Beyond the paper tiger: The challenge of a Human Rights Court in Africa

Texas International Law Journal;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...The [African human rights] enforcement mechanism is unsatisfactory...provides for the establishment of an African Human Rights Commission. However, unlike its...mutual agreement. Although the African Human Rights Commission indeed serves a useful...

Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and the Church in Africa.(Book Review)

Theological Studies;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURAL DIFFERENCE...THE CHURCH IN AFRICA. By Aquiline...sub-Saharan Africa. Imported Western notions of human rights fail to take root in African soil because...articulation of, human rights in traditional African cultures, but...

Human rights and minorities in Africa: A theoretical and conceptual...

Journal of Third World Studies;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......concisely the issues of human rights in Africa within the context of...Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the famous African [Banjul] Charter on Human...cite a few examples. In Africa, the human rights problems of minority groups...

Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socio-Economic Realities in...

African Studies Quarterly;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socio-Economic Realities in Africa. Obioma Nnaemeka and...and enforcement of human rights in Africa. The focus of the book...developing and producing human rights in Africa at a time when the...

AFRICA-HUMAN RIGHTS: FEW LIGHTS IN THE DARKNESS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 9, 1995 ;     700+ words ......year-old Inter-African Human Rights Union (UIDH), which...and Togo. The 35 human rights NGOs and 14 institutions...the Union urged African states to guarantee...UIDH is improving human rights education in Africa. A meeting held...

Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights through the African...

African Studies Review;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......George William Mugwanya. Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights through...normative framework of the African human rights system, has generated considerable...ambitious examination of the African human rights system and its role in ...

Human Rights in Africa: From the OAU to the African Union

African Studies Review;  April 1, 2006 ;     561 words ......HUMAN RIGHTS Rachel Murray. Human Rights in Africa: From the OAU to the African...prolific scholarly commentator, Human Rights in Africa is an important and worthy...institutions that constitute the African human rights system, and ...

HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA:BILL DELAHUNT

Congressional Testimony;  May 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health...Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight...Declaration of Human Rights. This initial...Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health...respect for human rights in U.S. policy toward Africa are remarkable...

CHINA-AFRICA SUMMIT: FOCUS ON HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT JUST TRADE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 2, 2006 ;     521 words ...Human Rights Watch issued the...Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit...great friend of the African people and a responsible...Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "But that...stated interest in African peace. Human Rights Watch called on...

Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa/Human Rights under...

African Studies Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa. London: Zed Books, 2002...Abdullahi A. An-Na'im, ed. Human Rights under African Constitutions. Philadelphia...Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa, Abdullahi An-Na'im brings...

Powell calls for political transparency, respect for human rights as...

AP Worldstream;  September 17, 2002 ;     601 words ......Powell said Africa will achieve...respect for human rights, as the spotlight...the need for African nations to deepen...respect for human rights as keys to economic...respect for human rights. Designed to strengthen Africa's economic independence...

Human rights must be at the heart of the new partnership for Africa's...

The Native Voice;  April 18, 2002 ;     462 words ......provisions on how human rights progress will...monitored. While African leaders have...solution of African conflicts...protection of human rights must always...governments in Africa to guarantee...enjoyment of human rights for the citizens...

South Africa must strengthen support for Africa's human rights...

Cape Times (South Africa);  August 28, 2006 ;     626 words ......the message. The African Commission on...expresses the state of human rights in Africa, not so much by...strong terms, its human rights abuses around...breakthrough for the African Union, marking...gradually dividing the human rights offenders from the ...

Legitimacy, justice, and the future of Africa.(Human Rights, the Rule of...

Human Rights & Human Welfare;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe...much from the new African nations in the matters of democracy and human rights. Four decades later...as much as to the Africans to support the pro-democra...The support of human rights ...

Abdullahi A. An-Na'im (ed.): (2002) Cultural Transformation and Human...

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa. London and New York: Zed...cultural transformation in Africa, from a human rights perspective' (p. 2), the...Mutua carefully situates human rights in Africa within the context of the...