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records and analyses some of the policy-oriented initiatives undertaken in South Africa towards the creation of standards for … banks operating in the region. Experts and practitioners in Africa have come together to determine the realities faced by …
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which it could have been used to promote human rights changes in apartheid South Africa …
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In this paper, we analyse vaccine inequity under international human rights law. In Part 1, we introduce the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, before discussing causes and consequences of vaccine inequity, as well as current efforts to expand global vaccine access. In Part 2, we turn to...
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The degree of justiciability (as well as enforcement) of the socio-economic rights of the African Charter have always played second fiddle to that of the traditional civil and political rights. Over two decades after the coming into force of the Charter, the African Commission has received...
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This paper explores the current problematic rebirth of liberalism in Africa and why the rule of law must be … law in a resurgent Africa must be done, but the failed models of yore should not be replanted. The rebirth of liberalism … in Africa – if that is what Africans want – must be problematized. But that rebirth must deepen democracy to release the …
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This Insight highlights the relationships, dynamics, and cooperation that led to the African Human Rights Court's Order against Libya in the case African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v. Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. In particular, it emphasizes the complex...
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injustice widows endure throughout Africa, and elsewhere, there is no consensus on the importance of changing the customary … widely accepted are now being challenged in the face of the changing socioeconomic conditions in Africa, flagrant human … economy has been imposed by colonial imperialists, the fact is these changes exist, Africa has been transformed and adaptation …
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Termination of pregnancy (TOP) or feticide for severe fetal anomalies is ethically and morally challenging and maybe considered illegal in countries with restrictive abortion laws. While diagnostic modalities such as fetal ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and genetic screening have...
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toward universal care, given its particular socioeconomic circumstances. This underscores the recent trend in Africa toward …
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argument, the first part of this article considers the history of human rights discourse in Africa and its role in the struggle … also takes note of unique features of the African normative human rights framework and areas where Africa has taken the …
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