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Human Rights Under African Constitutions : Realizing the Promise for Ourselves / ed. by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812236774
  • 9780812201109
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323/.096
LOC classification:
  • JC599.A36 ǂb H88 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Ethiopia -- Chapter 3. Ghana -- Chapter 4. Guinea -- Chapter 5. Morocco -- Chapter 6. Mozambique -- Chapter 7. Nigeria -- Chapter 8. Rwanda -- Chapter 9. South Africa -- Chapter 10. Sudan -- Chapter 11. Uganda -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human rights in Africa. In a series of detailed and highly contextual studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda, experts seek to balance the socioeconomic and political diversity of these nations while using the same theoretical framework of legal analysis for each case study.Standards for human rights protection can be realized only through direct and strong support from a nation's legal and political institutions. The contributors to this volume uniformly conclude that a well-informed and motivated citizenry is the most powerful force for creating the political will necessary to effect change at the national level. In addition to a critical evaluation of the current state of human rights protection in each of these African nations, the contributors outline existing national resources available for protecting human rights and provide recommendations for more effective and practical use of these resources.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Ethiopia -- Chapter 3. Ghana -- Chapter 4. Guinea -- Chapter 5. Morocco -- Chapter 6. Mozambique -- Chapter 7. Nigeria -- Chapter 8. Rwanda -- Chapter 9. South Africa -- Chapter 10. Sudan -- Chapter 11. Uganda -- Contributors -- Index

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Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human rights in Africa. In a series of detailed and highly contextual studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda, experts seek to balance the socioeconomic and political diversity of these nations while using the same theoretical framework of legal analysis for each case study.Standards for human rights protection can be realized only through direct and strong support from a nation's legal and political institutions. The contributors to this volume uniformly conclude that a well-informed and motivated citizenry is the most powerful force for creating the political will necessary to effect change at the national level. In addition to a critical evaluation of the current state of human rights protection in each of these African nations, the contributors outline existing national resources available for protecting human rights and provide recommendations for more effective and practical use of these resources.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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