The impact of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in selected African states

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The year 2016 was declared by the African Union as the African ‘Year of Human Rights with Particular Focus on the Rights of Women’ to commemorate and celebrate significant milestones in the realisation of human rights on the African continent. The year marks the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter), 30th year since coming into force of the African Charter and 10 years since the inauguration of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

The year 2016 was declared by the African Union as the African ‘Year of Human Rights with Particular Focus on the Rights of Women’ to commemorate and celebrate significant milestones in the realisation of human rights on the African continent. The year marks the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter), 30th year since coming into force of the African Charter and 10 years since the inauguration of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Since its adoption, the African Charter has been supplemented by the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol). All AU member states (with the exception of new comer South Sudan) are state parties to the African Charter, and 36 of them have accepted the Maputo Protocol.

 

This book assesses the impact and effectiveness of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in 17 African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The book is the result of research conducted by selected alumni of the Centre for Human Rights’ LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa programme.

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Victor Oluwasina Ayeni is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He also earned his LLM degree from the University of Pretoria; and his LLB degree from the Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State, Nigeria, where he taught and mentored undergraduate students of law for five years before commencing his doctoral research. He is a recipient of many academic awards and prizes for his outstanding performances at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and member of the Nigerian Association of Law
Teachers (NALT). He has published many articles in scholarly journals and his primary research interests are: international human rights law, comparative law, human rights law in Africa, comparative constitutional law and implementation of human rights norms and standards at the domestic level.

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Weight 0.600 kg
Dimensions 25.3 × 17.6 × 1.7 cm
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PublisherPretoria University Law Press (PULP) Publication Date01/07/2016

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