Human Rights and Development in Africa

Human Rights and Development in Africa focuses on the variety of typical and significant human rights issues that trouble the African continent. The first book to explore these issues in an interdisciplinary manner, its fourteen chapters provide domestic, regional, and international perspectives for assessing the situation. Among the topics given detailed attention are: practices in Southern Africa, women's rights, Islamic thought, the legal and historical background to the African Charter, the role of nongovernmental organizations in protecting African human rights, and the treatment of human rights and development issues in various North-South contexts. In addition, the editors provide a guide to library resources, a lengthy bibliography, the text and substantive assessment of the African Charter, and an integrative overview of major problems in defining and protecting rights in Africa. Contributors to the volume are internationally-known specialists on African politics, human rights, and international political economy.

Politics & Social Sciences

Welch, Claude E., Jr.

Politics & Government

State Univ of New York Pr

Human Rights and Development in Africa focuses on the variety of typical and significant human rights issues that trouble the African continent. The first book to explore these issues in an interdisciplinary manner, its fourteen chapters provide domestic, regional, and international perspectives for assessing the situation. Among the topics given detailed attention are: practices in Southern Africa, women’s rights, Islamic thought, the legal and historical background to the African Charter, the role of nongovernmental organizations in protecting African human rights, and the treatment of human rights and development issues in various North-South contexts. In addition, the editors provide a guide to library resources, a lengthy bibliography, the text and substantive assessment of the African Charter, and an integrative overview of major problems in defining and protecting rights in Africa. Contributors to the volume are internationally-known specialists on African politics, human rights, and international political economy.

A Twentieth-Century Surgeon: My Life in the Massachusetts General Hospital

Watson Pub Intl

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Human Rights and Development in Africa

Human Rights and Development in Africa

A Twentieth-Century Surgeon: My Life in the Massachusetts General Hospital