Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812236777 ISBN 13: 9780812236774

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University and the editor of Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812236777
• ISBN 13: 9780812236774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: An-Na'im Abdullahi Ahmed