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Research Articles (Centre for Human Rights): Recent submissions
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(Elsevier, 2022-05)In September, 2021, our edited volume Mental Health, Human Rights and Legal Capacity was published. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to engage with evolving debates related to legal capacity in the field of ...
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(Unisa Press, 2021-12)Electoral malpractices in Africa are multifaceted, intertwined, and complex. Most African countries have held regular elections, albeit often flawed and contested. Elections have been contested because of structural problems ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, 2021)When contemplating whether to introduce disability hate crime as a new substantive offence or as a penalty enhancement of existing crimes, legislators should consider the peculiarities of reporting, investigating and ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)Judicial arms of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa are today active adjudicators of human rights cases. Originally designed to mainly deal with cases regarding regional integration and trade, the courts or ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2021)In order to know how to change one must be able to acknowledge what one does not know. Central to knowledge production of relevance is humility and an understanding of the realities of one’s own environment. From a ...
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(Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, 2021)Available statistics revealed vulnerable and fragile conditions for women in Africa, including Nigeria. This is due to the persistent violation of their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), maternal heath ...
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(Unisa Press, 2021-11-01)No abstract available.
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)The integration of international jurisprudence into the interpretation of the right to health of persons with disabilities by domestic courts is an important way of enhancing protection of the right at the national level. ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2021)In 2006 and 2009, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (African Commission) and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Children’s Committee) respectively, received ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)The African human rights system constitutes non-binding and binding decision-making organs of the African Union (AU). These AU organs include, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission), the ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2021)The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has made considerable progress in its jurisprudential activities in the year 2020. Between January and December 2020 the African Court delivered 55 decisions and received 40 ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2021-05)On 10 September 2019, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa (OAU Refugee Convention) turned 50, while on 23 October 2019 the African Union (AU) ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2021-05)In 2019, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted General Comment No 5 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Right to Freedom of Movement and Residence (Article 12(1)). In this general ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2021-05)Arguably the least discussed root cause of internal displacement, harmful practices are a prevalent concern in many African societies. The explicit mention of harmful practices is one of the many innovations of the Kampala ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2021-05)Over the last several decades, states have demonstrated significant political commitment towards advancing protection and assistance for internally displaced persons. A notable form in which this commitment has been reflected ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2021-05)This article argues that xenophobic acts towards black foreigners remain a human rights challenge in South Africa. Foreign nationals, mostly black Africans, continue to experience physical attacks, discrimination and ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2021-05)This article considers the protection of, and assistance for, internally displaced children (IDCs) in Africa. Internal displacement has become one of Africa's most pressing human rights challenges. Over the last decade, ...
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(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021)Botswana has seen a steady rise in progressive decisions on the rights of LGBTI persons. Most markedly, in a unanimous decision poised to set the pace for juridical recognition of LGBTI rights in Africa, the Botswana ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2022-03)This article revisits the legitimacy question as it touches the Nigerian 1999 Constitution, bringing to the discourse a review and application of pertinent theoretical perspectives on constitution making and constitutional ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2021-06)This special focus on the rights of children under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Children’s Charter) is the second instalment of dedicated articles to mark 30 years since the adoption ...
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