Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) - Softcover

Jr., Claude E. Welch

 
9780812217803: Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0812217802 ISBN 13: 9780812217803
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001

Synopsis

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996
Since the 1950s, sub-Saharan Africa has been the site of profound political changes initiated by ascendant nationalism and rapid decolonization. With this new beginning came fresh challenges involving many crucial aspects of human rights: self-determination; civil and political rights, including government legitimacy; military involvement in African politics; and unfulfilled basic needs that have cried out for economic and social development.
Protecting Human Rights in Africa is the first major comparative study of the way human rights NGOs have brought revolutionary change south of the Sahara. Governments are both the most important protectors and abusers of human rights, while NGOs have become the most effective detectives in discovering abuses and the most active advocates in seeking solutions.

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About the Author

Claude E. Welch, Jr. is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights Center and Program on International and Comparative Legal Studies, at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0812217802
ISBN 13 
9780812217803
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
376