Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System: The Political Economy of Human Rights in a Changing World: 15 (Studies in Human Rights) - Tapa dura

Penna, David; McCarthy-Arnolds, Eileen; Sobrepena, Joy

 
9780313290077: Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System: The Political Economy of Human Rights in a Changing World: 15 (Studies in Human Rights)

Sinopsis

This book brings together African and American scholars on human rights and Africa, who look at the broad issues relating to global human rights within the specific context of Africa. The key concerns addressed include notions of traditional human rights, structural adjustment and its effect on human rights, regional integration and the right to development, and political liberalization. In addition to broad themes, the collection looks at instances of human rights concerns in specific states including Liberia (humanitarian intervention), Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya (political liberalization and structural adjustment), Ethiopia (humanitarian assistance), Botswana (traditional human rights formulations), and South Africa (liberation struggle). The volume will be of particular interest to political scientists and legal scholars involved with current African issues as well as human rights organizations and church groups focusing on Africa.

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Acerca del autor

GEORGE W. SHEPHERD, JR., is director of the Center on Rights Development and professor of International and African Studies at the University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies. He has edited or co-edited numerous books, including Effective Sanctions on South Africa, Emerging Human Rights, and The Trampled Grass (Greenwood Press, 1991, 1990, and 1987, respectively). DAVID PENNA is director of publications at the Center on Rights Development and adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies. He has contributed articles to Global Justice, African Rights Monitor, and Africa Today.

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