The Need to Reform the Political Role of the African Union in Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Domestic States: Making States More Accountable and Less Able to Avoid Scrutiny at the United Nations and at the African Union, Using Swaziland to Spotlight the Issues-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Need to Reform the Political Role of the African Union in Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Domestic States: Making States More Accountable and Less Able to Avoid Scrutiny at the United Nations and at the African Union, Using Swaziland to Spotlight the Issues

Published:2018-02 Issue:1 Volume:26 Page:84-107
ISSN:0954-8890
Container-title:African Journal of International and Comparative Law
language:en
Short-container-title:African J Intl & Comparative Law

Author:

Sarkin Jeremy¹

Affiliation:

1. BA LLB (Natal), LLM (Harvard), LLD (UWC); Professor of Law, University of South Africa (UNISA); Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and member of Cedis, School of Law, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal; Attorney in South Africa and Attorney in New York, USA. He is a former Chair-Rapporteur, United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Contact:

Abstract

This article examines how effective the African Union (AU) has been in pushing states to be more democratic in nature and to respect, protect, fulfil and promote the human rights of their inhabitants. It reviews the political role of the AU in this regard using the situation in Swaziland to do so. The article also examines Swaziland at the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process as a comparative tool.

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Subject

Law

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