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Title

Africa, human rights, and the global system : the political economy of human rights in a changing world / edited by Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds, David R. Penna, and Debra Joy Cruz Sobrepeña.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Sobrepeña, Debra Joy Cruz.
• McCarthy-Arnolds, Eileen.
• Penna, David
• Shepherd, George W.
• University of Denver. Graduate School of International Studies.

Description

xiii, 272 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Based on a conference entitled "Africa and Global Human Rights" held in honor of George W. Shepherd, Jr. 5/7-8/92 and sponsored by the University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies.

Series Statement

Studies in human rights, 0146-3586 ; no. 15

Uniform Title

Studies in human rights no. 15.

Subject

• Human rights > Africa > Congresses
• Civil rights > Africa > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Based on a conference entitled "Africa and Global Human Rights" held May 7-8, 1992 sponsored by the University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Observations on the evolution of African human rights / Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds, David R. Penna, and Debra Joy Cruz Sobrepeña -- Human rights and the liberation struggle : the importance of creative tension / George M. Houser -- Fanon's humanism and the second independence in Africa / Nigel Gibson -- International response. Global poverty, subsistance rights, and consequent obligations for rich and poor states / Marilyn McMorrow -- Civil war in Liberia : a reexamination of the doctrine of nonintervention / Ved P. Nanda -- Tactics of protection : international human rights organizations in the Ethiopian conflict, 1980-1986 / William DeMars -- Regional integration and the right to development in Africa / Michael Niemann -- State response. The one-party state as a threat to civil and political liberties in Kenya / Michele S. Pietrowski -- The state versus human rights advocates in Africa : the case of Nigeria / Pita Ogaba Agbese.
• (Cont.) Professional academic ethics and the structurally adjusted African university / C. George Caffentzis -- Global transformation and democratic reforms in Ghana / Baffour Agyeman-Duah -- Historical approaches. Continuity and change in human rights protection in Botswana : political participation and personal security / David R. Penna -- The status of human rights in pre-colonial Africa : implications for contemporary practices / Nana Kusi Appea Busia, Jr.

ISBN

0313290075 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93001643^

OCLC

28067659

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Harvard Library