The African Charter On Human And Peoples Rights

Author : Rachel Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192538581

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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 : U. O. Umozurike
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789041102911

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by U. O. Umozurike Pdf

11. Other recourse procedures.

Author : U. Oji Umozurike
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004636491

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by U. Oji Umozurike Pdf

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 : Kounkinè Augustin Somé,Polycarp Ngufor Forkum,Armand Tanoh,Meskerem Geset Techane,Satang Nabaneh,Michael Gyan Nyarko,Saoyo Tabitha Griffith,Paul Ogendi,Sizakele Hlatshwayo,Sarai Chisala-Tempelhoff,Seun Solomon Bakare,Roopanand Mahadew,Augustine Sorie Marrah,Ofentse Motlhasedi,Linette du Toit,Dumsani Dlamini,Grace Kamugisha Kazoba,Charles Mmbando,Agaba Daphine Kabagambe,Tarisai Mutangi
Publisher : PULP
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : African Charter on Human and People's Rights (1981) 2003 July 11
ISBN : 9781920538477

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The impact of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in selected African states by Kounkinè Augustin Somé,Polycarp Ngufor Forkum,Armand Tanoh,Meskerem Geset Techane,Satang Nabaneh,Michael Gyan Nyarko,Saoyo Tabitha Griffith,Paul Ogendi,Sizakele Hlatshwayo,Sarai Chisala-Tempelhoff,Seun Solomon Bakare,Roopanand Mahadew,Augustine Sorie Marrah,Ofentse Motlhasedi,Linette du Toit,Dumsani Dlamini,Grace Kamugisha Kazoba,Charles Mmbando,Agaba Daphine Kabagambe,Tarisai Mutangi Pdf

The year 2016 was declared by the African Union as the African ‘Year of Human Rights with Particular Focus on the Rights of Women’ to commemorate and celebrate significant milestones in the realisation of human rights on the African continent. The year marks the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter), 30th year since coming into force of the African Charter and 10 years since the inauguration of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Since its adoption, the African Charter has been supplemented by the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol). All AU member states (with the exception of new comer South Sudan) are state parties to the African Charter, and 36 of them have accepted the Maputo Protocol. This book assesses the impact and effectiveness of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in 17 African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The book is the result of research conducted by selected alumni of the Centre for Human Rights’ LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa programme.

Author : Frans Viljoen,Annika Rudman,Celestine Nyamu Musembi ,Trésor Muhindo Makunya
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: a commentary by Frans Viljoen,Annika Rudman,Celestine Nyamu Musembi ,Trésor Muhindo Makunya Pdf

The first in a series of PULP commentaries on African human rights law, under the series title: PULP Commentaries on African human rights law Since its adoption on 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) has become a landmark on the African human rights landscape. It has steadily gained prominence as a trail-blazing instrument, responsive to the diverse realities of women on the African continent. This comprehensive Commentary on the Maputo Protocol, the first of its kind, provides systematic analysis of each article of the Protocol, delving into the drafting history, and elaborating on relevant key concepts and normative standards. This Commentary aims to be a ‘one-stop-shop’ for anyone interested in the Maputo Protocol, such as researchers, teachers, students, practitioners, policymakers and activists.

Author : Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004218147

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The African Regional Human Rights System by Manisuli Ssenyonjo Pdf

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 : Rachel H. Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
ISBN : 0191847852

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by Rachel H. Murray Pdf

In this first English language commentary on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Rachael Murray sets out the negotiating history of each provision along with the relevant case law, decisions, and resolutions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and subsequent state practice.

Author : Fatsah Ouguergouz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004501010

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The African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights by Fatsah Ouguergouz Pdf

This work reveals the true dimension of the African Charter through a systematic analysis of its real or apparent innovations and a detailed assessment of the commitments of the States parties. It also analyzes the effectiveness of the mechanism put in place to monitor compliance with those commitments, examining the practice of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights from its establishment in 1987. It incorporates major recent achievements in the field of the protection of human rights in Africa, including the creation of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and the establishment of the African Union. This work is the expanded and updated English version of La Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples – Une approche juridique des droits de l’homme entre tradition et modernité (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris).

Author : Fatsah Ouguergouz
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9041120610

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The African Charter of Human and People's Rights by Fatsah Ouguergouz Pdf

- PART ONE -.

Author : Malcolm Evans,Rachel Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139470841

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by Malcolm Evans,Rachel Murray Pdf

The African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights came into force in 1986, and is unique in that it lacks a precedent. However, little scholarship exists analysing it as an operational system in practice. The success of the first edition of this book led to this updated second edition. Contributors include experts who have been actively involved in the implementation of the Charter - commissioners, NGOs and academics. Offering a detailed evaluation of the Charter as a mechanism for the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa, the contributions cover the Charter's reporting system, the interpretation of different rights by the Commission, the prospects for the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the role of NGOs. This authoritative and comprehensive volume will interest lawyers acting for government and non-governmental organisations, as well as academics and postgraduates.

Author : Nat Rubner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781847013545

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by Nat Rubner Pdf

Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that eventually brought it into being and determined its content. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), which was proposed in 1979, adopted in 1981 and came into effect in 1986, was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. With Africa largely absent in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, it stands in stark historical reproach to the Western conception of universal human rights as a pivotal document in the decolonisation of the continent. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, which is key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Through documenting its process of construction, it becomes possible to understand how Africans themselves understood the process and the issues involved and how the ACHPR became a political text asserted by African leaders and not a continuum of a so-called universal human rights tradition. The result is a radical repositioning of the underlying context of the ACHPR, one of the most important documents in modern African history, of how it came to be and how it should therefore be understood. Volume 2 describes the process through which the ACHPR came into being. Analysing the role of Western governments, the UN and NGOs, it shows that, contrary to the prevailing view of African human rights commentators, their influence was limited and at times counter-productive. That, in fact, the formulation of the ACHPR was a profoundly political process that was primarily a product of an African desire to instigate its own human rights perspective as a counter to the human rights universalism advanced by the Western post-war human rights tradition.

Author : Vincent O. Nmehielle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004481060

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The African Human Rights System by Vincent O. Nmehielle Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive treatment of the African human rights system in terms of the laws, practice, and institutions of the system. The volume discusses, analyzes, and evaluates normative instruments of the African system: the Charter of the Organization of the African Unity (OAU), and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, presenting article-by-article analysis of its provisions and those of the Protocol on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. Similarly the OAU (now the African Union), the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and the proposed African Court on Human Rights, as institutions of the system, are discussed. The book emphasizes a comparative approach and presents a summary of the UN, the European and the Inter-American human rights mechanisms with regard to their impact on the African system. The role of NGOs in the African system is also considered, as well as the controversial issue of human rights in pre-colonial and colonial Africa.

Author : Nasila S. Rembe
Publisher : Institute of Southern Lesotho
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082404067

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The System of Protection of Human Rights Under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by Nasila S. Rembe Pdf

Civil and Political Rights

Author : Evelyn A. Ankumah
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004636859

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The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights by Evelyn A. Ankumah Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1103733141

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by Anonim Pdf