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HIV testing from an African human rights system perspective: An analysis of the legal and policy framework of Botswana, Ethiopia and Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses the greatest threat to Africa's efforts to achieve its full potential in the social, economical and political spheres. Cognizant of its devastating consequences, various mechanisms have been ...
Improving compliance with international human law by non-State armed groups in the Great Lakes region of Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Currently, one of the most dramatic threats to human security is constituted by internal armed conflicts. In 1998, violent conflicts took place in at least 25 countries. Of these armed conflicts, 23 were internal, engaging ...
The role of human rights lawyers in rights based approach to reduction of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
Sub-Saharan Africa is a region where extreme poverty is prevalent in spite of the regions apparent commitment to the philosophy of human rights, in that all fifty-three countries in the region ratified the African Charter ...
The African court on human and peoples’ rights: a test of African notions of human rights and justice
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Right (the Court) is the most recent of the three regional Human Rights Bodies. Envisioned by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Right, its structures was not planned until ...
The debate on sexual minority rights in Africa: A comparative analysis of the situation in South Africa, Uganda, Malawi and Botswana'
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Gays, lesbians,2 and laws that criminalise homosexuality3 in Africa have been the subject of heated
public debate in recent times.a Criminalisation and attempts at re-criminalisation of homosexuality in
some African ...
Revisiting the role of sub-regional courts in the protection of human rights in Africa
(2009)
When the Rome Statute was being drafted, referral of a situation by a state party was thought to have the least potential for making the International Criminal Court (hereinafter referred to as the ICC) operational. It was ...