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”).

Abortion: A Fundamental Human Right? Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights in Uganda

Freda LouwesSep 3, 20216 min read
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ANALYSIS Freda Louwes 3 September 2021 Sexual and reproductive health rights are fundamental human rights, according to the Constitution of the World Health Organization and…

Decolonizing Law and its Practitioner’s Minds on the Example of LGBTQI+ Rights

Isabelle ZundelJul 31, 20216 min read
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Source: Teddy Österblom COMMENT Isabelle Zundel 30 July 2021 Inspired by the contributors on the series “Decolonizing Law and Legal Studies” so far, I would…

Decolonisation, Law and Legal Education: A Multimodal View

Prof. Dr Luke MasonJul 30, 20218 min read
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Source: Privatewallmag (2019) COMMENT Prof. Dr. Luke Mason 30 July 2021 It is hardly a radical proposition to suggest that decolonisation is an essentially contested…

Decolonizing the Rule of Law

Prof. Dr Haider HamoudiJul 16, 20215 min read
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Source: Zenya (2020) COMMENT Prof. Dr Haider Hamoudi 16 July 2021 A few years ago, in a book on the crisis of legitimacy facing the…

Collective Human Rights in the Context of Decolonisation

Prof. Dr Bernd KannowskiJul 9, 202110 min read
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Source: Africaindata.com (2015) ANALYSIS Prof. Dr Bernd Kannowski 09 July 2021 What is decolonisation? By decolonisation we mean the processes of replacement that lead to…

Entrenching the CRC’s ‘environmental rights’

Prof. Dr Thoko KaimeJun 30, 20216 min read
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Source: Save the Children International (2020) COMMENT Prof. Dr. Thoko Kaime 30 June 2021 The CRC does not explicitly guarantee children a right to an…