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Viljoen, Frans; Abebe, Adem Kassie (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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Viljoen, Frans; Orago, Nicholas W. (Faculty of Law, North West University, 2014)No abstract available.
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Kareithi, Monicah Wanjiru; Viljoen, Frans (Cambridge University Press, 2019-10)Woman-to-woman marriage is a form of customary marriage between two women, predominantly found in Africa. These customary marriages have been and to some extent still are conducted by various communities across Africa, ...
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Bradlow, Daniel David; Viljoen, Frans (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2021-07)Professor Christoffel Hendrik (Christof) Heyns, who passed away suddenly and too early in March 2021, was an internationally renowned human rights lawyer, legal educator and activist.
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Adeola, Romola; Viljoen, Frans (Cambridge University Press, 2018-10)Given the need for legislation to protect internally displaced persons, African Heads of State and Government adopted the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa in Kampala in ...
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Adeola, Romola; Viljoen, Frans; Makunya, Trésor Muhindo (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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Viljoen, Frans; Ayeni, Victor Oluwasina (2023-09-29, 2022)This article compares second-order state compliance in respect of regional and sub-regional human rights tribunals (HRTs) in Africa. Using as its unit of analysis the compliance orders issued by these HRTs, the article ...
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Viljoen, Frans (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2011)In hierdie bydrae word vier hedendaagse uitdagings aan international menseregte onder die loep geneem. Hierdie uitdagings is: (1) Die internasionale menseregte-sisteem is oormatig ingewikkeld en gefragmenteerd, dog ...
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Herrera, Clara Burrano; Viljoen, Frans (Kluwer Law International, 2015)This article focuses on the role the African and Inter-American human rights systems in protecting the rights of detainees through interim measures. The need for regional human rights to complement protection at the ...
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Viljoen, Frans (Cambridge University Press, 2009-03)No abstract available
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Viljoen, Frans; Biegon, Japhet (Juta Law, 2014)The United Nations General Assembly in 2006 adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), sparking debate in Africa about the desirability and feasibility of adopting an African pendant to this ...
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Viljoen, Frans (University of Western Cape, 2013)The roots of the African human rights system lie in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Charter). Adopted in 1981, the Charter entered into force in 1986. Its treaty monitoring body, the African Commission ...
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Viljoen, Frans (LexisNexis, 2008)’n Proses om modelwetgewing oor MIV aan te neem is onlangs in die kader van die Parlementêre Forum van die Suider-Afrikaanse Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap (SAOG) geloods. Modelwetgewing word toenemend op die supra-nasionale ...
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Viljoen, Frans (Juta Law, 2006)Over the last six decades, the international human rights discourse shifted from celebrating ever-expanding substantive normative frameworks to questioning the inadequacies in the implementation and enforcement of these ...
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Beredugo, Ayebaesin Jacob; Viljoen, Frans (Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, 2015)Although national Human Rights Commissions (NHRCs) are institutional mechanisms suitable for advancing the domestic implementation of socioeconomic rights, traditional approaches to the advancement of these rights have ...
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Understanding and overcoming challenges in accessing the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Viljoen, Frans (Cambridge University Press, 2018-01)This contribution examines access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the first decade of its operation. Compared with other regional human rights Courts over the corresponding period, the African Court ...
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