To what extent have human rights been defended and promoted by African constitutionalism? - Detailed plan and introduction

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[...] Violation of rights, between political and economic exploitation - Finally, it should be noted that there is a denial of the right to internal self-determination of peoples against the dictatorship of the dominant single party (de facto or de jure), of their participation in national construction and development, in the promotion of African unity and the creation of an international civil society for a fairer and more united world. - In other words, there are divergences in aspirations, interests and destinies between the people and the elites, divergences that generate permanent confrontations, widespread misunderstandings and institutionalized violence. - From this we deduce that political, economic and social domination, as well as potential natural and mineral wealth and geographical vulnerability, are the main factors responsible for Africa being a continent conducive to the generation of refugees and human rights violations. [...]

[...] The modern state in Africa faces a series of challenges that limit its consolidation; it is therefore necessary to explore the state of progress in respect for human rights, the need to take ancestral values into account in the management of politics, the importance of social classes, constitutionalism and the viability of African socialism. The aim is to investigate the analysis of socio-political problems linked to the challenges of the modern state in Africa, i.e. constitutionalism, human rights, socialism, ancestral values and social classes. To what extent have human rights been defended and promoted by African constitutionalism? We shall see that Africa is thirsty for freedoms and respect for human rights following the end of colonization of the continent. [...]

[...] This is why several African countries have taken joint action to enshrine this defense of human rights in texts and an institution. However, this resolution is slow to take shape, and oscillates between hope and the refusal of national states to interfere. I. The quest for freedom in a post-colonial world The creation of new social and political organizations - Human rights open up a new perspective. This post-colonial perspective opens the way to rigorously criticize the Western vision of African peoples, but also to offer a new conceptual space from which to understand African race, nations and cultures from an ethnographic dimension, applying the norms of pan-Africanism. [...]

[...] To what extent have human rights been defended and promoted by African constitutionalism ? - Detailed plan and introduction Human rights violations in Africa affect almost all countries. They arise from structural and circumstantial violence, which is uncontrolled and sometimes even encouraged. There are several reasons for this: firstly, African leaders are only concerned with protecting and defending their privileges, they are incapable of preventing violence; and when they do act, they do so late and badly. In many cases, their powers rely on private or tribal militias, they allow the circulation of weapons and even foment incidents to justify the brutal and repressive intervention of security forces. [...]

[...] The evolution of human rights in Africa, between progress and setbacks The abolition of apartheid and the hope of widespread democratization - In 1994, a first draft was presented to the Organization of African Unity adopting a resolution in which, for the first time, it was ordered that a commission of experts be set up to prepare a draft statute for the Court. - The Protocol to the African Charter on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights came into force in January 2004, and was ratified in 2016 by sixteen states. Its permanent headquarters was established in Arusha, Tanzania, in 2007, and is made up of 11 judges from African Union member countries. [...]