Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Subcommittee on International Organizations. Human rights reports and U.S. policy. U.S. voluntary contributions to international organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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.
Survey of Activities, 96th Congress, 1st Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Survey of Activities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Subcommittee on International Organizations. Human rights reports and U.S. policy. U.S. voluntary contributions to international organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Survey of Activities, 96th Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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.
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