Human Rights Under African Constitutions
Subtitle: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780812236774
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Political Science; Human rights; Politics / Current Events; Rule of law; Politics/International Relations; Government - Comparative; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Law / Human Rights; Africa; Politics and government
First sentence: The value added of international standards of human rights is that they are universally valid and legally binding on states that have ratified the relevant treaties or are bound by applicable customary international law principles, subject to clarification and qualification below.