The publication on human rights in Africa captures the current status, development and transformation of the African human rights protection system.
1 The dominant discourse
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Human Rights in Africa: Some Selected Problems
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.
First published in 1997, this volume analyses the material provisions of the African charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights from 1981, discussing the issues this raises both with respect to the theoretical aspects of human rights law, and ...
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.
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.
This is particularly in light of the fact that the continent is in desperate need of well established and effective regional human rights enforcement mechanisms.
Human Rights in Africa: Which Way South Africa?
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 ...