Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa

Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781351398459
ISBN-13 : 1351398458
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Book Synopsis Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa by : M. Raymond Izarali

Download or read book Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa written by M. Raymond Izarali and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rig