Human rights as a legal concept arrived in Africa relatively late The United Nations (UN) System, international law and the African Union have certainly all ...

While the African Charter guarantees non-discrimination on the basis of sex, equality before the law, and the elimination of discrimination against women, it ...

A brief discussion on civil and political rights follows, before completing with a presentation of economic, social and cultural rights. It is submitted that, ...

Every individual shall be entitled to equal protection of the law. Human beings are inviolable. Every human being shall be entitled to respect for his life and ...

State security forces often replied with serious human rights violations such as extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture. These conflicts ...

The starting point for analyzing human rights and democracy in contemporary. Africa is African nationalism and pan-Africanism' Early on, these movements were ...

Every individual shall be entitled to the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms recognized and guaranteed in the present Charter without distinction of any kind ...

This Guide to the African human rights system has been conceived as an accessible and informative introduction to the human rights system established under ...

Our vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international ...

Normatively, the African Charter is an innovative human rights document. It substantially departs from the narrow formulations of other regional and universal ...