"The Human Rights Law in Africa" series is an evolving reference work on human rights law in Africa. It covers, in particular, the primary documents related to human rights law in Africa of the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity, and the domestic legal systems of all 53 African countries. Some selected factual discussions are also included, as well as bibliographies. The series has been published on an annual basis since 1996 - later volumes supplement and do not replace earlier ones. Each volume covers new documents available to the editors up to the 1st of January of that year. Documents published in earlier volumes and that are still valid are not reprinted in subsequent volumes; instead readers are provided with the appropriate references to earlier volumes.
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This is the third annual volume in the "Human Rights Law in Africa Series". Subsequent volumes supplement earlier ones: new as well as updated information is provided in later volumes, but instead of reprinting information from earlier volumes that is still relevant, later volumes simply make reference to the availability of that information. In using the series, the reader should consequently start with the list of contents of the last available volume, for a reference to where in the series the information may be found. The series' main objective is to make a contribution towards the greater realization of human rights norms in Africa.
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Charting the development of the legal protection of human rights in Africa, each volume in this series examines the position at the levels of the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity, and the national legal systems of all the countries in Africa, as it was on the first day of the year under review. The main objective of the series to contribute towards the development of an indigenous African-human-rights jurisprudence. This second volume in the series covers the situation as it was on 1st January 1997. It contains documents, updated charts of ratification, constitutional provisions enacted during the last year, and extensive commentary on the African Charter system as well as the national legal systems of 12 African countries.
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