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Human Rights in Africa

Author : ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm
Publisher : Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Africa written by ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm and published by Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury. This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights. "

Human Rights

Author : Judith R. Blau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742542433
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights written by Judith R. Blau and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing recognition around the globe that people's fundamental human rights are being imperiled in a world economy that is being driven by multinationals, investors, and banks. The 'race to the bottom' and insatiable greed has intensified poverty and economic inequalities, fueled migration, and rapidly accelerated environmental degradation. The fates of all nations are interdependent and even though the U.S. is the prime driver of the new economy, Americans have likewise experienced declines over the past decades. Blau and Moncada outline the fundamental human rights that all people are entitled to and the important role that nations have in upholding these rights. Americans find it somewhat difficult to accept the basic premise of human rights because liberalism, as a social, political, and economic ethos powerfully undercuts the premise of human rights. American liberalism highlights the efficacy of individual achievement and individual autonomy, thereby promoting the idea that people have no rights to security. . Human rights, in contrast to the liberal ethos, asserts that all humans have inalienable rights, including rights to a job, housing, social security, education, and a cultural, racial or ethnic identity. Under the conditions of a turbulent global economy, human rights need to be granted the highest standing. The authors consider global capitalism, as well as the role of the global media, and the problematic relationship between the state and society in America. In the final chapter, we review the many currents of transformative movements that are promoting a more equitable, fairer, and more egalitarian world.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

Author : Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030280987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies written by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women’s historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa

Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204514
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa written by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in human rights environments in Africa over the past decade have been facilitated by astounding political transformations: the rise of mass movements and revolts driven by democratic and developmentalist ideals, as well as mass murder and poverty perpetuated by desperate regimes and discredited global agencies. Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa seeks to make sense of human rights in Africa through the lens of its triumphs and tragedies, its uneven developments and complex demands. The volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the connections between the protection of human rights and the pursuit of economic development by interrogating the paradigms, politics, and practices of human rights in Africa. Throughout, the essays emphasize that democratic and human rights regimes are products of concrete social struggles, not simply textual or legal discourses. Including some of Africa's leading scholars, jurists, and human rights activists, contributors to the volume diverge from Western theories of African democratization by rejecting the continental view of an Africa blighted by failure, disease, and economic malaise. It argues instead that Africa has strengthened and shaped international law, such as the right to self-determination, inspired by the process of decolonization, and the definition of the refugee. Insisting on the holistic view that human rights are as much about economic and social rights as they are about civil and political rights, the contributors offer novel analyses of African conceptions, experiences, and aspirations of human rights which manifest themselves in complex global, regional, and local idioms. Further, they explore the varied constructions of human rights in African and Western discourses and the roles played by states and NGOs in promoting or subverting human rights. Combining academic analysis with social concern, intellectual discourse with civic engagement, and scholarly research with institution building, this is a compelling and original approach to the question whether externally inspired solutions to African human rights issues have validity in a postcolonial world.

Human Rights and Conflict Transformation in Africa

Author : Laurence Juma
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956790419
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Conflict Transformation in Africa written by Laurence Juma and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study maps the interactions between human rights norms and values, on the one hand, and conflict resolution, post-conflict peace-building and reconstruction, on the other. It advances the view both from a theoretical and practical standpoint, that human rights have a role to play throughout the life of any conflict: from the pre-conflict to the post-conflict and reconstruction stages. Identifying entry points for human rights in the pre-conflict stage leading up to the establishment of the rule of law and societal reconstruction after the conflict, this book uses Sierra Leone and Democratic Republic of Congo experiences to illustrate the obstacles, the successes, and the significance of human rights norms to the overall peace agenda in societies afflicted by conflict.

Human Rights Law in Africa 1998

Author : Christof Heyns
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789041115782
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Law in Africa 1998 written by Christof Heyns and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2001-04-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Statute of the ICTR.

Human Rights in Africa

Author : Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110834058X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Africa written by Bonny Ibhawoh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa. Rather than a tidy narrative of ruthless violators and benevolent protectors, this book reveals a complex account of indigenous African rights traditions embodied in the wisdom of elders and sages; of humanitarians and abolitionists who marshalled arguments about natural rights and human dignity in the cause of anti-slavery; of the conflictual encounters between natives and colonists in the age of Empire and the 'civilizing mission'; of nationalists and anti-colonialists who deployed an emergent lexicon of universal human rights to legitimize longstanding struggles for self-determination, and of dictators and dissidents locked in struggles over power in the era of independence and constitutional rights.

Human Rights in Africa

Author : Eunice N. Sahle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137519150
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Africa written by Eunice N. Sahle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores key human rights themes and situates them in the context of developments on the African continent. It examines critical debates in human rights bringing together conceptually and empirically rich contributions from leading thinkers in human rights and African studies. Drawing on scholarly insights from the fields of constitutional law, human rights, development, feminist studies, public health, and media studies, the volume contributes to scholarly debates on constitutionalism, the right to water, securitization of development, environmental and transitional justice, sexual rights, conflict and gender-based violence, the right to development, and China’s deepening role in Africa. Consequently, it makes an important scholarly intervention on timely issues pertaining to the African continent and beyond.

Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions

Author : Oyeniyi Abe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000588211
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions written by Oyeniyi Abe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Business enterprises and transnational corporate actors operate in a complex global environment, especially when operating in high risks sectors such as oil and gas, mining, construction, banking, and health care amongst others. Understanding human rights responsibilities, impacts, and socially responsible behaviour for companies is therefore an essential component of corporate risk management in our current world. The release of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, an instrument consisting of 31 principles on this issue, has further underscored the emergence of a rapidly developing set of international law norms on human rights responsibilities of businesses and transnational corporations. It has also shaped the discourse on corporate accountability for human rights. In addition to minimizing litigation, financial and reputational risks, understanding and demonstrating corporate respect for human rights is vital to building a culture of trust and integrity amongst local communities, investors, and shareholders. While Africa has been at the receiving end of deleterious activities of corporate actors, it has failed to address corporate impunity and human rights violations by non-state actors. Questions abound revolving around the underpinnings of a corporate responsibility to respect human rights, that is, how non-western and particularly African conceptions of respect may help develop a beyond do no net harm approach to respect; policy discourses on human rights due diligence, human rights impact assessment; mandating corporate respect for human rights in both domestic and international law. This book examines, clarifies, and unpacks the guiding principles of a rights-based approach to development and social inclusion. It offers an excellent exposition of regulatory capacity, institutional efficacy, and democratic legitimacy of governance institutions that shape development including a comprehensive analysis of how states are shaping business and human rights discourses locally to develop a critical understanding of identified issues by exploring the latest theories through comparative lenses.

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

Author : Issa G. Shivji
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1870784022
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Human Rights in Africa written by Issa G. Shivji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 The dominant discourse

Sex Matters

Author : Adili Zia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Matters written by Adili Zia and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethics, Human Rights, and Development in Africa

Author : A. T. Dalfovo
Publisher : CRVP
ISBN 13 : 9781565181724
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (817 download)

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Book Synopsis Ethics, Human Rights, and Development in Africa by : A. T. Dalfovo

Download or read book Ethics, Human Rights, and Development in Africa written by A. T. Dalfovo and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decolonizing Human Rights

Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108417132
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Human Rights written by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.

Being and Becoming

Author : Ukpokolo, Chinyere
Publisher : Spears Media Press
ISBN 13 : 1942876076
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Being and Becoming written by Ukpokolo, Chinyere and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape people's identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on the way men and women define themselves and are defined by diverse peoples and cultures across time and space in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussions presented in this anthology primarily focus on 'being' as 'a state' or 'condition', defined by sex identity, and how this identity shifts, and hence 'becoming', assuming diverse meanings in disparate societies, contexts, and time. The discourse, therefore, moves from how the perception of the self in cultural and historical contexts has informed actions and at some other times shaped interpretations given to historical facts, to how changing economic realities also shape the definitions and constructions of social and relational issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. The historical trajectories of Islamic religion, colonialism and Christian missionary activities in sub-Saharan Africa have shaped the worlds of the peoples of the region and impacted on gender relations.

The Culture and Development Manifesto

Author : Robert Klitgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197517730
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Culture and Development Manifesto written by Robert Klitgaard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a manifesto for building on diverse cultural strengths in international development. Gently but firmly, it demonstrates how and why cultural studies and anthropology have fallen short in application-and, arguably, in terms of social science. Nonetheless, anthropology and cultural studies have much to offer, as the book shows through lively examples ranging from West Africa to South Sudan, from Haïti to Hawai'i, from Nepal to Native America. Anthropology can provide distinctive information and compelling descriptions, case studies of successful adaptation and resistance, the deconstruction of cultural texts, useful checklists, and processes for combining outside expertise and local knowledge. Beyond the important task of identifying how cultural features interact with particular projects, The Culture and Development Manifesto displays new ways to think about goals (and risks), new kinds of alternatives, new and perhaps métisse ways to implement, and, as a result, new kinds of politics"--

The Human Rights Council

Author : Damian Etone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594348
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Human Rights Council written by Damian Etone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the engagement of African states with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. This human rights mechanism is known for its pacific and non-confrontational approach to monitoring state human rights implementation. Coming at the end of the first three cycles of the UPR, the work offers a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of African states’ engagement and its potential impact. It develops a framework which comprehensively evaluates aspects of states’ UPR engagement, such as the pre-review national consultation process and implementation of UPR recommendations which, until recently, have received little attention. The book considers the potential for acculturation in engagement with the UPR and unpacks the impact of politics, regionalism, cultural relativism, rights ritualism and civil society. The work provides a useful guide for policymakers and international human rights law practitioners, as well as a valuable resource for international legal and international relations academics and researchers.

Cultural Rights as Human Rights

Author : Unesco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Rights as Human Rights written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Conference report on the cultural factors of human rights - includes papers and records of discussions on the concept of cultural rights in developed countries and developing countries, and covers trends, the impact of tradition, education, mass media, economic development, etc. On cultural change, etc. Conference held in Paris 1968 jul 8 to 13.