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      Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa
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      Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa

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      Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa book

      ByM. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, Bonny Ibhawoh
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 28 February 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203761762
      Pages 310
      eBook ISBN 9780203761762
      Subjects Area Studies, Politics & International Relations
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      Izarali, M.R., Masakure, O., & Ibhawoh, B. (2019). Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203761762

      ABSTRACT

      This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized persons are denied such rights through criminalization and persecution. 

      African countries have a good record of signing and ratifying international and regional rights instruments but the political will and capacity for enforcing these with respect to minorities remain weak. International contributors to the book provide new perspectives on the rights of marginalized and minority groups in different parts of Africa and the extent to which they are deprived or denied entitlement to the universality and equality articulated in law. The authors show that human rights, while having come of age as a moral ideal, has not been fully entrenched in practice towards groups such as children, indigenous populations, the mentally ill, persons with disabilities, and persons with albinism. 

      This volume is geared toward scholars, students, human rights groups, policy makers, social workers, international organizations, and policy makers in the fields of criminology, security studies, development studies, political science, sociology, children studies, social psychology, international relations, postcolonial studies, and African Studies. 

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |1 pages

      Introduction

      Conceptualizing human rights issues in Africa
      ByM. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, Bonny Ibhawoh

      part Section I|1 pages

      Africa and universal human rights

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Human rights and the politics of regime legitimation in Africa

      From rights commissions to truth commissions
      ByBonny Ibhawoh

      chapter 2|24 pages

      Human rights in Africa

      The African criminal court
      ByThomas Rose

      part Section II|1 pages

      Human rights and governance

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Structural inequalities, exclusion, and minorities in Africa

      ByOliver Masakure

      chapter 4|17 pages

      Old-age poverty, human rights, and social protection for the elderly in Nigeria

      ByOlabanji Akinola

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Youth movements

      Emerging actors of the struggles for civil and political rights in sub-Saharan Africa
      ByLamine Diallo, Ousmane Aly Diallo

      chapter 6|17 pages

      The Sustainable Development Goals as human rights

      ByJoannes Paulus Yimbesalu, David Zakus

      part Section III|1 pages

      Disability rights

      chapter 7|17 pages

      The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

      Historical antecedents and implications for disability rights and socioeconomic development in Africa
      ByJeff Grischow

      chapter 8|21 pages

      Persons with albinism

      Not ghosts, but human beings
      ByJean Burke

      chapter 9|14 pages

      Disability rights are human rights

      A situational analysis of persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone
      BySylvester Amara Lamin

      chapter 10|21 pages

      Mental health inequities in Africa

      A human rights perspective
      ByConsoler Teboh

      part Section IV|1 pages

      Women’s rights

      chapter 11|17 pages

      Women’s land rights in sub-Saharan Africa

      Between the law and cultural norms 1
      ByPaul D. Ocheje

      chapter 12|17 pages

      Women’s rights, food entitlements, and governance in urban Uganda

      ByAndrea M. Brown

      chapter 13|17 pages

      Women’s sexual and reproductive rights in contemporary Africa

      ByRamola Ramtohul

      chapter 14|17 pages

      Conclusion

      Towards an inclusive approach to human rights in Africa in an age of globalization
      ByM. Raymond Izarali
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