REVUE : African Human Rights Law Journal (vol. 21, n°1, 2021)

Frans VILJOEN

The latest issue of African Human Rights Law Journal (vol. 21, n°1, 2021) is out, with a special focus on "The African Children's Charter at 30: Reflections on its past and future contribution to the rights of children in Africa".

Editorial

Special focus: The African Children's Charter at 30: Reflections on its past and future contribution to the rights of children in Africa

Editorial

Thandeka N Khoza, The Sen-Nussbaum diagram of article 11(3) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: Facilitating the relationship between access to education and development 

Rongedzayi Fambasayi, Michael Addaney, Cascading impacts of climate change and the rights of children in Africa: A reflection on the principle of intergenerational equity 

Robert Doya Nanima, Evaluating the role of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in the COVID-19 era: Visualising the African child in 2050 

Sonia Vohito, The African Children’s Charter and ending corporal punishment of children in Africa: A work in progres 

Avani Singh, Tina Power, Understanding the privacy rights of the African child in the digital era 

Musavengana WT Chibwana, Towards a transformative child rights discourse in Africa: A reflexive study

Articles

Kennedy Kariseb, Understanding the nature, scope and standard operating procedures of the African Commission’s special procedure mechanisms 

Adetokunbo Johnson, Barriers to fulfilling reporting obligations in Africa under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 

Anneth Amin, A teleological approach to interpreting socio-economic rights in the African Charter: Appropriateness and methodology 

Jamil D Mujuzi, The right to return to one’s country in Africa: Article 12(2) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 

Tamo Atabongawung, A legally-binding instrument on business and human rights: Implications for the right to development in Africa 

Nomthandazo Ntlama-Makhanya, Nombulelo Lubisi-Bizani, The ‘Africa we want’ in the African Union’s Agenda 2063 on the realisation of women’s human rights to access justice 

Basutu S Makwaiba, Tension between the individual’s fundamental human rights and the protection of the public from infectious and formidable epidemic diseases 

Henry Paul Gichana, Sub-regional organisations and the responsibility to protect: A case for the localisation and normative repatriation of sub-regional authority for coercive measures 

Oluwatosin B Igbayiloye, Danny Bradlow, An assessment of the regulatory legal and institutional framework of the mining industry in South Africa and Kenya for effective human rights protection: Lessons for other countries 

Buluma Bwire, Migai Akech, Agnes Meroka-Mutua, Utilising the due diligence standard to interrogate Kenya’s accountability efforts with regard to survivors of sexual violence in the 2007-2008 post-election violence 

Nicole Treyson Koske, Tomasz Milej, The right to privacy under the Constitution of Kenya and the criminalisation of consensual sex between same-sex adults 

David Tarh-Akong Eyongndi, The Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 as a harbinger for the elimination of unlawful detention in Nigeria 

Razaq Justice Adebimpe, Liberalisation of Nigeria’s abortion laws with a focus on pregnancies resulting from rape: An empirical analysis 

Matilda Lasseko-Phooko, Safia Mahomed, The challenges to gender equality in the legal profession in South Africa: A case for substantive equality as a means for achieving gender transformation 

Abdulrahman OJ Kaniki, Is the forfeiture of criminally-acquired property in Tanzania compliant with the Constitution? 

Tapiwa G Kasuso, Tinashe Madebwe, The protection of individual labour rights in Zimbabwe

Recent developments

Lisa Chamberlain, Kelebogile Khunou, Realising the right of access to water for people living on farms: The impact of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court decision in Mshengu v uMsunduzi Local Municipality 

Tinashe Kondo, Shadreck Masike, Brian Chihera, Bright Mbonderi, One step forward, two steps back: A review of Mushoriwa v City of Harare in view of Zimbabwe’s constitutional socio-economic rights