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”).

The Contingent Role of the Basic Structure Doctrine for Constitutionalism in Africa

Dr Berihun GebeyeNov 5, 202111 min read
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Source: Ilya Burdun (2020) ANALYSIS Berihun Gebeye 05 November 2021 Kenyan courts’ use of the basic structure doctrine to strike down President Uhuru Kenyatta’s the…

Celebrating African Human Rights Day

Prof. Dr Thoko KaimeOct 23, 20213 min read
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COMMENT Prof. Dr Thoko Kaime, Lena Scheibinger, Isabelle Zundel 21 October 2021 As we celebrate African Human Rights Day today; we look back at one…

Still Fighting for the Rights of all Women Worldwide

Prof. Dr Thoko KaimeOct 15, 20215 min read
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Source: Jaco Blund 2018 COMMENT Lena Scheibinger and Prof. Dr Thoko Kaime 15 October 2021 Regular readers of this blog will know that women’s rights…

Gender Relations in (the) Crisis – Legislating Domestic Violence and Femicide in Ghana

Anna AyehSep 24, 20217 min read
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Source: Roby Pangy ANALYSIS Anna Ayeh 24 September 2021 The Coronavirus pandemic has dragged societal drawbacks into the light of public awareness worldwide – from…

Tunisia’s Women Farmworkers: A Departure from a Victimization Discourse

Dhouha DjerbiSep 17, 20219 min read
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Source: Clay LeConey 2019 ANALYSIS Dhouha Djerbi 17 September 2021 One cannot drive through rural Sidi Bouzid – the birthplace of the 2010 Tunisian revolution…

Living Law and African Women’s Rights in a Digital Era

Linda BesigirohaSep 10, 20217 min read
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Source: Kari Shea (2017) ANALYSIS Linda Besigiroha 10 September 2021 For many women in Africa,[1] ‘everyday’ living represents not ‘ordinary’, but a literal daily struggle…