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Corruption and human rights law in Africa / Kolawole Olaniyan.

By:

Olaniyan, Kolawole [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in international law (Oxford, England) ; v. 52.Publisher: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xxxvi, 403 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1509908455
9781509908455

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

KQC982 OLA 2016

Contents:

Corruption and human rights law : historical and conceptual frameworks -- The international dimensions of corruption and money laundering -- National legal frameworks for fighting corruption in Africa -- International legal frameworks for fighting corruption across Africa -- Effects of corruption on human and peoples' rights -- The potential of human rights law in combating corruption in Africa -- Conclusions.

Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-381) and index.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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