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Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties. This book assesses the progress African countries have made in institutionalizing human rights laws prohibiting torture, extrajudicial killings, and disappearances domestically.
List of contents
Introduction to Legalization of Human Rights in Africa
Part I: The Theory, The Model, And The International Regimes Regulating State-Sponsored Violence 1 What is legalization? 2 An integrative model for the assessment of legalization as congruence
3 The international legal framework for prohibitions against torture, disappearances, and political killings
4 The African human rights regim 5 The UN Charter-Based Processes and Evaluations of Africa's Conflicts and Human Rights Protections
Part II: Continent-Wide Progress In The Legalization Of Prohibitions Against Torture, Disappearances And Killings 6 Taking the broad view 7 Do peace missions in Africa matter? 8 How foreign investment fuels social conflicts in Africa
Part III: Case-Studies 9 Cameroon and human rights at a time of national crisis 10 The struggle for human rights in Guinea 11 Civil society and the struggle for human rights in Tunisia 12 Zimbabwe and a reassessment of Institutional Anomie Theory 13 The power of regional peripheries: The making and unmaking of the legalization of human rights in Mali 14 Human rights as a moving target in Botswana 15 Conclusions
About the author
Stacey M. Mitchell is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University's Perimeter College, USA.
Veraline Nchotu is a Research Fellow at Northeastern Illinois University's Genocide and Human Rights Research in Africa and the Diaspora Center, USA.
Lem Lilian Atanga is Associate Professor, Centre for Gender and African Studies, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Summary
Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties. This book assesses the progress African countries have made in institutionalizing human rights laws prohibiting torture, extrajudicial killings, and disappearances domestically.
