Download or read book Country Reports on Human Rights Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Displacing Human Rights written by Adam Branch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Western intervention is a ubiquitous feature of violent conflict in Africa. Humanitarian aid agencies, community peacebuilders, microcredit promoters, children's rights activists, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the U.S. military, and numerous others have involved themselves in African conflicts, all claiming to bring peace and human rights to situations where they are desperately needed. However, according to Adam Branch, Western intervention is not the solution to violence in Africa but, instead, can be a major part of the problem--often undermining human rights and even prolonging war and intensifying anti-civilian violence. Based on an extended case study of Western intervention into northern Uganda's twenty-year civil war, and drawing on Branch's own extensive research and human rights activism there, this book lays bare the reductive understandings motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive consequences for peace, human rights, and justice. In short, Branch demonstrates how Western interventions undermine the efforts Africans themselves are undertaking to end violence in their own communities. The book does not end with critique, however. Motivated by a commitment to global justice, it proposes concrete changes for Western humanitarian, peacebuilding, and justice interventions as well as a new normative framework for re-orienting the Western approach to violent conflict in Africa around a practice of genuine solidarity. "A key strength of the book is its ability to analyse and reveal common patterns in seemingly disparate and complex empirical instances of counterproductive human rights interventions in Uganda. ... [T]his book should be required reading for all those working on various themes in Africa today."--The Journal of Modern African Studies "This book provides a pessimistic, but much needed, critique of the history of foreign intervention in Northern Uganda. ... Responsible discussions of foreign policy must consider the ways in which 'great power politics' can hurt people in the name of protection; this book is an excellent place to start that discussion." --The Christian Science Monitor
Download or read book The Power of Human Rights written by Thomas Risse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tunisia and Morocco.
Download or read book Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda 1979 to 2016 written by Ogenga Otunnu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the second of two parts, demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence. The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in Uganda is the severe crisis of legitimacy of the state, its institutions, political incumbents and their challengers. This crisis of legitimacy, which is shaped by both internal and external forces, past and present, accounts for the remarkable continuity in the history of political violence since the construction of the state.
Download or read book Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies written by Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a multi-method approach to examine the impact of truth commissions on subsequent human rights protection and democratic practice and features cross-national case studies on South Africa, El Salvador, Chile and Uganda.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Human Rights written by Edward H. Lawson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface to the first edition
Download or read book The Lord s Resistance Army written by Tim Allen and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa’s most persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres and mutilations. Since the mid 1980s, it has abducted tens of thousands of people, including large numbers of children forced to train as fighters. The IC in 2005 issued warrants for Kony and his top commanders, and the United States is backing a military campaign against the group. But the LRA survives, continuing to inspire both fascination and fear. Authoritative but provocative, The Lord’s Resistance Army provides the most comprehensive analysis of the group available. From the roots of the violence to the oppressive responses of the Ugandan government and the failures of the international community, this collection looks at this most brutal of conflicts in fascinating depth, and includes a remarkable first-hand interview with Kony himself.
Download or read book Power Patronage and International Norms written by Valerie Freeland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that some of the least powerful countries masquerade as rights-promoters, paradoxically concealing the rights-violating effects of their patronage rule.
Download or read book The Uganda Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Rights in Africa written by James T. Lawrence and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. The book surveys the countries of Africa and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.
Download or read book Transitional Justice written by Neil J. Kritz and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword - Nelson Mandela
Download or read book Prominent African Leaders Since Independence written by Bridgette Kasuka and published by Bankole Kamara Taylor. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most prominent leaders of the independence struggle in Africa are covered in this book. They include leaders who were involved in armed struggle against colonial rule and white minority regimes. Some of them overthrew black governments. And there are those who supported liberation wars in the countries of southern Africa by providing military bases and other forms of assistance to the freedom fighters. The book also includes some leaders whose countries were the first, or were among the first, to win independence in Africa. And the leader of a country that was the only one which was never colonised is also included in the book. There are many others. They are all united by one thing: They are among the most prominent Africa has ever produced since independence.
Download or read book Transnational Mobilization and Domestic Regime Change written by H. Schmitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa represents the next frontier of the transnational politics of democratization. Recent efforts to promote human rights and democracy have yielded a mixed record of success. A comparison of regime change in Kenya and Uganda reveals how principled interventions have unintentional adverse effects on the democratic reform process.
Download or read book Uganda the Human Rights Record 1986 1989 written by Amnesty International and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uganda an Annotated Bibliography of Source Materials written by Cherry J. Gertzel and published by Hans Zell Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE COMPILER, AN EXPERT IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EAST AFRICA, HAS PROVIDED BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE ANNOTATIONS...THERE ARE ALSO SEPARATE SECTIONS CITING PUBLICATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OR POLITICAL PARTIES & THESES, JUST TO MENTION A FEW. A COMPREHENSIVE SUBJECT INDEX PROVIDES ACCESS TO ALL ENTRIES. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO ANY LIBRARY SUPPORTING UPPER-DIVISION UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE WORK."--CHOICE. This 2500 bibliography documents available literature on the country's recent history & politics.
Download or read book Prominent African Leaders Since Independence written by Willie Seth and published by Intercontinental Books. This book was released on with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the most influential African leaders since independence.
Download or read book Rosemary Nyirumbe written by María Ruiz Scaperlanda and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe's 62 years of life provide a powerful testament to God's presence, love, and hope amidst unimaginable violence. Throughout these many years, her native Uganda and southern Sudan (now South Sudan) have suffered the devastating effects of war and military clashes. Children, as the most vulnerable population, have suffered the most-being orphaned, kidnapped, forced to become child soldiers and sex-slaves. In Rosemary Nyirumbe: Sewing Hope in Uganda María Ruiz Scaperlanda brings to light Sister Rosemary's vocation of loving presence to these youth in the midst of this cultural and societal obliteration. As a Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for over 45 years, Sister Rosemary, even at great risk to herself, continues to minister to children enduring the violence around them, teaching practical skills, while helping them to heal, forgive, and hope. Her work taking in girls escaping captivity by Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has earned her international recognition. She has been named one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," is the subject of the book Sewing Hope, and an award-winning documentary by the same name narrated by Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker. She received the United Nations Women's Impact Award and has been named a CNN Hero.
