Public Law Studies Quarterly

The Encounter of Sovereignty and Man in Africa’s Human Rights Judicial Mechanism

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Authors

Seyed Fazlollah Mousavi 1
Hamidreza Oraee 2

1 Prof., Department of Public & International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. in International Public Law, Alborz Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2021.302034.2417
Abstract
Human rights, is one of the emerging concepts that is in conflict with sovereignty, in its traditional sense. The African continent, which symbolized colonialism, dictatorship, and human right abuses in the past centuries, is now trying to change the situation in favor of human beings by creating judicial structures for the protection of human rights. Africa’s judicial system of human rights protection, with its practice and the endeavor to update its main instrument, is trying to improve the human rights situation in Africa. The extensive referral to international human rights literature and the excessive attention to the European human rights judicial system are respectively the strength and weakness of the African Human rights system. The lack of real sovereignty in the past and tribal definitions of sovereignty and human beings, are serious obstacles to the efficient functioning of the African continent’s judicial system for the protection of human rights.

Keywords

African Union
human rights
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
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Public Law Studies Quarterly
Volume 52, Issue 1
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
Pages 145-161

  • Receive Date 02 May 2020
  • Revise Date 13 November 2020
  • Accept Date 25 January 2021

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