Human Rights Under African Constitutions
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Human Rights Under African Constitutions

Realizing the Promise for Ourselves

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eBook - ePub

Human Rights Under African Constitutions

Realizing the Promise for Ourselves

About this book

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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Index
Abacha, General Sanni, 217, 219, 232, 238, 243
Abadarine, Ahmed, 176
Abahinza, 277
Abatware b’imiryango, 267
Abiola, Chief Mashood, 217
Abubakr, General Abdusalami, 217
Acheampong, Col. I. K, 58
Action for Development (ACFODE), Uganda, 412
Action Profession Association for People (APAP), Ethiopia, 46
Adade, Justice, 71
Addis Ababa Peace Agreement of 1972, 342
Addis Ababa University, 44
Ademola, Justice Adenekan, 218
Africa: conflicts in, 276; multifaceted diversity of, viii; model of political management in, 281-82; regional conflicts in, 28 n.8; relation between civil society and state, ix; postcolonial state in, 4, 11-16; sub-Saharan, 42
Africa Bar Association (ABA), 77, 239
Africa International University, 377
Africa-Law, Guinea, 139
Africa Legal Aid (ALA), 83
Africa No. 1, 142
African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Banjul, Gambia, 78
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 17, 35, 71, 102, 106, 126, 182, 191, 226, 227, 229, 259, 269, 307, 391-92
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 229
African Commission on Health and Human Rights Promoters, 83
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 91, 106, 121, 334
African Court on Human and People’s Rights, 229
African National Congress (ANC), South Africa, 297, 299, 300, 301
African nationalist movements, 278
African Socialism, 53, 280
African Society for International and Comparative Law, 78, 83
Afronet. See Inter-African Network for Human Rights and Development Aguiyi-Ironisi, Major General Johnson, 216
AIDS. HIV/AIDS
Aka-Bashorun, Alao, 239
Akan, 53, 67
Akande, Jadesola, 212
Akazu, 258, 259, 263
Akuffo-Addo, Nana, 53, 91
Al Bayan, 174
Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki, 174
Alemayehu, Samuel, 51 n.6
Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy Lawyers, Sudan, 380
Alpha Condé, 136, 149 n.101; case, 126, 136
Al-Turabi, Hasan, 365, 371
American Bar Association, 168
Amin Dada, Major General Idi, 28 n.8, 280,386
Amnesty International, 62, 83, 158
Annachra, 181 n.18
Annan, Kofi, 281
Anoual, 174
Ansar, 343
Anticolonialiste: Third World, 254. See also Colonialism
Apartheid, 9, 27, 299, 320; and antiapartheid struggle, 334; and legalization of segregation, 297; legislation, 299; regime, 187, 298, 303, 330,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: Expanding Legal Protection of Human Rights in African Contexts
  7. Ethiopia: Processes of Democratization and Development
  8. Ghana: Competing Visions of Liberal Democracy and Socialism
  9. Guinea: Building the Rule of Law for Social Development
  10. Morocco: The Imperative of Democratic Transition
  11. Mozambique: Nurturing Justice from Liberation Zones to a Stable Democratic State
  12. Nigeria: Combating Legacies of Colonialism and Militarism
  13. Rwanda: Building Constitutional Order in the Aftermath of Genocide
  14. South Africa: The Interdependence of All Human Rights
  15. Sudan: In the Shadows of Civil War and Politicization of Islam
  16. Uganda: The Long and Uncertain Road to Democracy
  17. List of Contributors
  18. Index