relations of inequality, domination and control are affected by the opportunities offered by emerging law and governance structures as a plurality of non-state actors enter what previously was considered the sole regulatory domain of the nation state.

Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights
Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights

Author: Derrick M. Nault

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0192603361

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Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide. Some observers consequently have gone so far as to suggest that human rights are a concept alien to African cultures. The International Criminal Court (ICC)'s focus on Africa in recent years has reinforced the region's reputation as a hotspot for human rights violations. But despite Africa's notoriety concerning human rights, Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights argues that the continent has been pivotal in helping to shape contemporary human rights norms and practices. Challenging prevailing Eurocentric interpretations of human rights' origins and evolution, it demonstrates that from the colonial era to the present Africa's peoples have drawn attention to and prompted novel ways of thinking about human rights through their encounters with the world at large. Beginning with the depredations of King Leopold II in the Congo Free State in the 1880s and ending with the ICC's current activities in Africa, it reveals how African events, personalities, groups, and nations have influenced the trajectory of human rights history in intriguing and critical ways, in the end enlarging and universalizing a major discourse of our time.