Human Rights

This is an interdisciplinary platform for exciting insights, opinions, reviews, and critical analyses of human rights issues in Africa. A cross-section of contributors shares and cover human rights issues related to policy, advocacy, practice, and awareness. The insights shared unveil a wide spectrum where human rights principles and theories interface with lived realities of people and communities in Africa.

Besides the blog contributions, the africanlegalstudies.blog and the Chair of African Legal Studies at the University of Bayreuth are constantly developing new initiatives to exchange and engage with scholars and practitioners. These include research projects such as “Intractable Human Rights Issues” or debate series (e.g. “Everyone’s human rights”).

“Carrying the Family Burden”: The Paradox of the Kayayei Migrants in Ghana

John YajalinApr 8, 20229 min read
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ANALYSIS John Yajalin 8 April 2022 Introduction On the 22nd of November, 2021, myjoyonline.com carried a sensational headline: “We are tasked to buy motorbikes and…

Mass influxes from armed conflict in Ukraine: How the African system could provide a model for an expanded global refugee definition

Bantayehu Demlie GezahegnApr 4, 20229 min read
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ANALYSIS Bantayehu Demlie Gezahegn 4 April 2022 In less than a month since 24 February 2022, at least 3.6 million people fled armed conflict in…

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Consultation and Participation in the Inter-American and African human rights system

Isabelle ZundelMar 31, 20229 min read
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In the last two years, we have found ourselves confronted with a series of global crises that seem to have pushed the pressing issues of…

LGBTQI+ Rights

Isabelle ZundelMar 16, 20221 min read
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If the aim of LGBTIQ+ rights discourse is to promote and protect the interests and lives of all LGBTQI+ identifying peoples, what does it mean…

Child Labour

Isabelle ZundelMar 16, 20221 min read
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While the harms of child labour are undisputed and human rights discourse has for decades tried to find solutions, the complexity of the subject remains.…

Celebrating a Salient Revolution – Towards Black Economic Empowerment in South African Mining Law

Ange-Dorine IrakozeFeb 28, 20225 min read
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Source: Artyom Korshunov (2020) ANAYLSIS Ange Dorine Irakoze 28 February 2022 The month of February is devoted to celebration of Black men and women who…