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Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law

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Editors:
  1. Michael Addaney

    1. Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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  2. Ademola Oluborode Jegede

    1. Department of Public Law, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa

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  • Discusses human rights and environmental law in Africa from an African perspective
  • Brings together scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds
  • Explores the challenges as well as opportunities of human rights protection and sustainable development in Africa

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. New Frontiers in Human Rights and Environment: Environmental Protection Under African Union Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Human Rights, Regional Law and the Environment in Africa: Legal and Conceptual Foundations

      • Michael Addaney, Chantelle Gloria Moyo, Thabang Ramakhula
      Pages 3-23

    3. The Right to a Clean, Safe and Healthy Environment Under the African Human Rights System

      • Mulesa Lumina
      Pages 25-54

    4. Should a Human Right to a Safe Climate Be Recognized Under the AU Human Rights System?

      • Ademola Oluborode Jegede
      Pages 55-79

    5. Advancing Human Rights Through Environmental Rule of Law in Africa

      • Funmi Abioye
      Pages 81-105

    6. Women’s Environmental Human Rights in Africa with Reflections on Key Provisions of the Maputo Protocol

      • Elsabé Boshoff
      Pages 107-136

    7. The Legal Rights of Natural Entities: African Approaches to the Recognition of Rights of Nature

      • Oluwabusayo Temitope Wuraola
      Pages 137-152

  3. Enforcement of Environmental Rights by Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Judicial Enforcement of Environmental Human Rights in Africa

      • Emma Charlene Lubaale
      Pages 155-185

    3. Experiences from African Regional Human Rights Courts and Tribunals in the Protection of Environmental Rights

      • Michael Addaney, Chantelle Gloria Moyo
      Pages 187-208

    4. International Environmental Governance: A Case for Sub-regional Judiciaries in Africa

      • Eghosa Osa Ekhator
      Pages 209-231

    5. Climate Change as a ‘constitutional essential’: Trend and Significance for Africa

      • Ademola Oluborode Jegede
      Pages 233-259

  5. Business Practices, Human Rights and the Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 415-415
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About this book

This book brings together original and novel perspectives on major developments in human rights law and the environment in Africa. Focusing on African Union law, the book explores the core concepts and principles, theory and practice, accountability mechanisms and key issues challenging human rights law in the era of global environmental change. It, thus, extend the frontier of understanding in this fundamental area by building on existing scholarship on African human rights law and the protection of the environment, divulging concerns on redressing environmental and human rights protection issues in the context of economic growth and sustainable development. It further offers unique insight into the development, domestication and implementation challenges relating to human rights law and environmental governance in Africa. 

This long overdue interdisciplinary exploration of human rights law and the environment from an African perspective will be an indispensable reference point for academics, policymakers, practitioners and advocates of international human rights and environmental law in particular and international law, environmental politics and philosophy, and African studies in general. It is clear that there is much to do, study and share on this timely subject in the African context.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Michael Addaney

  • Department of Public Law, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa

    Ademola Oluborode Jegede

About the editors

Michael Addaney is a climate change adaptation law scholar at the Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China, and also affiliated to the Department of Planning and Sustainability at the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana. Michael’s research interests broadly focus on the role of international human rights law in framing and implementing responses to sustainability challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. 




Ademola Oluborode Jegede is Professor of Law in the Department of Public Law, University of Venda, South Africa. He has been a research visitor to the Centre for International Environmental Law, USA, Human Rights Institute at Abo Akademi, Finland, and a fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria. His research focuses on the interface of climate change with human rights of vulnerable groups and general international human rights law.




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