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Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa

By Kolawole Olaniyan

Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa Law

Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa

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This important new book provides a framework for complementarity between promoting and protecting human rights and combating corruption. The book makes three major points regarding the relationship between corruption and human rights law. First, corruption per se is a human rights violation, insofar as it interferes with the right of the people to dispose of their natural wealth and resources and thereby increases poverty and frustrates socio-economic development. Second, corruption leads to a multitude of human rights violations. Third, the book demonstrates that human rights mechanisms have the capacity to provide more effective remedies to victims of corruption than can other criminal and civil legal mechanisms. The book takes up one of the pervasive problems of governance--large-scale corruption--to examine its impact on human rights and the degree to which a human rights approach to confronting corruption can buttress the traditional criminal law response. It examines three major aspects of human rights in practice--the importance of governing structures in the implementation and enjoyment of human rights, the relationship between corruption, poverty and underdevelopment, and the threat that systemic poverty poses to the entire human rights edifice. The book is a very significant contribution to the literature on good governance, human rights and the rule of law in Africa.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
440
Release Date:
1939-08-03
Publication Date:
2016-09-29
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509908455
ISBN13:
9781509908455
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
664 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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