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The African regional human rights system
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ISBN: 1283395894 9786613395894 9004218157 9789004218154 9789004218147 9004218149 9781283395892 6613395897 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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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 year 2011 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.


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The protection of freedom of expression in Africa : problems of applications and interpretation of Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
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ISBN: 0779980379 9780779980376 1495504069 9781495504068 Year: 2016 Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
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ISBN: 1107186048 1281716901 9786611716905 0511396066 0511397569 0511493967 0511396791 0511399154 051139831X 9780511396793 9780511397561 0521883997 9780511398315 9780511493966 9780521883993 9780521187640 0521187648 9780521187640 9781107186040 9781281716903 6611716904 9780511396069 9780511399152 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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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.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights : the system in practice, 1986-2000
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ISBN: 0521802075 9780521802079 0511179952 9780511179952 051106344X 9780511063442 0511071906 9780511071904 1280415126 9781280415128 1107130638 9781107130630 1139147137 9781139147132 0511057113 9780511057113 0511326262 9780511326264 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Collaborators to this volume include experts involved in the implementation of the Charter - commissioners, NGOs and academics. Chapters cover the reporting system, the Commission's interpretation of different rights, and prospects for the African Court on Human and People's Rights. Of interest to lawyers for government and non-governmental organizations, academics and postgraduates.


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La charte africaine des droits de l'homme et des peuples: une approche juridique des droits de l'homme entre tradition et modernité
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ISBN: 2130453252 2940549370 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris Presses universitaires de France

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La timide recomposition du paysage politique en cours dans un nombre croissant d’États africains est sans conteste le produit en même temps que le moteur de la revendication des droits de l’homme dans ces mêmes États. Adoptée en 1981, la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples a, avant l’heure, mis l’emphase sur cette relation dialectique entre libération des peuples et libertés de l’individu. Ce n’est pas là la moindre originalité de cette convention régionale que le présent ouvrage se propose d’analyser minutieusement sur un plan juridique. Pour l’essentiel, l’ouvrage consiste en un examen approfondi du contenu normatif et institutionnel de la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples. Cette étude apporte des réponses précises à toute une série de questions qui ne manquent pas d’interpeller le juriste. En consacrant par exemple les devoirs de l’individu, cette convention ne reprend-elle pas d’un côté ce qu’elle donne de l’autre à l’individu ? Les droits de l’individu ne risquent-ils pas d’être sacrifiés sur l’autel des droits du peuple ? À cet égard, un des principaux mérites de cette étude est qu’elle n’hésite pas à explorer certains pans entiers du droit international général ; il en va ainsi à propos de l’absence de clause de dérogation qui fait l’objet d’une analyse rigoureuse sous l’angle du droit des traités ou encore de la question des droits du peuple. Le fonctionnement de la Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples, installée à Banjul (Gambie) en 1989, est également examiné dans le détail. L’étude s’achève par une évaluation générale de la Charte africaine et de son rôle potentiel dans la protection des droits de l’homme en Afrique. Première monographie exhaustive en langue française sur la Charte africaine, elle est un ouvrage incontournable pour tout praticien du droit ou des relations internationales intéressé par la problématique des droits de l’homme en Afrique.


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The legal nature of international human rights
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ISBN: 1282949543 9786612949548 9047444426 9789047444428 9781282949546 9789004173903 9004173900 Year: 2010 Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands Boston, Mass. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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The role and influence human rights in society has been enhanced by its association with international law and yet despite this legal springboard, the scope of its legal nature remains uncertain. By analysing the work of international human rights courts and treaty bodies alongside a brief historical review, this book assesses the distinctive legal dimension of human rights. It concludes that the legalisation of human rights is an unplanned and evolving social construct that continues under the managerial oversight of international human rights courts and treaty bodies which employ the primary tool of treaty interpretation. These characteristics of the legal environment of human rights in international law provide a good appreciation of the law itself and its limits.

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Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol --- African Charter on Human and People's Rights --- American Convention on Human Rights --- ACHPR --- A.C.H.P.R. --- African Charter --- Banjul Charter --- Carta africana dei diritti dell'uomo e dei popoli --- Charte africaine des droits de l'homme et des peuples --- Dina afrikanina momba ny zon'ny olombelona sy ny vahoaka --- Pact of San José, Costa Rica --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities --- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol --- CRPD --- Shōgai no aru hito no kenri ni kansuru jōyaku to sono sentaku giteisho --- Konvensi PBB Mengenai Hak-Hak Orang Dengan Disabilitas --- UN CRPD --- UNCRPD --- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol --- Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad --- Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad y su Protocolo Facultativo --- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities --- Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées et Protocole facultatif --- Convención americana sobre derechos humanos --- Pacto de San José de Costa Rica --- Convenção Internacional sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência e seu Protocolo Facultativo --- Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência e seu Protocolo Facultativo --- Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência

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