Compliance With International Human Rights Law in Africa - Essays in Honour of Frans Viljoen

With essays from leading scholars in the field of international human rights law, this festschrift provides compelling analysis of the nature of compliance in the African human rights context, the challenges that affect its place in these legal systems, and the ways in which increased compliance can be achieved.

List of contents

• 1: Romola Adeola: Introduction


• 2: Japhet Biegon: Compliance studies and the African Human Rights System: Reflections on the State of the Field


• 3: Victor Ayeni: Beyond compliance: do decisions of regional human rights tribunals in Africa make a difference?


• 4: Lilian Chenwi: Compliance with the prohibition of the Death Penalty in Africa


• 5: Romola Adeola: Compliance beyond anniversaries: the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (Kampala Convention) in domestic laws and policies


• 6: Remember Miamingi: Legitimacy as a challenge to compliance with the norms on the protection of children in Africa


• 7: Lirette Louw: Member States' Compliance with the Recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights


• 8: Adem K. Abebe: 'Horizontal' compliance with decisions of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights


• 9: Tarisai Mutangi: Enforcing compliance with the judgments of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights: Prospects and challenges

About the author

Romola Adeola is a Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria
in South Africa.

Summary

With essays from leading scholars in the field of international human rights law, this festschrift provides compelling analysis of the nature of compliance in the African human rights context, the challenges that affect its place in these legal systems, and the ways in which increased compliance can be achieved.

Product details

• Authors: Aderomola Adeola, Aderomola (Director of the Global Engageme Adeola, Aderomola (Director of the Global Engagement Network on Internal Displacement in Africa Adeola
• Assisted by: Aderomola (Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law Adeola (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192856999
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285699-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Public International Law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Responsibility of states & other entities