Download or read book The Politics of Necessity written by Elke Zuern and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-02-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of apartheid in South Africa broke down political barriers, extending to all races the formal rights of citizenship, including the right to participate in free elections and parliamentary democracy. But South Africa remains one of the most economically polarized nations in the world. In The Politics of Necessity Elke Zuern forcefully argues that working toward greater socio-economic equality—access to food, housing, land, jobs—is crucial to achieving a successful and sustainable democracy. Drawing on interviews with local residents and activists in South Africa’s impoverished townships during more than a decade of dramatic political change, Zuern tracks the development of community organizing and reveals the shifting challenges faced by poor citizens. Under apartheid, township residents began organizing to press the government to address the basic material necessities of the poor and expanded their demands to include full civil and political rights. While the movement succeeded in gaining formal political rights, democratization led to a new government that instituted neo-liberal economic reforms and sought to minimize protest. In discouraging dissent and failing to reduce economic inequality, South Africa’s new democracy has continued to disempower the poor. By comparing movements in South Africa to those in other African and Latin American states, this book identifies profound challenges to democratization. Zuern asserts the fundamental indivisibility of all human rights, showing how protest movements that call attention to socio-economic demands, though often labeled a threat to democracy, offer significant opportunities for modern democracies to evolve into systems of rule that empower all citizens.
Download or read book Human Rights in Southern Africa written by Isaac Mutelo and published by Domuni-Press. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interest, awareness and importance of human rights has continued to dominate public discourse. This is partly because human rights help us to recognise and respect our shared rights and responsibilities so that we may be able to co-exist while upholding the values and principles of democracy. This voluminous contribution provides a systematic and comprehensive reflection on the state of human rights in Southern Africa. The main aim is to deepen the understanding of human rights from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Contributors analyse how human rights are not only promoted and protected from possible violations, but also abused with reference to divergent contexts in Southern African. The wide-ranging themes, perspectives and theoretical frameworks in this work provides for a deeper and boarder understanding of human rights in the region.
Download or read book Measuring Democracy and Human Rights in Southern Africa written by Yul Derek Davids and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attitudes Among the Youth
Download or read book Engaging with Social Rights written by Brian Ray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court's social rights decisions, Brian Ray argues that the Court's procedural enforcement approach has had significant but underappreciated effects on law and policy, and challenges the view that a stronger substantive standard of review is necessary to realize these rights. Drawing connections between the Court's widely acclaimed early decisions and the more recent second-wave cases, Ray explains that the Court has responded to the democratic legitimacy and institutional competence concerns that consistently constrain it by developing doctrines and remedial techniques that enable activists, civil society and local communities to press directly for rights-protective policies through structured, court-managed engagement processes. Engaging with Social Rights shows how those tools could be developed to make state institutions responsive to the needs of poor communities by giving those communities and their advocates consistent access to policy-making and planning processes.
Download or read book South Africa s Struggle for Human Rights written by Saul Dubow and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human rights movement in South Africa’s transition to a postapartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. It was a key aspect of the political transition, often referred to as a miracle, which brought majority rule and democracy to South Africa. The country’s new constitution, its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the moral authority of Nelson Mandela stand as exemplary proof of this achievement. Yet, less than a generation after the achievement of freedom, the status of human rights and constitutionalism in South Africa is uncertain. In government the ANC has displayed an inconsistent attitude to the protection, and advancement, of hard-won freedoms and rights, and it is not at all clear that a broader civic and political consciousness of the importance of rights is rooting itself more widely in popular culture.
Download or read book Human Rights and Democracy in Southern Africa written by Karin Fischer-Buder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy Human Rights and Economic Development in Southern Africa written by N. C. Steytler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy Human Rights and Regional Co operation in Southern Africa written by Dominic Milazi and published by Africa Institute of South Africa. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of African unity, the importance of the role of the sub-regions in working together, harmonising policies and addressing common challenges cannot be over-stated. The contributions to this volume were written by scholars of the Southern African Universities Social Sciences Conference (SAUSSC). Since its establishment in the 1970s, SAUSSC has served as a platform for discussions on issues affecting Southern African Societies. The papers focus on various social scientific and developmental issues with particular attention to the theme of the 2000 bi-annual conference, which was Democracy, Human Rights and Regional Co-operation in Southern Africa. The overriding preoccupation of most of the chapters is the regional challenges of sustainable democracy and development, and the associated problems of capacity building for democracy and respect for human rights. Other significant issues covered include civil conflict and management, peace and security, civil society and social development, citizenship and information technology.
Download or read book Protecting Human Rights in a New South Africa written by Albie Sachs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9. Rights to the land.
Download or read book Global Dialogue Human Rights and Foreign Policy written by Vernon Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on Democracy and Human Rights written by South African Human Rights Commission and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Struggle for Human Rights written by Meena Anand and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the independent states of Africa the human rights situation has never promising. The present piece of work is divided into eight chapters. First chapter deals with the introduction. Second chapter, as evident from the title deals with the theoretical aspects of human rights, mainly its origin and development. Various theoretical of rights have also been discussed. The chapter attempts to analyses various systems of Human Rights protection, at national, regional and global levels. The second chapter deals with Human Rights in the new South Africa, role of political parties in the making of New South Africa during the negotiations of the constitution making exercises as well as building the New South Africa after 1994 election. Forth chapter deals with the foreign policy and Human rights. Fifth chapter deals with economic dimensions and Human Rights in South Africa and evaluate the role of reconstruction and development and Growth of Employment and Redistribution (GEAR). Sixth chapter deals with social dimensions and Human Rights. Seventh chapter deals with the Bill of Rights. Concluding remarks have been made in chapter eighth which also attempt of envisage a better future for Human Rights in Africa.
Download or read book The Protection of Human Rights in South Africa written by John C. Mubangizi and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides useful information about international human rights norms and their relevance to South Africa. Considering the interplay between international and domestic human rights standards, it explains and explores how the South African Constitution protects human rights.
Download or read book Democracy in Africa written by Roger Southall and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two papers included in this analysis examine the political and socioeconomic factors that contribute to and constrain upon democratization throughout southern Africa and the African continent. With an emphasis on the policies of government, business, and civil society geared toward reducing inequality and poverty, these studies promote community empowerment as a way to promote local, regional, and national sustainable development on the African continent.
Download or read book The Institutionalisation of Human Rights in Southern Africa written by Institutt for menneskerettigheter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rights, by Lawrence Tshuma
Download or read book Rights and Democracy written by Henk Botha and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this book pay tribute to senior Harvard law professor Frank Michelman whose thinking ? and input ? on Constitutional Law has made a great contribution to constitutional development in South Africa. These essays are the work of some of the best practical and academic legal minds in this country and, given South Africa?s recent successes in this field, represent an advanced position in constitutional thinking in the world.
Download or read book The Foundations of Freedom written by Denis Victor Cowen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
