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(The American Society of Comparative Law, 2012)This Article analyzes the extent to which some of the highest courts in Africa have tackled the potential conflict between the power of judicial review on the one hand, and public opinion on the other, by looking at two ...
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(Juta Law, 2013)Each year, unsafe abortion causes the death of thousands of women, rendering them seriously ill and disabling many more in the African region. Highly restrictive abortion law is a major causative factor. Among United Nations ...
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(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 ...
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Accountability for the Gukurahundi atrocities in Zimbabwe thirty years on : prospects and challenges (Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, 2015)It is estimated that between 10 000 and 20 000 civilians were killed by state and state sponsored agents between 1982 and 1988 in Zimbabwe. In addition to murder, there were widespread torture, rape and other sexual offences, ...
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(Africa Institute of South Africa, 2017-12)This article aims to assess the possible options and prospects for actualising the right to development (RTD) in Africa. Mindful of the controversy surrounding the legal status of the RTD, the article starts by problematising ...
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(LLC “СPС “Business Perspectives”, 2014)Mass migration as a way of adapting to climate change impact is not new. However, the total migration of a permanent population from a defined territory as a coping response to the impact of climate change is only emerging. ...
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(Malawi Law Society, 2009)The inauguration of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in 2006 heralded a new phase in trans-national judicial implementation of human rights in Africa, but it also brought new legal challenges with it. ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Universal Health Coverage (UHC) forces governments to consider not only how services will be provided – but which services – and to whom, when, where, how and at what cost. This paper considers the implications for ...
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(Juta Law, 2013)Botswana's Refugee (Recognition and Control) Act has been in force since 1967. It was promulgated before Botswana became a state party to the UN Refugee Convention and its Protocol and before its accession to the OAU Refugee ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002-02)Within the domain of respect for human and peoples’ rights by African states there has been, until recently, little unity of purpose. The common standards that African states have maintained in their laws and practices ...
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(Duncker & Humblot, 2003)The article examines the objectives and institutional structure of the African Union (AU) in the light of the experiences of its predecessor the Organization of African Unity (OAU) as well as the African Economic Community ...
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(Juta Law, 2009)This article focuses on the establishment of the Panel of the Wise in the African Union peace and security architecture. It examines the basis, design and role of the Panel, and explores the possibilities that can be ...
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(Juta Law, 2014)Articles 14(1)(d) and (e) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa specifically provide for women’s sexual and reproductive health rights in the context of HIV. ...
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(Sage, 2014)Debates and discussions about the African renaissance and the Africanisation of universities have raged for decades. The goal of developing an emancipatory Afrocentric system that frees African education from the continuous ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2014-02-11)A solid stream of cases have been submitted to the quasi-judicial and judicial treaty monitoring bodies making up the African regional human rights system, namely the African Commission, the African Children’s Rights ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa was adopted under article 66 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to supplement the provisions on women’s ...
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(Juta Law, 2006)While the right to freedom from torture is one of the few non-derogable rights, it is also one of the rights commonly violated in Africa. The right to freedom from torture is protected under article 5 of the African Charter. ...
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(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014)Are anarchy and the law antithetical? Not so, as for more than 350 years international law has governed a legal order based on anarchy; wherein no central authority exists and law functions not on the basis of coercion but ...
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(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)On April 20, 2012, the Kenyan High Court delivered a ground-breaking decision that will, inter alia, enhance national, regional and international efforts aimed at improving access to affordable and essential medicines, ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)This article argues that article 30(d) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in fact, in some instances, may impede the actualisation of the best interests of the children of incarcerated mothers ...
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