Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT) Resources

 

 

Last updated 04/18/04

 

 

 

African Commission and Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights -Selected Bibliography

 

 

 

 

Akinseye-George, Yemi, New Trends in African Human Rights Law: Prospects of an African Court of Human Rights, 10 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 159 (2001 / 2002).

Baah, Richard Amoako, Human Rights in Africa: The Conflict of Implementation (Lanham, Md. Oxford : University Press of America, 2000).

Benedek, Wolfgang, The African Charter and Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: How to Make it More Effective, 1 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Right 25 (1993).

El-Obaid, El-Obaid Ahmed & Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, Human Rights in Africa -- A New
Perspective on Linking the Past to the Present, 41 McGill Law Journal 819 (August 1996).

Essien, Udeme, The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: Eleven Years
After, 6 State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law Review 93 (2000).

Evans, Malcolm & Rachel Murray (eds.), The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System in Practice, 1986-2000 (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

-        Documents of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights (Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart, 2001).

Heyns, The African Regional Human Rights System: The African Charter, 108 Penn State Law Review 679 (Winter 2004).

Hyden, Cohen, G.  & W. Nagan (eds.), Human Rights and Governance in Africa (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida 1993).

Institute for Human Rights and Development, Compilation of decisions on communications of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights : extracted from the Commission's activity reports, 1994-2001 / Institute for Human Rights and Development (Banjul, Gambia: Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, 2002).

International Commission of Jurists, The participation of NGOs in the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: a compilation of basic documents (Geneva, Switzerland: International Commission of Jurists, 1996).

King-Hopkins, Kimberly D., Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Is its Bark Worse Than its Bite in Resolving Human Rights Disputes? 35 Tulsa Law Journal 421 (Winter 2000).

Lippincott, Amy N., Is Uganda’s “No-party” System Discriminatory against Women and a Violation of International Law?, 27 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 1137 (2002).

Lomo, Zachary A., The Struggle for Protection of the Rights of Refugees and IDPs in
Africa: Making the Existing International Legal Regime Work, 18 Berkeley Journal
of International Law 268 (2000).

Mohamed, Abdelsalam A., Individual and NGO Participation in Human Rights Litigation Before the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights: Lessons from the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, 8 DCL Journal of International Law 377 (Summer, 1999).

Mugwanya, George William, Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights Through the African Regional Human Rights System (Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2003).

-        Realizing Universal Human Rights Norms Through Regional Human Rights Mechanisms: Reinvigorating the African System, 10 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 35 (1999).

Murray, Rachel, The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and International Law (Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2000).

Mutua, Makau wa, Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context, 5 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 75 (1999).

Odinkalu, Chidi Anselm, The Individual Complaints Procedures of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: A Preliminary Assessment, 8 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 359 (Fall 1998).

Oloka-Onyango, J., Reinforcing Marginalized Rights in an Age of Globalization:
International Mechanisms, Non-State Actors, and the Struggle for Peoples' Rights
in Africa, 18 American University International Law Review 851 (2003).

-        The Plight of the Larger Half: Human Rights, Gender Violence and the Legal Status of Refugee and Internally Displaced Women in Africa, 24 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 349 (Spring, 1996).

Olz, Martin A., Non-governmental Organizations in Regional Human Rights Systems, 38 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 307 (Winter, 1997).

Orlu Nmehielle, Vincent O., Towards an African Court of Human Rights: Structuring and the Court, 6 Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law 27 (Spring, 2000).

Peter, Christ Maina, Human Rights in Africa: A Comparative Study of the African Human and Peoples’ Rights Charter and the New Tanzanian Bill of Rights (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990).

Romany, Celina, Black Women and Gender Equality in a New South Africa: Human Rights Law and the Intersection of Race and Gender, 21 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 857 (1996).

Shelton, Dinah, Decision Regarding Communication 155/96 (Social and Economic Rights Action Center/Center for Economic and Social Rights v. Nigeria). Case No. ACHPR/COMM/A044/1. At
<http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/comcases/allcases.html>. African Commission
on Human and Peoples' Rights, May 27, 2002, 96 The American Journal International Law 937 (October, 2002)

Stark, Barbara, Children as Refugees and Displaced Persons: Lost Boys and Forgotten Girls: Intercountry Adoption, Human Rights, and African Children, 22 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 275 (2003).

Udombana, Nsongurua J., An African Human Rights Court and an African Union Court: A Needful Duality or a Needless Duplication? 28 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 811 (2003).

-        So Far, So Fair: The Local Remedies Rule in the Jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, 97 The American
Journal International Law 1 (January 2003).

-        Can the Leopard Change Its Spots? The African Union Treaty and Human Rights, 17 American University International Law Review 1177 (2002).

-        The Institutional Structure of the African Union: A Legal Analysis, 33 California Western International Law Journal 69 (Fall 2002).

-        Toward the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights: Better Late Than Never, 3 Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal 45 (2000).

Welch, Claude E., The African Charter and Freedom of Expression in Africa, 4 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 103 (1998).

-        Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Non-Governmental Organizations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).

-        The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: A Five-year Report and Assessment, 14 Human Rights Quarterly 43 (1992).

Worika, Ibibia Lucky, Deprivation, Despoilation and Destitution: Whither Environment and Human Rights in Nigeria's Niger Delta?, 8 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 1 (Fall, 2001).