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Article: Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights Through the African Regional Human Rights System
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- Journal of Third World Studies
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- October 1, 2005
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Mugwana, George William. Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights Through the African Regional Human Rights System. Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2003. 504 pp.
This book shows that the struggle for human rights on the African continent is far from over or complete. The African human rights regional system was initiated under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) that was transformed in 2002 to the African Union (AU). While the OAU Charter of 1963 made only a passing reference to the concept of human rights as it was aimed at the abolition of colonialism and apartheid, the Constitutive Act of the AU of 2001, firmly placed human rights as one of ...