Human Rights Litigation and the Domestication of Human Rights Standards in Sub Saharan Africa

Vol 1

How does one go about ensuring that the legal protection of human rights in Africa conforms to the standards and obligations that African states assume responsibility for, when they ratify international human rights treaties and conventions? How does one secure remedies that meet international standards, when faced by violations at home, through recourse to municipal/national judicial remedies?

Human Rights Litigation and the Domestication of Human Rights Standards in Sub Saharan Africa

Vol 2

How does one go about ensuring that the legal protection of human rights in Africa conforms to the standards and obligations that African states assume responsibility for, when they ratify international human rights treaties and conventions? How does one secure remedies that meet international standards, when faced by violations at home, through recourse to municipal/national judicial remedies?

Constitutional interpretation in Kenya continues to raise novel issues, which add to the evolution of the Kenyan Constitutional Jurisprudence.

In the previous Constitutional Law Case Digest we considered the trend of the Constitutional Jurisprudence in the enforcement of the fundamental rights and freedoms in Kenya between 1990 and 2003.

This issue is an expansion of the first edition and it addresses inter alia rights to property, suffrage and public policy. The digest focuses on the emergent interpretation of fundamental principles and doctrines of constitutional law namely, constitutionalism, separation of powers, the rule of law and parliamentary supremacy

Children have a set of human rights specific to them because the general thrust behind national and international action on behalf of children is the moral and legal recognition of their emotional, physical and psychological vulnerability, their need for special care and recognition of the obligation to respect for their rights including having their views respected.

The theme chosen for this publication is of crucial importance in light of recent conflicts as well as for the future of the continent because given the number and variety of ethnic conflict, development strategies cannot afford to ignore the effects of ethnicity. The prospects of peace and war, the maintenance of national unity, and the enjoyment of fundamental human rights in many parts of the world depend on the adequate solution to ethnic tensions. To ignore the problem is to therefore neglect an important aspect of the contemporary reality.

Strengthening Judicial Reforms in Kenya: The Anti-Corruption Court in Kenya

This is the ninth report in "Strengthening Judicial Reforms"series of publications and it examines the operation of the Anti-Corruption Court in Kenya. The report focuses on the Court's operations, legal status and its relationship with other relevant organizations that deal with corruption. The report is based on the findings of both desk and field research carried out under the aegis of ICJ-Kenya's Judiciary Programme in July 2004.

Strengthening Judicial Reforms in Kenya: Administrative Reforms

This is the 10th Report in "Strengthening Judicial Reforms" Series of publications and it addresses administrative reforms in the Judiciary. The report focuses on the offices of the Chief Justice and the Registrar as well as judicial policies which form the larger part of Judiciary's internal environment that govern the day-to-day functions and operations of the Judiciary.

This handbook has been developed by the Paralegal Support Network (PASUNE). The curriculum has been very useful in ensuring that all organizations involved in paralegal training cover an agreed set of issues in the process of training and that the eventual trainees are of a certain quality.

Transitional Justice, as an evolving and contested concept and process, has become one of the major governance and reform projects for societies emerging from situations of oppressive rule and conflicts. It entails a number of mechanisms and tools, which must be applied within the specific contexts of the

countries in question. This Toolkit captures a number of transitional justice mechanisms and tools relevant to Kenya.