The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
Author: Issa G. Shivji
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1870784022
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Human Rights in Africa
Author: Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1107016312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.
Human Rights Law in Africa 1998
Author: Christof Heyns
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2001-04-11
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9789041115782
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Human Rights in Africa
Author: ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights. "
Human Rights in Africa
Author: Eunice N. Sahle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1137519150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The African Regional Human Rights System
Author: Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011-12-23
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 9004218149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination
Author: Chielozona Eze
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1000376273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJustice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment.
Human Rights in Africa
Author: Brian Baughan
Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781422229422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history behind the struggle to secure fundamental rights and freedoms for all Africans, also explains the roles that can be played by organizations like the United Nations and the African Union, NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and national governments in advancing the cause of human rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKImperialism and Human Rights
Author: Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008-01-03
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0791480925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing that, in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of "civilization" and "modernity," became an important part of the discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire.
