Legalization of Human Rights in Africa: The Institutionalization of Laws Prohibiting State-Sanctioned Violence and Torture (1) (Routledge Contemporary Africa)

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Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties, including the Torture Convention and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. This book assesses the progress African countries have made in institutionalizing human rights laws prohibiting torture, extrajudicial killings, and disappearances domestically.States ratify human rights treaties for a variety of reasons. Some commentators defend an honest sincerity of purpose, whereas others might point to material incentives. The contributors to this volume go beyond the ratification puzzle to instead reframe legalization according to Lon Fuller’s conceptualization of congruence. Congruence is an interactive variable that measures the continuous efforts of government and the public to shape the law and its implementation. By reframing legalization as an ongoing process, the model created by the authors is used to test several hypotheses about what impacts legalization in Africa more broadly, and in countries such as Mali, Cameroon, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Tunisia, more specifically. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that the legalization of human rights is never a finished product, but is a moving target influenced by exogenous and endogenous phenomena.This volume is useful for researchers of genocide, human rights, and atrocity prevention, as well as for those interested in legalization and democratization both within Africa and other regions of the world.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Size:
280 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040327753
Related ISBNs:
9781032749495, 9781040327708, 9781003471677
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Stacey M. Mitchell, Veraline Nchotu, and Lem Lilian Atanga
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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Edited by:
Stacey M. Mitchell
Edited by:
Veraline Nchotu
Edited by:
Lem Lilian Atanga

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