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Author Lindholt, Lone.

Title Questioning the universality of human rights : the African Charter on Human and People's Rights in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique / Lone Lindholt
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, Dartmouth, [1997]
©1997

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Description xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Pt. I. Theoretical issues. 1. General introduction. 2. Human rights and constitutionalism in an African context. 3. A universal concept of human rights? -- Pt. II. Context and genesis of the instruments. 4. Background to the constitutions of Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique. 5. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- Pt. III. Analysis of material human rights provisions in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Constitutions of Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique. 6. Individual civil and political rights and freedoms. 7. Other provisions -- Pt. IV. Conclusion. 8. General conclusions and perspectives -- The African Charter (sample) -- The Constitution of Botswana (sample) -- The Constitution of Malawi (sample) -- The Constitution of Mozambique (sample) -- A "doughnut"-model for regulation of human rights
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-307)
SUBJECT African Charter on Human and People's Rights
African Charter on Human and People's Rights (1981) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93122975
Subject Civil rights -- Botswana.
Civil rights -- Malawi.
Civil rights -- Mozambique.
Human rights -- Africa.
LC no. 97007872
ISBN 1855218283