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Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa (Hardcover)
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Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in International Law
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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.
Endorsements "Kolawole Olaniyan has taken 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. His focus is Africa, but the valuable
lessons he teaches in this comprehensive study can resonate
throughout the world. The result is a comprehensive and holistic
legal framework for addressing some of the root causes of human
rights violations and poverty, not only in Africa, but wherever
corruption exists." Dinah Shelton Manatt/Ahn Professor of
International Law (emeritus) The George Washington University Law
School "This book demonstrates the author's mastery of complex
jurisprudential and theoretical discourses. His review of the
existing literature is extensive, the doctrinal analysis rigorous
and the treatment of the subject innovative. Dr. Olaniyan's
willingness to introduce fresh eyes to the ways in which doctrine
contributes to an understanding of seemingly mundane problems lays
the foundation for fertile trajectories from which future scholars
can launch exciting inquiries on the relationship between
corruption and human rights. Overall, this book makes an important
and valuable contribution to the growth and understanding of the
corruption/human rights discourse as it is presently constructed."
Ndiva Kofele-Kale, University Distinguished Professor of Law, SMU
Dedman School of Law, Dallas, USA.
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