The African Human Rights System

THE RULES, PRACTICE, AND JURISPRUDENCE OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS, Chiara Giorgetti, ed., Kluwer/Brill, 2011

18 Pages Posted: 14 Jul 2011 Last revised: 17 Aug 2017

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Bart M.J. Szewczyk

Columbia Law School; German Marshall Fund

Date Written: 2011

Abstract

The African human rights system demonstrates that even exposing the truth, as well as the power of persuasion, can remedy human rights violations - albeit in discrete cases and at a disappointingly slow pace. However, there is a regressive institutional trend, whereby the African Court of Justice and Human Rights will have weaker enforcement power compared to its predecessor African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Member States of the African Union should recognize the importance of human rights to their own legitimacy and empower the human rights institutions to enforce their judgments with necessary financial sanctions and appropriate resources to match the challenge that human rights violations continue to pose in Africa.

Suggested Citation

Szewczyk, Bart M.J. and Szewczyk, Bart M.J., The African Human Rights System (2011). THE RULES, PRACTICE, AND JURISPRUDENCE OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS, Chiara Giorgetti, ed., Kluwer/Brill, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1883827

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