International Human Rights Law in Africa: National and International Protection
Product Details
Author: Frans Viljoen
Hardcover: 350 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford (6 Sep 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0199218587
ISBN-13: 978-0199218585
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 4.6 cm
Product Description
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.
About Frans Viljoen
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.
