International human rights law in Africa: Between survival and politics

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protection mechanisms, African Union, African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, jurisdictional immunity, institutional confusion

Abstract

Juan Bautista Cartes Rodríguez’s work, El sistema africano de protección de los derechos humanos y de los pueblos, published by Tirant lo Blanch (2024), is a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the African regional system for the protection of human rights. It addresses five key issues, each of which is covered in a separate chapter: the historical and legal evolution of the African system, the specific features of the regional system's human rights treaties, the functioning of the African system's guarantee and control mechanisms, and, finally, the role of the subregional systems of the African economic communities in the field of human rights.

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Author Biography

  • Paloma Molina Cáceres, Universidad de Málaga, España

    Graduada en Derecho por la Universidad de Málaga (España), especializada en Derecho Internacional por el Máster de Derecho Internacional de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España). Actualmente Doctoranda en Derecho Internacional por la Universidad de Málaga. 

References

Bertocchi, G. (2016). The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa. IZA Journal of Migration, 5(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40176-016-0072-0

Cartes Rodríguez, J. B. (2019). The Proposed African Criminal Chamber: An Effective tool to end impunity on African soil? Revista Electrónica Cordobesa de Derecho Internacional Público, 1, 1-12.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (s.f.). Perfil: Juan Bautista Cartes Rodríguez. Investigador postdoctoral. Portal de Producción Científica. Recuperado el 12 de noviembre de 2025 de https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/investigadores/187614/detalle

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2025-12-04

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Molina Cáceres, P. (2025). International human rights law in Africa: Between survival and politics. Revista Electrónica de Derecho Internacional Contemporáneo, 8(8). https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/Redic/article/view/20107