Regional Law of Refugee Protection in Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198826224)

This book analyses the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa, including both refugee and human rights law as well as treaty and institutional elements. The regime is addressed in two parts.

Part One analyses the relevant treaties: the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The latter two regional
instruments are examined in depth. This includes the first fulsome account of the African Refugee Convention's drafting, an interpretation of its unique refugee definition and original analysis of the relationships between the three treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the systemic
relationship between the international and the regional refugee treaties and to the discrete relationships of conflict and complementary relationships between the two refugee instruments, as well as to the relationships between the African Refugee Convention and African Charter.

Part Two focuses on the institutional architecture supporting the treaty framework. The Organization of African Unity is addressed in a historical sense, and the contemporary roles of the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the current and contemplated African
human rights courts are examined. This book is the first devoted to the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa.


Author: Marina Sharpe
ISBN-10: 0198826222
ISBN-13: 9780198826224
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2018
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.00d