Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Report of the Northern Rhodesia Independence Conference, 1964
Author: Report of the Northern Rhodesia Independence Conference Held in London in May 1964
Author: Northern RhodesiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Northern Rhodesia
Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book
Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights [2-Volume Set]
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Author: NAT. RUBNERPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847013805
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) was the first non-Western declaration of human rights. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Volume 1 outlines the dominant African political and cultural ideas upon which the OAU (now African Union) was founded. Volume 2 describes the process through which the ACHPR came into being.
Report
Author: Negotiating the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1959-1964
Author: Peter DockingPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030880915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book examines conferences and commissions held for British colonial territories in East and Central Africa in the early 1960s. Until 1960, the British and colonial governments regularly employed hard methods of colonial management in East and Central Africa, such as instituting states of emergency and imprisoning political leaders. A series of events at the end of the 1950s made hard measures no longer feasible, including criticism from the United Nations. As a result, softer measures became more prevalent, and the use of constitutional conferences and commissions became an increasingly important tool for the British government in seeking to manage colonial affairs. During the period 1960-64, a staggering sixteen conferences and ten constitutional commissions were held for British colonies in East and Central Africa. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed overview of how the British sought to make use of these events to control and manage the pace of change. The author also demonstrates how commissions and conferences helped shape politics and African popular opinion in the early 1960s. Whilst giving the British government temporary respite, conferences and commissions ultimately accelerated the decolonisation process by transferring more power to African political parties and engendering softer perceptions on both sides. Presenting both British and African perspectives, this book offers an innovative exploration into the way that these episodes played an important part in the decolonisation of Africa. It shows that far from being dry and technical events, conferences and commissions were occasions of drama that tell us much about how the British government and those in Africa engaged with the last days of empire.
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Author: Nat RubnerPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847013546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that eventually brought it into being and determined its content. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), which was proposed in 1979, adopted in 1981 and came into effect in 1986, was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. With Africa largely absent in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, it stands in stark historical reproach to the Western conception of universal human rights as a pivotal document in the decolonisation of the continent. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, which is key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Through documenting its process of construction, it becomes possible to understand how Africans themselves understood the process and the issues involved and how the ACHPR became a political text asserted by African leaders and not a continuum of a so-called universal human rights tradition. The result is a radical repositioning of the underlying context of the ACHPR, one of the most important documents in modern African history, of how it came to be and how it should therefore be understood. Volume 2 describes the process through which the ACHPR came into being. Analysing the role of Western governments, the UN and NGOs, it shows that, contrary to the prevailing view of African human rights commentators, their influence was limited and at times counter-productive. That, in fact, the formulation of the ACHPR was a profoundly political process that was primarily a product of an African desire to instigate its own human rights perspective as a counter to the human rights universalism advanced by the Western post-war human rights tradition.
Report of the Constitutional Commission, 1968
Author: Southern Rhodesia. Constitutional CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
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