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A post-mortem assessment of the #EndSARS protest and police brutality in Nigeria 对尼日利亚#EndSARS抗议和警察暴行的事后评估

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a7

Bonnievolo E Ecoma

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Editorial 社论

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a10

F. Viljoen

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Leveraging technology to deliver basic education to children in conflict areas of Northern Nigeria 利用技术为尼日利亚北部冲突地区的儿童提供基础教育

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a8

Perekeme Mutu

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Mangwende v Machodo: Bride price refund and the violation of women's rights in contemporary Zimbabwe Mangwinde诉Machodo：退还彩礼与当代津巴布韦侵犯妇女权利的行为

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a9

Priccilar Vengesai

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Juxtaposing emerging community laws and international human rights jurisprudence on the protection of women and girls from harmful practices in Malawi 将关于保护马拉维妇女和女童免受有害习俗侵害的新出现的社区法律和国际人权判例并列

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a6

Tinyade Kachika

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Justice in conflict: Principle of complementarity or principle of competition? 冲突中的正义:互补原则还是竞争原则?

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a4

Noluthando P Ncame

{"title":"Justice in conflict: Principle of complementarity or principle of competition?","authors":"Noluthando P Ncame","doi":"10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a4","url":null,"abstract":"The establishment of a permanent international criminal court was a necessity and the fear of it infringing on a state's sovereignty was real and ever present. As a result of this fear the International Criminal Court could not be awarded primary jurisdiction, and a compromise had to be reached in which it would operate under a regime of complementarity. This article focuses on the Simone Gbagbo case, as the first woman to be charged by the Court, with the object of nuancing the principle of complementarity in the various stages of an international criminal trial and the extent to which it portrays the tension of state sovereignty, tracing it from its infant historical or rudimentary practices to the current practice and making the necessary recommendations. All of this will be done by contextualising it all within the Cote d'lvoire situation, particularly as it relates to complementarity. The article makes recommendations that focus on how and why the lCC should avoid seeking to dictate and impose its prosecutorial strategy on the domestic officials so as to avoid a crisis of its legitimacy being questioned, and the state's refusal to cooperate with the Court. lt concludes with the caution that when the practices of the lCC and its Prosecutor make charging decisions for the state and embrace undermining the prosecutorial discretion of the domestic authorities, then the principle of complementarity will have been officially decimated and the principle of complementarity officially birthed.","PeriodicalId":36136,"journal":{"name":"African Human Rights Law Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45519646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A promising potential: Using the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress to advance public health in Africa 大有希望的潜力:利用享受科学进步惠益的权利促进非洲的公共卫生

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a2

R. Shawa, F. Coomans, Helen Cox, L. London

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A human rights critique of Ghana's Anti-LGBTIQ+ Bill of 2021 对加纳2021年反lgbtiq +法案的人权批评

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a5

Theophilus E Coleman, Ernest Yaw Ako, Joshua G Kyeremateng

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The regional regulation of child labour laws through harmonisation within COMESA, the EAC and SADC 通过东南非共同市场、东非共同体和南共体内部的协调，对童工法进行区域监管

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a3

R. B. Bernard

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From 'puzzling' to comprehensible and efficient: Reform proposals to the African human rights framework through a 'system' lens 从“令人困惑”到可理解和有效:通过“系统”镜头对非洲人权框架的改革建议

African Human Rights Law Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2023/v23n1a1

Apollin Koagne Zouapet

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