The African human rights system, activist forces and international institutions / Obiora Chinedu Okafor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okafor, Obiora Chinedu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Rights Africa (Organization).

Human rights--Africa.

Human rights.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

The African Human Rights System, Activist Forces & International Institutions

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

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Summary:

This 2007 book draws from and builds upon many of the more traditional approaches to the study of international human rights institutions (IHIs), especially quasi-constructivism. The author reveals some of the ways in which many such domestic deployments of the African system have been brokered or facilitated by local activist forces, such as human rights NGOs, labour unions, women's groups, independent journalists, dissident politicians, and activist judges. In the end, the book exposes and reflects upon the inherent inability of the dominant compliance-focused model to adequately capture the range of other ways - apart from via state compliance - in which the domestic invocation of IHIs like the African system can contribute - albeit to a modest extent - to the pro-human rights alterations that can sometimes occur in the self-understandings, conceptions of interest or senses of appropriateness held within key domestic institutions within states.

Contents:

Conventional conceptions of the African system for the promotion and protection of human and peoples' rights

The impact of the African system within Nigeria

The utilization of the African system within South Africa

Limited deployment of the African system within African states: further evidence and a general evaluation

Toward an extended measure of IHI effectiveness: a quasi-constructivist perspective

Conclusion

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511494048

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