The African Human Rights Law Journal publishes peer-reviewed contributions dealing with human rights related topics of relevance to Africa, Africans and scholars of Africa. The Journal appears twice a year and is available both as online open access and in print. In 2013 Pretoria University Law Press took over the publication of the Journal which had been published by JUTA since 2000.The journal publishes articles on the work of African regional and sub-regional human rights bodies as well as the work of international bodies related to Africa. The journal also publishes articles on law and human rights in African states as well as social science work related to human rights in Africa.
The Journal appears on the list of accredited journals of the South African Department of Education and is included in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS).
ISSN: 1609-073X
E-ISSN: 1996-2096
Latest Edition: AHRLJ Volume 19 No 2 2019
AHRLJ Volume 19 No 2 2019
Published by Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)
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Editorial
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Articles
Eliminating harmful practices against women in Zimbabwe: Implementing article 5 of the African Women’s Protocol
by Linet Sithole and Cowen Dziva
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The impact of the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa
by Romola Adeola
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Protecting the rights of victims in transitional justice: An interrogation of amnesty
‘He beat me, and the state did nothing about it’: An African perspective on the due diligence standard and state responsibility for domestic violence in international law
The right of palliative care for the most vulnerable in Africa is everyone’s responsibility
Recognition of minority groups as a prerequisite for the protection of human rights: The case of Anglophone Cameroon
Pharmaceutical trade policies and access to medicines in Kenya
A predisposed view: State violence, human rights organisations and the invisibility of the poor in Nairobi
Abolition of criminal defamation and retention of scandalum magnatum in Lesotho
Public-private partnership and the right to property in Nigeria
Decongestion of Nigerian prisons: An examination of the role of the Nigerian police in the application of the holding-charge procedure in relation to pre-trial- detainees
The illegal eviction of undocumented foreigners from South Africa
Decriminalisation of cannabis for personal use in South Africa
Recent Developments
Decriminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts and the Botswana Constitution: Letsweletse Motshidiemang v The Attorney-General (LEGABIBO as amicus curiae)
