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_b.E87 2019
245 0 0 _aExpanding perspectives on human rights in Africa /
_cedited by M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, and Bonny Ibhawoh.
260 _aLondon:
_aNew York:
_bRoutledge;
_c2019.
300 _ax, 298 pages ;
_c24 cm.
490 0 _aThe international political economy of new regionalisms series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: conceptualizing human rights issues in Africa / M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, and Bonny Ibhawoh -- Human rights and the politics of regime legitimation in Africa: from rights commissions to truth commissions / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Human rights in Africa: the African criminal court / Thomas Rose -- Structural inequalities, exclusion and minorities in Africa / Oliver Masakure -- Old-age poverty, human rights, and social protection for the elderly in Nigeria / Olabanji Akinola -- Youth movements: emerging actors of the struggles for civil and political rights in sub-Saharan Africa / Lamine Diallo and Ousmane Aly Diallo -- The sustainable development goals as human rights / Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu and David Zakus -- The United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: historical antecedents and implications for disability rights and socioeconomic development in Africa / Jeff Grischow -- Persons with albinism: not ghosts, but human beings / Jean Burke -- Disability rights are human rights: a situational analysis of persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone / Sylvester Amara Lamin -- Mental health inequities in Africa: a human rights perspective / Consoler Teboh -- Women's land rights in sub-Saharan Africa: between the law and cultural norms / Paul Ocheje -- Women's rights, food entitlements, and governance in urban Uganda / Andrea Brown -- Women's sexual and reproductive rights in contemporary Africa / Ramola Ramtohul -- Towards an inclusive approach to human rights enjoyment and protection in Africa in an age of globalization / M. Raymond Izarali.
520 _a"This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups and persons in Africa and shows 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"--
650 0 _aHuman rights
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aMinorities
_zAfrica
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xSocial conditions
_y21st century.
700 1 _aIzarali, M. Raymond,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aMasakure, Oliver,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aIbhawoh, Bonny,
_eeditor.
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