• Securing health and wellbeing for children with albinism 

  Msipa, Dianah; Massah, Bonface T.; Van Hout, Marie Claire (Elsevier, 2024-10)

  Albinism is broadly considered a rare disease and is estimated to affect between one in 17 000 and one in 20 000 people worldwide.
• Protecting digital rights through soft law : ensuring the implementation of the revised Declaration of principles on freedom of expression and access to information in Africa 

  Ilori, Oluwatomiwa Timothy (Juta Law, 2024)

  This article examines the use of soft law for digital rights protection in African countries. Focusing particularly on the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, 2019 ...
• Legislation strengthening maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response systems 

  Ngwena, Charles G.; Kismodi, Eszter; Palestra, Francesca; Stahlhofer, Marcus; Mohan, Kalyani (Wiley, 2024-09)

  Historically, countries have primarily relied on policy rather than legislation to implement Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response systems (MPDSR). However, evidence shows significant disparities in how ...
• Moving beyond baby steps An examination of the domestic implementation of concluding observations from state parties' reports on the African Children's Charter 

  Adeola, Aderomola (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2023-10-16)

  Article 43 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child mandates state parties to report on their efforts made towards implementing treaty provisions to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of ...
• Accommodating persons with communication disabilities in court : perspectives of law students 

  Bornman, Juan; Msipa, Dianah (AOSIS, 2024-07)

  BACKGROUND: Individuals with communication disabilities encounter obstacles in attaining equal access to justice compared to others. Despite experiencing widespread violence and abuse, they come across as challenges in ...
• The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level : twenty years on : second revised edition 

  Heyns, Christof H.; Viljoen, Frans; Murray, Rachel H. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-02)

  This collection of chapters tracks and explains the impact of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties in 20 selected countries, four from each of the five UN regions. Researchers based in each of these countries ...
• The Nigerian Anti-Torture Act of 2017 and its compatibility with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 

  Ayo-Ojo, Bayode Sunday (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

  Article 2 of the 1984 Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) obligates states to take measures to prevent torture. While many states have provisions that prohibit ...
• Exploring the experiences of persons living with albinism in Ghana 

  Daklo, Andrew Kwame; Obadire, Olusegun Samson (Taylor and Francis, 2024)

  Albinism is typically misunderstood, resulting in myths and misconceptions about the condition in different parts of the world. This study explores the misconceptions about albinism in Ghana through the lens of lived ...
• Children’s right to digital safety : evaluating the way by which the law can increase effective protection for children in South Africa 

  Nyamadzi, Matikomborera (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-07)

  In the midst of a growing concern for digital security globaly, there is a move towards reforms of legal instruments. however, the improvements are not addressing the root issues in digital insecurity, and thus the law ...
• The legal framework and the role of the state in protecting undocumented immigrants against forced eviction in South Africa 

  Amaechi, Victoria (University of Pretoria, 2024-04-30)

  The 1996 South African Constitution and section 26 of the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation Act guarantee the protection of persons who live in South Africa against unlawful eviction or ...
• Bridging the gaps between human rights and climate governance at the international and regional judicial spheres 

  Luhandjula, Yasmine (Unisa Press, 2023-12)

  Climate litigation underscores the critical role of judicial systems in addressing the legal complexities that emanate from global climate governance. The lead- up to and the aftermath of the Paris Agreement saw the ...
• Advancing queer-inclusive international human rights law education in Nigerian classrooms through indigenous storytelling : stories from a law classroom at Eko (Lagos, Nigeria) 

  Ikpo, David Nnanna Chukwukadibia (Routledge, 2023)

  This study grounds itself in contact theory and imagined contact theory to argue that contact and simulated/imagined contact with queerness contributes to the eradication of homophobic prejudices. Using international human ...
• The domestic legal incorporation and institutionalisation of the international legal prohibition of torture in the federal Republic of Nigeria 

  Ayo-Ojo, Bayode Sunday (University of Pretoria, 2024-01-24)

  The prohibition on torture is an essential aspect of international law that applies universally and is considered a peremptory norm of international law (jus cogens). The explicit prohibition of torture is outlined in ...
• Towards a rights-based approach to media protection in the digital age for meaningful political participation of the electorate in Kenya 

  Simiyu, Marystella Auma (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-13)

  Traditional and online media share the contemporary media landscape in Kenya. Both media types contended with diverse challenges, including the political economy of the media, some restrictive media laws and law enforcement ...
• The right to basic education of immigrant children in the SADC region : a case study of South Africa and the Democratic Republic Of The Congo 

  Nyemba, Nice Mpala (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-11)

  This thesis examines the limitations on migrant children's access to primary education in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, with a focus on South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR ...
• Inclusivity in the settlement of investment disputes : making a case for local communities 

  Kabré, Rimdolmsom (Unisa Press, 2023-12)

  This contribution examines the extent to which the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system takes into consideration the rights and interests of local African communities affected by investment disputes but are not ...
• Self-managed abortion in Africa : the decriminalization imperative in regional human rights standards 

  Pizzarozza, Berro Lucia; Maziwisa, Michelle; Durojaye, Ebenezer (Harvard University Press, 2023-06)

  Self-managed abortion holds particular promise for revolutionizing people’s access to quality reproductive care in Africa, where the burden of abortion-related mortality is the highest globally and where abortion remains ...
• Assessing the implementation of user-centred design standards on assistive technology for persons with visual impairments : a systematic review 

  Ortiz-Escobar, Luisa Maria; Chavarria, Mario Andres; Schonenberger, Klaus; Hurst, Samia; Stein, Michael; Mugeere, Anthony; Velarde, Minerva Rivas (Frontiers Media, 2023-09-06)

  Despite scientific and technological advances in the field of assistive technology (AT) for peoplewith visual impairment (VI), technological designs are frequently based on a poor understanding of the physical and social ...
• Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol 

  Krige, Dalaine (University of Pretoria, 2023-08-30)

  This research examines why women are having bad sex and the role that human rights law can play in acknowledging, challenging and potentially changing it. This paper argues that sexuality is political and that it is affected ...
• A postcolonial legal critique of online expression in Africa 

  Ilori, Oluwatomiwa Timothy (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

  Far beyond the contributions of African and western thought on the right to freedom of expression, there are now normative developments under international human rights law on how states can protect online expression. ...

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