“San Bushmen Are Not Forever”: Human Rights Perspective of Land Access Issues of Hunter-Gatherer Societies in Southern Africa

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-204
Author(s):  
Boipuso Nkwae
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Land Access

Constructive Engagement: Reactionary Pragmatism at its Best

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Deborah Toler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Constructive Engagement

No one is happy with the Reagan Administration’s southern Africa foreign policy strategy known as constructive engagement. Liberals object to the tilt towards South Africa, to the linkage of Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola to the Namibian negotiations; to the resulting moribund state of those negotiations; and to the deemphasis of human rights and development issues in favor of increased emphasis on military and security issues. Conservatives object to economic assistance packages for African socialist and self-styled states; to the declining U.S. support of Jonas Savimbi’s ostensibly pro-Western UNITA forces in Angola; to Administration efforts to improve relations between the United States and the Marxist states of Angola and Mozambique; and to the Administration’s apparent willingness to accept a SWAPO (i.e., communist guerrilla) outcome in Namibia.

scholarly journals HIV vulnerability in migrant populations in southern Africa: Sociological, cultural, health-related, and human-rights perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice K. Nicholas ◽  
Ntombizanele Mfono ◽  
Inge B. Corless ◽  
Sheila M. Davis ◽  
Eva O’Brien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Hiv Vulnerability

Protection of Labour Rights in the Age of Democratization and Economic Restructuring in Southern Africa

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nanyenya Takirambudde
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Negative Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Economic

The contours of human rights, especially labour rights, have undergone significant shifts in the recent past in Southern Africa. Labour law regimes have been overhauled, resulting in large-scale changes, liberalization of controls over trade unions, loosening of strictures relating to the right to strike, freeing collective bargaining from excessive governmental interference and the extension of protective legislation to previously excluded workers. These developments have been a function of dramatic changes throughout die region. The transition in Soudiern Africa has encompassed die political, economic and legal fabrics of most countries. It has been under way since die late 1980s and is being extended daily. In die constitutional zone, diere is a discernible trend towards the constdtutionalization of social rights, thus settling the debate regarding positive and negative rights in favour of the interdependence, indivisibility and interconnectedness of human rights. The transformation in Soudiern Africa is emblematic of three critical developments: democratization, economic liberalization and paradigmatic transitions in law.

Informing the regulatory framework on water and sanitation in Southern Africa: The emerging governance framework accompanying SDG 6

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Germarié Viljoen ◽  
Bronwen Qumbu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
The People ◽  
Water Borne

At least 40% of the people in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region do not have access to safe water and sanitation, rendering them vulnerable to prolonged conflicts and catastrophes, including exposure to water-borne diseases, other pandemics, poverty and human suffering. Although several international and African regional treaties support the human rights to water and sanitation, the ability of the SADC regulatory framework to give effect to these rights is concerning. In fact, available literature on the SADC’s ability to meaningfully realise these rights is fragmented and scant. This article examines theoretically a novel governance approach to the implementation of Sustainable Goal 6 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The article argues that the coercion through regional ‘goal setting’ may provide a conclusive, regional response to the continuing development of water and sanitation rights in the SADC region.

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