Bread and freedom: Understanding and acting on human rights
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In: The Risk book series 4
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In: 115(3) American Journal of International Law 409-451 (2021)
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In: Edilex, 27 November 2018
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In: Lawfare Book Review Series, 2017
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In: (2017) 22 Tilburg Law Review 138-164.
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In: APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: CRIMINOLOGICAL AND LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, pp. 113-132, Farrall, Ahmed and French, eds., Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012
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In: APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: Colombia internacional, Heft 69, S. 36-49
ISSN: 0121-5612
In: The international & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 193-204
ISSN: 1471-6895
International human rights law advocates tolerance, inclusivity and the promotion of equality among peoples, nations and individuals across the world. It seems disappointing, therefore, that these standards do not always apply to the discipline of international human rights law itself. Instead there seems to be a hierarchy in the international human rights system. Others have written about such an approach in relation to different types of rights,1reflecting political power struggles.2This paper will consider whether African institutions are 'third generation' organs and perceived as of less value than others. It will argue that international human rights law has focused primarily on European and Western sources and neglected those from other jurisdictions. It has failed, therefore, to use African institutions, for instance, to provide examples of good practice, relying on them only as examples of what not to do. As Okafor and Agbakwa state, there is evidence of a one-way traffic, with Western scholars giving the impression that they feel they have little to learn from African institutions and their experiences: