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Human Rights in Africa: From the OAU to the African Union » (New Edition)

Authors: Rachel Murray
ISBN-13: 9780521839174, ISBN-10: 0521839173
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: New Edition

Rachel Murray is Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. She also works on national human rights commissions.

Examines the role of the OAU and how it has dealt with human rights.

1	Historical overview of human rights in the OAU/AU	1
2	The relationship between the OAU/AU and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights	49
3	The link between human rights and democracy	73
4	The relationship between conflict and human rights	116
5	Women and the OAU/AU	134
6	Children's rights in the OAU/AU	163
7	Refugees and human rights	185
8	Development, NEPAD and human rights	235
9	Conclusion	267
App. I	Charter of the Organization of African Unity	271
App. II	Constitutive Act of the African Union	280
App. III	African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights	294