Expanding perspectives on human rights in Africa. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure and Bonny Ibhawoh.
• Editors: Izarali, M. Raymond; Masakure, Oliver; Ibhawoh, Bonny
• Contents: INTRODUCTION Conceptualizing Human Rights Issues in Africa M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, and Bonny Ibhawoh SECTION I: AFRICA AND UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS Chapter 1: Human Rights and the Politics of Regime Legitimation in Africa: From Rights Commissions to Truth Commissions Bonny Ibhawoh Chapter 2: Human Rights in Africa: The African Criminal Court Thomas Rose SECTION 2: HUMAN RIGHTS AND GOVERNANCE Chapter 3: Structural Inequalities, Exclusion and Minorities in Africa Oliver Masakure Chapter 4: Old-Age Poverty, Human Rights, and Social Protection for the Elderly in Nigeria Olabanji Akinola Chapter 5: Youth Movements: Emerging Actors of the Struggles for Civil and Political Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa Lamine Diallo and Ousmane Aly Diallo Chapter 6: The Sustainable Development Goals as Human Rights Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu and David Zakus SECTION 3: DISABILITY RIGHTS Chapter 7: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Historical Antecedents and Implications for Disability Rights and Socioeconomic Development in Africa Jeff Grischow Chapter 8: Persons with Albinism: not ghosts, but human beings Jean Burke Chapter 9: Disability Rights are human Rights: A Situational Analysis of Persons with Disabilities in Sierra Leone Sylvester Amara Lamin Chapter 10: Mental Health Inequities in Africa: A Human Rights Perspective Consoler Teboh SECTION 4: WOMEN’S RIGHTS Chapter 11: Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between the Law and Cultural Norms Paul Ocheje Chapter 12: Women’s rights, food entitlements, and governance in urban Uganda Andrea Brown Chapter 13: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Africa Ramola Ramtohul CONCLUSION Chapter 14: Towards an Inclusive Approach to Human Rights Enjoyment and Protection in Africa in an Age of Globalization M. Raymond Izarali
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 323.096; Human rights -- Africa; Minorities -- Africa -- Social conditions; Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351398459; 9781351398466; 9781351398442; 9780203761762
• Related ISBNs: 9781138303768
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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