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Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa

Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa

Author: M. Raymond Izarali; Oliver Masakure; Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138303768
Published In: February 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized persons are denied such rights through criminalization and persecution.

African countries have a good record of signing and ratifying international and regional rights instruments but the political will and capacity for enforcing these with respect to minorities remain weak. International contributors to the book provide new perspectives on the rights of marginalized and minority groups in different parts of Africa and the extent to which they are deprived or denied entitlement to the universality and equality articulated in law. The authors show that human rights, while having come of age as a moral ideal, has not been fully entrenched in practice towards groups such as children, indigenous populations, the mentally ill, persons with disabilities, and persons with albinism.

This volume is geared toward scholars, students, human rights groups, policy makers, social workers, international organizations, and policy makers in the fields of criminology, security studies, development studies, political science, sociology, children studies, social psychology, international relations, postcolonial studies, and African Studies.

INTRODUCTION

Conceptualizing Human Rights Issues in Africa

M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, and Bonny Ibhawoh

SECTION I: AFRICA AND UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Politics of Regime Legitimation in Africa: From Rights Commissions to Truth Commissions

Bonny Ibhawoh

Chapter 2: Human Rights in Africa: The African Criminal Court

Thomas Rose

SECTION 2: HUMAN RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE

Chapter 3: Structural Inequalities, Exclusion and Minorities in Africa

Oliver Masakure

Chapter 4: Old-Age Poverty, Human Rights, and Social Protection for the Elderly in Nigeria

Olabanji Akinola

Chapter 5: Youth Movements: Emerging Actors of the Struggles for Civil and Political Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lamine Diallo and Ousmane Aly Diallo

Chapter 6: The Sustainable Development Goals as Human Rights

Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu and David Zakus

SECTION 3: DISABILITY RIGHTS

Chapter 7: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Historical Antecedents and Implications for Disability Rights and Socioeconomic Development in Africa

Jeff Grischow

Chapter 8: Persons with Albinism: not ghosts, but human beings

Jean Burke

Chapter 9: Disability Rights are human Rights: A Situational Analysis of Persons with Disabilities in Sierra Leone

Sylvester Amara Lamin

Chapter 10: Mental Health Inequities in Africa: A Human Rights Perspective

Consoler Teboh

SECTION 4: WOMEN’S RIGHTS

Chapter 11: Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between the Law and Cultural Norms

Paul Ocheje

Chapter 12: Women’s rights, food entitlements, and governance in urban Uganda

Andrea Brown