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• W334366296 abstract "Although one of the three major regional human rights bodies in the world, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has remained largely unexamined by lawyers. This situation is particularly unfortunate because the approach to human rights protection and promotion advanced by the African Commission is perhaps the most innovative of the three. Rachel Murray's recent book is a carefully constructed illustration of the importance of the Commission. Instead of attempting to provide a detailed survey of the jurisprudence or decisions of the Commission with regard to each article of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights, the book focuses on some of the most important legal developments under the Charter.1 In doing so, the book offers the reader an in-depth view of three important areas in which the Commission's views have been uniquely innovative: the definition of human rights under the Charter, the non-derogation of human rights norms under the Charter, and non-contentious dispute resolution under the Charter. first concerns the understanding of human rights in Africa, which the author discusses in chapters 3 and 4, entitled The Notion of the State and The Issue of Personality. In Chapter 3, she points out that African states are not defined in terms of the Westphalian concept to which western scholars often relate; instead, the African state is a much more heterogenous assimilation of individuals, communities, and government. Particularly important is the Commission's flexible approach to personality.2 author points out how the Commission, and indeed the Charter itself, incorporates an expanded understanding of the reach of international human rights law. This is especially apparent in the articles of the Charter setting forth the duties of the individual.3 While this has been pointed out by other observers of the African system,4 Murray contributes a review of some important statements of the Commission as she examines the personality of states, individuals, non-governmental organizations, and peoples in the context of the Charter. In Chapter 5 the author deals with the non-derogable nature of the Charter under the title The Law Applicable in Times of War and Peace. This chapter highlights the several decisions of the African Commission whereby states have been denied the right to derogate from the provisions of the Charter under any circumstances, even of war or of civil unrest.5 This striking feature of the Charter, a result of the Commission's interpretation and not explicitly laid out in the Charter, makes the African system perhaps the most advanced system for the protection of human rights in the world. It removes the right of states-one that has been frequently exercised based on explicit provisions in the respective regional and universal treaties-to derogate from human rights in the interest of ensuring the public order or even the continued existence of the state. In other words, in the African system, human rights apply at all times without exception. These brave and farsighted holdings by the Commission form a lex specialis for African states that differs from the discretion allowed to threatened states by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons.6 It is a holding that also stands in stark contrast to the attempt by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in Juan Carlos Abella v. Argentina, to apply international humanitarian law, instead of international human rights law, to armed conflicts.7 A discussion of ways in which the Commission's holding differs from the decisions of these two international bodies would have been more relevant than the brief reference to European jurisprudence that is included.8 Nevertheless, the author uses the natural entry point of the Commission's most far-reaching holdings to suggest that the non-- derogability of human rights might indeed be the most beneficial approach for the international community. …" @default.
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• W334366296 title "Reading the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights" @default.
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