Overview
- Explores key issues of human rights ideologies and strategies on the African continent.
- Examines themes concerning: constitutionalism and human rights; sexual rights; public health strategies; transitional justice mechanisms; conflict and gender-based violence; the right to water; struggles for freedom of expression; Africans’ contributions to developments in international human rights and humanitarian law; and the China-Africa-rights nexus.
- Combines the scholarly work of multiple leading thinkers in law, human rights, development, gender studies, media, development studies, political science, and African studies.
Part of the book series: Contemporary African Political Economy (CONTAPE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contemporary Developments and Human Rights
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Front Matter
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Human Rights Norms: Emergence, Features and Tensions
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection explores key human rights themes and situates them in the context of developments on the African continent. It examines critical debates in human rights bringing together conceptually and empirically rich contributions from leading thinkers in human rights and African studies. Drawing on scholarly insights from the fields of constitutional law, human rights, development, feminist studies, public health, and media studies, the volume contributes to scholarly debates on constitutionalism, the right to water, securitization of development, environmental and transitional justice, sexual rights, conflict and gender-based violence, the right to development, and China’s deepening role in Africa. Consequently, it makes an important scholarly intervention on timely issues pertaining to the African continent and beyond.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Eunice N. Sahle is Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies and the Curriculum in Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights in Africa
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Debates and Struggles
Editors: Eunice N. Sahle
Series Title: Contemporary African Political Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51915-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58313-0Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51915-3Published: 01 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2945-7351
Series E-ISSN: 2945-736X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 335
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: African Politics, Development and Social Change, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Human Rights