International Human Rights Law in Africa
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-921858-5 (ISBN)
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Since the establishment of the African Union in 2001, there has been a proliferation of regional institutions that are relevant to human rights in Africa. These include the Pan African Parliament, the Peace and Security Council, the Economic, Social and Cultural Council and the African Peer Review Mechanism of the New Partnership for Africa's Development. This book discusses the links between these institutions, and 20 years jurisprudence stemming from the entry into force on 21st October 1986 of the major African human rights instrument, the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. This book attempts to provide a comprehensive analytical overview of human rights in Africa, dealing particularly with the regional system of human rights protection. Four themes are followed throughout the book, these are: the principle of uti possidetis, the tensions in the modern post-colonial African state; poverty; and the interrelationship between national and international human rights protection. The analysis is intended to be comprehensive yet concise, analytically critical yet accessible, and a combination of both theoretical and practical aspects.
Frans Viljoen is head of the department of Legal History, Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy, Director of Academic Programmes at the Centre for Human Rights, and head of the AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit at the University of Pretoria, and has become the latest recipient of the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellowship to undertake research at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg on comparative aspects of the European and African human rights systems.
Preface ; Introduction ; Table of Contents ; Table of Treaties and Legislation ; A BACKGROUND ; 1. Background to international human rights law ; B THE GLOBAL LEVEL ; 2. The United Nations Charter based human rights system and Africa ; 3. The UN treaty-based human rights system and Africa ; C THE REGIONAL LEVEL ; 4. The African regional architecture and human rights ; 5. African Union and human rights ; 6. Substantive human rights norms in the African regional system ; 7. The composition, seat and functioning of the African Commission ; 8. The African Commission's protective mandate ; 9. The African Commission's promotional mandate ; 10. The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ; D THE SUB-REGIONAL LEVEL ; 11. The realisation of human rights in Africa through subregional institutions ; E THE NATIONAL LEVEL ; 12. Domestication of international human rights law ; 13. Justiciability of socio-economic rights at the domestic level ; 14. The lack of a human rights-based approach to HIV and AIDS ; F CONCLUSION ; 15. Conclusions ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.9.2007 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 1221 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-921858-7 / 0199218587 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-921858-5 / 9780199218585 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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