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Welch, Claude E., Jr.

 
9780812217803: Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations
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ISBN 10: 0812217802 ISBN 13: 9780812217803
Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2001

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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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Informazioni sull'autore

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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Editore
Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0812217802
ISBN 13 
9780812217803
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
376
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Persona responsabile
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