Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights Through the African Regional Human Rights System

This volume examines the prospect of an African regional human rights system as a means to foster the realization of establishing universal human rights norms in Africa. The author argues that although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the role the United Nations plays in promoting global awareness of human rights has had a positive influence in Africa, their institutional, financial and political impediments undercut the ability of a global system to address adequately the crisis in human rights violations occurring in Africa today.