Welcome to the African Human Rights Law Journal (AHRLJ)
ISSN: 1609-073X
E-ISSN: 1996-2096
Welcome to the website of the African Human Rights Law Journal (AHRLJ), a leading peer-reviewed journal focused on human rights related topics of relevance to Africa, Africans and scholars of Africa. As democratic practices and the protection of human rights struggle to become rooted in Africa, the Journal aims to contribute towards strengthening indigenous African scholarship.
The first issue of the AHRLJ appeared in 2001. Since then, the Journal has appeared twice a year, in July and December, without interruption.
The full text of the AHRLJ is made freely available online immediately upon publication. The AHRLJ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The AHRLJ is published by the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) which took over from Juta as publisher in 2013. It is published in association with the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.
The AHRLJ still publishes a small amount of printed copies for each volume, which are sent out to the required Legal Depository addresses as per the Legal Deposit Act, Act 54 of 1997. All journal content, dating back to the first issue of 2001, is available and will be maintained on the Journal’s web site (www.ahrlj.up.ac.za). Earlier issues of the Journal are also availabel from JUTA Publisher (https://juta.co.za/catalogue/african-human-rights-law-journal-2000-2012-online_22320/).
The Journal is published only in English.
Feedback and criticism: Any suggestions for improving any aspect of the Journal, including its content and editorial approach, are welcomed, and should be submitted at any time to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Latest Edition: AHRLJ Volume 21 No 1 2021
AHRLJ Volume 21 No 1 2021
Published by Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)
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Editorial
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Special focus: The African Children’s Charter at 30: Reflections on its past and future contribution to the rights of children in Africa
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The Sen-Nussbaum diagram of article 11(3) of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: Facilitating the relationship between access to education and development
by Thandeka N Khoza
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Cascading impacts of climate change and the rights of children in Africa: A reflection on the principle of intergenerational equity
by Rongedzayi Fambasayi and Michael Addaney
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Evaluating the role of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in the COVID-19 era: Visualising the African child in 2050
by Robert Doya Nanima
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The African Children’s Charter and ending corporal punishment of children in Africa: A work in progress
by Sonia Vohito
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Understanding the privacy rights of the African child in the digital era
by Avani Singh and Tina Power
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Towards a transformative child rights discourse in Africa: A reflexive study
by Musavengana WT Chibwana
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Articles
Understanding the nature, scope and standard operating procedures of the African Commission’s special procedure mechanisms
by Kennedy Kariseb
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Barriers to fulfilling reporting obligations in Africa under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
by Adetokunbo Johnson
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A teleological approach to interpreting socio-economic rights in the African Charter: Appropriateness and methodology
by Anneth Amin
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The right to return to one’s country in Africa: Article 12(2) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
by Jamil D Mujuzi
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A legally-binding instrument on business and human rights: Implications for the right to development in Africa
by Tamo Atabongawung
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The ‘Africa we want’ in the African Union’s Agenda 2063 on the realisation of women’s human rights to access justice
by Nomthandazo Ntlama-Makhanya and Nombulelo Lubisi-Bizani
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Tension between the individual’s fundamental human rights and the protection of the public from infectious and formidable epidemic diseases
by Basutu S Makwaiba
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Sub-regional organisations and the responsibility to protect: A case for the localisation and normative repatriation of sub-regional authority for coercive measures
by Henry Paul Gichana
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An assessment of the regulatory legal and institutional framework of the mining industry in South Africa and Kenya for effective human rights protection: Lessons for other countries
by Oluwatosin B Igbayiloye and Danny Bradlow
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Utilising the due diligence standard to interrogate Kenya’s accountability efforts with regard to survivors of sexual violence in the 2007-2008 post-election violence
by Buluma Bwire, Migai Akech and Agnes Meroka-Mutua
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The right to privacy under the Constitution of Kenya and the criminalisation of consensual sex between same-sex adults
by Nicole Treyson Koske and Tomasz Milej
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The Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 as a harbinger for the elimination of unlawful detention in Nigeria
by David Tarh-Akong Eyongndi
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Liberalisation of Nigeria’s abortion laws with a focus on pregnancies resulting from rape: An empirical analysis
by Razaq Justice Adebimpe
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The challenges to gender equality in the legal profession in South Africa: A case for substantive equality as a means for achieving gender transformation
by Matilda Lasseko-Phooko and Safia Mahomed
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Is the forfeiture of criminally-acquired property in Tanzania compliant with the Constitution?
by Abdulrahman OJ Kaniki
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The protection of individual labour rights in Zimbabwe
by Tapiwa G Kasuso and Tinashe Madebwe
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Recent developments
Realising the right of access to water for people living on farms: The impact of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court decision in Mshengu v uMsunduzi Local Municipality
by Lisa Chamberlain and Kelebogile Khunou
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One step forward, two steps back: A review of Mushoriwa v City of Harare in view of Zimbabwe’s constitutional socio-economic rights
by Tinashe Kondo, Shadreck Masike, Brian Chihera and Bright Mbonderi
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