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 ...
The year 2008 saw significant developments towards harnessing the institutional framework for the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa. More financial resources were allocated to the system. The African ...
The year 2009 witnessed numerous human rights developments on the African continent. The African Union added a treaty on the protection of
internally displaced persons to its already robust normative human rights framework. ...
The article examines the results of and insights from the Pretoria Gender
Expert Meeting which was convened with the primary purpose of developing
state reporting guidelines under the African Women’s Protocol. The
focus ...
