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Published: 24 April 2022

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Manirakiza, Pacifique. "Towards a Right to Resist Gross Undemocratic Practices in Africa." Journal of African Law 63, S1 (2019): 81–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855319000020.

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AbstractThe adoption of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) has been a milestone for the transformation of Africa's political landscape. This instrument seeks to expand on the ideals of liberal democracy enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African Union and other African fundamental instruments. The ACDEG seems to pave the way for the right to democracy for Africans, which entails, inter alia, political sovereignty of African citizens. The latter have clearly and vigorously exercised their sovereignty through elections when given such an opportunity. However

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GRANT, EVADNÉ. "HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND CUSTOMARY LAW IN SOUTH AFRICA." Journal of African Law 50, no. 1 (2006): 2–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855306000039.

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In the joined cases of Bhe v. Magistrate Khayelitsha and Others; Shibi v. Sithole and Others; South African Human Rights Commission and Another v. President of the Republic of South Africa and Another (2005(1) B.C.L.R. 1 (CC)), the South African Constitutional Court held unanimously that the male primogeniture rule according men rights to inheritance not enjoyed by women enshrined in the South African Customary Law of Succession violated the right to equality guaranteed under section 9 of the South African Constitution. On one level, the decision can be seen as a triumph for the universality o

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BERNA, Maria Beatrice. "Customary Law and Woman s Rights within the African System of Human Rights Protection." Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Law IV, no. 1 (2015): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenlaw.2015.0401.05.

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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira. "The Right to Compensation for Wrongful Conviction/Miscarriage of Justice in International Law." International Human Rights Law Review 8, no. 2 (2019): 215–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22131035-00802003.

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Human rights treaties (including Article 14(6) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (iccpr); Article 3 of the Protocol No. 7 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; and Article 10 of the American Convention on Human Rights) explicitly protect the right to compensation for wrongful conviction or miscarriage of justice. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights is silent on this right. The Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Inter-Ameri

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Durojaye, Ebenezer. "An analysis of the contribution of the African human rights system to the understanding of the right to health." African Human Rights Law Journal 21, no. 2 (2021): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2021/v21n2a30.

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The right to health is one of the important rights guaranteed in international and regional human rights instruments. Over the years the content and nature of this right have evolved through the works of scholars and clarifications provided by human rights treaty bodies. Focusing on the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, this article assesses the contributions of the African human rights system towards the advancement of the right to health. It outlines some of the major achievements in terms of normative framework as exemplified by the provisions of the Protocol to t

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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira. "The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its promotion and protection of the right to freedom from discrimination." International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 17, no. 2 (2017): 86–136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1358229117712828.

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The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission, was established by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Charter, with the mandate to promote and protect human and peoples’ rights in Africa. The right to freedom from discrimination is one of the rights provided for in the African Charter. In this article, the author examines the individual communications, state party reports, concluding observations of the African Commission on state party reports and the resolutions passed by the African Commission to highlight the ways in which the African

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Joshua, Ayobami, and Simisola Akintoye. "EVALUATION OF THE RULE OF LAW AS A PRE-REQISITE TO THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA." Denning Law Journal 31, no. 1 (2020): 93–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v31i1.1717.

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Africa faces myriads of challenges one of which is the need for development; as a result, development is a critical issue in Africa. The apparent disparity and inequity of the global economic system in the aspect of international economic development, conspicuous particularly on the Africa continent has dominated academic discourses since the era of the decolonization of the undeveloped countries. One of the direct consequences of this was the evolution of right-based approach to development agenda which have implications for democracy and the rule of law; two elements that have suffered serio

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Bekker, Gina. "The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights: Safeguarding the Interests of African States." Journal of African Law 51, no. 1 (2007): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855306000210.

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AbstractThis article examines the extent to which the decision to establish the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights was motivated by the desire of African states to safeguard their own interests at the expense of effectively protecting human rights in Africa. Using an examination of the drafting history of the Banjul Charter and the establishment of the African Commission as a background, this article explores the potential implications for the future of human rights protection on the continent as a result of the creation of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and its propose

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Okafor, Obiora C., and Godwin EK Dzah. "The African human rights system as 'norm leader': Three case studies." African Human Rights Law Journal 21, no. 2 (2021): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2021/v21n2a27.

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Africa (including its human rights system) is rarely imagined or considered an originator, agent and purveyor of ideas, including in the human rights sphere. On this occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption of the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights which founded the African human rights system, it is only fitting that its contributions or otherwise to global human rights praxis, over these four decades, be examined from this perspective. Utilising the theory of the norm life cycle, developed by scholars of international relations who work within 'strategic social con

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Amoah, Jewel, and Tom Bennett. "The Freedoms of Religion and Culture under the South African Constitution: Do Traditional African Religions Enjoy Equal Treatment?" Journal of Law and Religion 24, no. 1 (2008): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0748081400001910.

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On Sunday, January 20, 2007, Tony Yengeni, former Chief Whip of South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), celebrated his early release from a four-year prison sentence by slaughtering a bull at his father's house in the Cape Town township of Gugulethu. This time-honored African ritual was performed in order to appease the Yengeni family ancestors. Animal rights activists, however, decried the sacrifice as an act of unnecessary cruelty to the bull, and a public outcry ensued. Leading figures in government circles, including the Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jord

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