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Human rights and development in Africa / edited by Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Ronald I. Meltzer. [electronic resource]
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--Africa.
- Civil rights.
- Human rights--Africa.
- Human rights.
- Africa--Economic conditions.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 349 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1984.
- Contents:
- Human Rights as a Problem in Contemporary Africa / CLAUDE E. WELCH, JR.
- Traditional Conceptions of Human Rights in Africa / LAKSHMAN MARASINGHE
- Women's Rights in English-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa / RHODA HOWARD
- A Modern Approach to Human Rights in Islam: Foundations and Implications for Africa / ABDULLAHI AHMED EL NAIEM
- Human Rights in Southern Africa: The Mote in Thy Brother's Eye / RICHARD WEISFELDER
- The Banjul Charter on Human and People's Rights: Genesis and Political Background / EDWARD KANNYO
- The Banjul Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: A Legal Analysis / RiCHARD GITTLEMAN
- Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations in Black Africa: Their Problems and Prospects in the Wake of the Banjul Charter / HARRY M. SCOBLE
- International Human F,.ights and Development: Evolving Conceptions and Their Application to Relations between the. European Community and the African-Caribbean-Pacific States / RONALD I. MELTZER
- The Political Economy of Self-Detennination: A World Systems Approach to Human Rights in Africa / TIMOTHY M. SHAW
- Global Power and Self-Detennination: The Case of Namibia / GEORGE W. SHEPHERD, JR.
- The "Right to Development": How Not to Link Human Rights and Development / JACK DONNELLY
- Research Problems and Library Resources on Human Rights in Africa / CORINNE NYQUIST
- Bibliography / CLAUDE E. WELCH, JR., and VICKI M. KRAFT
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Appendices (p. 317-339): I. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- II. Concordance of basic human rights guaranteed in the Banjul charter and other major human rights treaties / Robert C. Wigton -- III. Major African conferences on human rights, 1961-81 (locations, dates, and sources).
- Bibliography: p. [301]-316.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-2379-9
- 0-585-06857-7
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