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The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa?
Prepared under the supervision of Prof. J. Oloka-Onyango, Faculty of Law, Makerere University
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/984 The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa? Oloka-Onyango, J. Ayinla, Abiola R. UCTD African Union Constitutive Act Human rights Prepared under the supervision of Prof. J. Oloka-Onyango, Faculty of Law, Makerere University Mini Dissertation (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2003. "The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one provides the context in which the study is set, the focus and objectives of the study, its significance, and other preliminary issues including the hypothesis and literature survey. Chapter two first seeks to briefly portray the current state of human rights in Africa. In the second part, history and development of the African Union is traced, within the context of its predecessor - the OAU. Its third part extracts and analyses the specific human rights content of the AU Constitutionve Act and other relevant provisions, both independently and collectively; while its fourth part progresses to examine the conribution of the AU to human rights so far, by gauging and scrutinizing the human rights content of its summits. The fifth and final part scrutinizes the implications of the linkage of human rights to development and hence, its re-conceptualisation or otherwise, in Africa. Chapter three seeks to examine the extant implications of the AU human rights agenda on the existing human rights protection framework. First, it provides a brief overview of the existing regional human rights protection system, while its second part elucidates the human rights enforcement mechanisms that have been developed under the African Charter system. Its third part seeks to examine the problem of enforcement of, and non-compliance with human rights in Africa, with a view to understanding the problem, and forging a way forward. Its fourth part looks at the relationship between the AU and the existing human rights institutions within the context of the AU Constituve Act, while its concluding part addresses the latent risk of proliferation and redundancy that might attend the proposed creation of more human rights-oriented institutions under the AU/NEPAD; proposing rationalization of the same and the fusion of compatible mandates, with the view of avoiding unnecessary and expensive duplications. Chapter four seeks to present the probable picture of the fusion of the emerging and existing frameworks. Its first part sets out to describe, as well as explicate the justifications for the proposed human rights enforcement framework under the AU, citing models. Its second part seeks to explore the potentialities of trade as veritable tool of sanction within the proposed structure, while its concluding part seeks to do the same in relation to the device of peer pressure. The fifth and final chapter of the study seeks to draw some conclusions and further give recommendations on how the proposed hybrid framework can be achieved, while emphasizing the importance of such synergy as a feasible solution of the problem of human rights enforcement in Africa." -- Chapter 1. http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html Centre for Human Rights LLM 2006-10-23T10:47:32Z 2006-10-23T10:47:32Z 03-Oct 2003 Mini Dissertation Ayinla, AR 2003, The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa?, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/984> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/984 en LLM Dissertations 2003(4) Centre for Human Rights, Law Faculty, University of Pretoria 270669 bytes application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD African Union Constitutive Act Human rights The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa? |
| title | The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa? |
| title_full | The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa? |
| title_fullStr | The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa? |
| title_short | The African (AU) human rights agenda : the panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa? |
| title_sort | african au human rights agenda the panacea to the problem of non compliance with human rights norms in africa |
| topic | UCTD African Union Constitutive Act Human rights |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/984 |