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African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/37278 African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime Georgijevic, Shivani Ayalew, Albab Tesfaye Unconstitutional changes African Union (AU) African Court of Justice Empowerment Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) Organisation of African Unity (OAU) UCTD Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012. In its latest attempt to curb the plight of unconstitutional changes of government in Africa, the African Union (AU) is in the process of empowering the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) to prosecute perpetrators of unconstitutional changes of government in member states. This study considers the prospects and challenges of such prosecution by the proposed African Court. The study first identifies the normative and institutional framework developed by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), and later the AU to address unconstitutional changes of government in the continent. It then analyses the AU’s response to unconstitutional changes of government in member states, taking Guinea, The Comoros, Niger, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya as case studies. In doing so, it identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the AU’s response to the changes in these countries, including the capability of the AU’s normative and institutional framework to address all forms of unconstitutional changes in the region. Most importantly, the study addresses the challenges and prospects of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government by the proposed African Court and whether the Court would be able to overcome the short-comings identified in the case studies. It finally concludes and recommends based on the findings of the study. gm2014 Centre for Human Rights unrestricted 2014-04-01T09:08:51Z 2014-04-01T09:08:51Z 2012-10-31 2012 Mini Dissertation Ayalew, AT 2012, African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime, LLM dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37278> F13/9/1169/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37278 en © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Unconstitutional changes African Union (AU) African Court of Justice Empowerment Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) Organisation of African Unity (OAU) UCTD African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime |
| title | African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime |
| title_full | African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime |
| title_fullStr | African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime |
| title_full_unstemmed | African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime |
| title_short | African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights : prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime |
| title_sort | african court of justice and human and peoples rights prospects and challenges of prosecuting unconstitutional changes of government as an international crime |
| topic | Unconstitutional changes African Union (AU) African Court of Justice Empowerment Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) Organisation of African Unity (OAU) UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37278 |