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    The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level : twenty years on : second revised edition
    (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-02) Heyns, Christof H.; Viljoen, Frans; Murray, Rachel H.
    This collection of chapters tracks and explains the impact of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties in 20 selected countries, four from each of the five UN regions. Researchers based in each of these countries were responsible for the chapters, in which they assess the influence of the treaties and treaty body recommendations on legislation, policies, court decisions and practices. By covering the 20 years between July 1999 and June 2019, this book updates a study done 20 years ago.
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    The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa : a commentary
    (Pretoria University Law Press, 2023) Rudman, Annika; Musembi, Celestine Nyamu; Makunya, Trésor Muhindo
    Since its adoption on 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) has become a landmark on the African human rights landscape. It has steadily gained prominence as a trail-blazing instrument, responsive to the diverse realities of women on the African continent. This comprehensive Commentary on the Maputo Protocol, the first of its kind, provides systematic analysis of each article of the Protocol, delving into the drafting history, and elaborating on relevant key concepts and normative standards. This Commentary aims to be a ‘one-stop-shop’ for anyone interested in the Maputo Protocol, such as researchers, teachers, students, practitioners, policymakers and activists.
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    Article 11 : Protection of women in armed conflicts
    (Pretoria University Law Press, 2023) Makunya, Trésor Muhindo; Abelungu, Junior Mumbala
    1. States parties undertake to respect and ensure respect for the rules of international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflict situations, which affect the population, particularly women. 2. States parties shall, in accordance with the obligations incumbent upon them under international humanitarian law, protect civilians including women, irrespective of the population to which they belong, in the event of armed conflict. 3. States parties undertake to protect asylum seeking women, refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons, against all forms of violence, rape and other forms of sexual exploitation, and to ensure that such acts are considered war crimes, genocide and/or crimes against humanity and that their perpetrators are brought to justice before a competent criminal jurisdiction. 4. States parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure that no child, especially girls under 18 years of age, take a direct part in hostilities and that no child is recruited as a soldier.
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    Article 15 : Right to food security
    (Pretoria University Law Press, 2023) Makunya, Trésor Muhindo; Bwanaisa, Mercy
    States Parties shall ensure that women have the right to nutritious and adequate food. In this regard, they shall take appropriate measures to: (a) provide women with access to clean drinking water, sources of domestic fuel, land, and the means of producing nutritious food; (b) establish adequate systems of supply and storage to ensure food security.
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    The African regional human rights system and other regional systems : a comparative analysis
    (Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists, Nairobi., 2006) Killander, Magnus
    This article examines the different legal frameworks and experiences of the European and Inter-American regional human rights systems. Particular focus is given to experiences of interest to the future work of the African Court.
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    African regional human rights system
    (University of Deusto, Bilboa, 2006) Gomez Isa, Felipe; De Feyter, Keon; Heyns, C.H. (Christof H.); Killander, Magnus
    This contribution first introduces the main legal instruments relevant to the continental protection of human rights in Africa, then discusses the norms recognised (individual and peoples' rights and duties, etc) and thereafter turns to the regional institutional structures set up to achieve the implementation of the norms. This institutional overview focuses primarily on four important pillars of the African human rights system: the organs of the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the yet to be established African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the newly established African Peer Review Mechanism