Review of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Human rights |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Human rights |
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Author | : Manisuli Ssenyonjo |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2011-12-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004218149 |
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.
Author | : Fatsah Ouguergouz |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789041120618 |
- PART ONE -.
Author | : U. Oji Umozurike |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004636498 |
This book is an in-depth study of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights, written with the insight of an insider. It assesses the effectiveness of the Charter and of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in its formative years. It also compares the Charter with other major human rights instruments. The author asserts that respect for human rights made the existence of African societies possible despite the eras of gross violation. The survival of African societies, indeed their continued development, depends on respect for human rights. While conceding the universality of human rights, the author underscores African specificities and pecularities. He discusses the proper limits of `exclusively internal matters', as often claimed by African spokesmen, and puts forward the legitimate concerns of the international community as an effective check to arbitrariness and other violations. The book will be of special interest to international lawyers, law students, the judiciary and foreign office officials. The human rights activist will find it particularly useful in dealing with the African situation.
Author | : Rachel Murray |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2019-02-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192538586 |
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, there is now a significant body of jurisprudence and interpretation by its African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the recently established African Court. This volume provides a comprehensive article-by-article legal analysis of the provisions of the Charter as it draws upon the documents adopted by the African Commission, including resolutions, case law, and concluding observations. Where relevant, case law adopted by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, and that of other sub-regional courts and tribunals and domestic courts in Africa, are also incorporated. The book examines not only the substantive rights in the African Charter but also the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and provides a full examination of its mandate. A critical analysis of each of the provisions of the ACHPR is led principally by the jurisprudence and documentation of the African Commission and African Court. The text also identifies the overall development of the ACHPR within the broader regional and international human rights legal arena.
Author | : African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2014-06 |
Genre | : Human rights |
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Author | : Vincent Obisienunwo Orlu Nmehielle |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2001-12-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789041117311 |
4. Right to Peace.
Author | : Charles C. Jalloh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1199 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110842273X |
This volume analyses the prospects and challenges of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in context. The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Rachel H. Murray |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107054923 |
By what process and mechanisms can the findings of the African Commission be implemented and that implementation monitored?
Author | : Kolawole Olaniyan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1782254528 |
This important new book provides a framework for complementarity between promoting and protecting human rights and combating corruption. The book makes three major points regarding the relationship between corruption and human rights law. First, corruption per se is a human rights violation, insofar as it interferes with the right of the people to dispose of their natural wealth and resources and thereby increases poverty and frustrates socio-economic development. Second, corruption leads to a multitude of human rights violations. Third, the book demonstrates that human rights mechanisms have the capacity to provide more effective remedies to victims of corruption than can other criminal and civil legal mechanisms. The book takes up one of the pervasive problems of governance--large-scale corruption--to examine its impact on human rights and the degree to which a human rights approach to confronting corruption can buttress the traditional criminal law response. It examines three major aspects of human rights in practice--the importance of governing structures in the implementation and enjoyment of human rights, the relationship between corruption, poverty and underdevelopment, and the threat that systemic poverty poses to the entire human rights edifice. The book is a very significant contribution to the literature on good governance, human rights and the rule of law in Africa. Endorsements "Kolawole Olaniyan has taken up one of the pervasive problems of governance - large-scale corruption - to examine its impact on human rights and the degree to which a human rights approach to confronting corruption can buttress the traditional criminal law response. His focus is Africa, but the valuable lessons he teaches in this comprehensive study can resonate throughout the world. The result is a comprehensive and holistic legal framework for addressing some of the root causes of human rights violations and poverty, not only in Africa, but wherever corruption exists." Dinah Shelton Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law (emeritus) The George Washington University Law School "This book demonstrates the author's mastery of complex jurisprudential and theoretical discourses. His review of the existing literature is extensive, the doctrinal analysis rigorous and the treatment of the subject innovative. Dr. Olaniyan's willingness to introduce fresh eyes to the ways in which doctrine contributes to an understanding of seemingly mundane problems lays the foundation for fertile trajectories from which future scholars can launch exciting inquiries on the relationship between corruption and human rights. Overall, this book makes an important and valuable contribution to the growth and understanding of the corruption/human rights discourse as it is presently constructed." Ndiva Kofele-Kale, University Distinguished Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, USA.