International Human Rights Law in Africa & Domestic Human Rights Law in Africa (2 vols.)

Christof Heyns is Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
Morne van der Linde is a Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights and heads the Environmental Programme at the Centre.

The combination of Volume I and II, of international and domestic human rights aspects, presents the first complete work on the human rights situation in Africa. Therefore, the aim editor Christof Heyns propounds at the very beginning, to provide a work that is appropriate to make the vast body of human rights law in Africa accessible to all persons involved or interested in this field, can only be achieved through an approach like this.
German Yearbook of International Law, Volume 47, 2004.

Introduction, Volume One: International Human Rights Law in Africa, The United Nations and Human Rights in Africa, Introduction to the UN, UN treaty bodies, Charter-based human rights monitoring, Other UN institutions and specialised agencies, UN reports, UN Information Centres and Depository Libraries, Charts of ratification of the main UN human rights treaties, Reservations, interpretive declarations and objections, The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Sierra Leone Special Court, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Humanitarian Law
Regional Protection of Human Rights in Africa, Introduction to Africa's continental organisations: The AU, AEC and NEPAD, Chart of ratification of the main continental human rights treaties, Reservations, interpretive declarations and objections, Texts of continental human rights and related treaties, Model legislation, Documents of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU/OAU, Documents of the Executive Council/Council of Ministers of the AU/OAU, AU/OAU Ministerial Conferences, The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Introduction to the African Commission, Documents of the African Commission, Mandates of Special Rapporteurs, NGOs with observer status, National human rights institutions with affiliate status, Conferences of national human rights institutions. Sub-Regional Inter-Governmental Organizations and Human Rights, Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African Community (EAC), Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (lGAD), Southern African Development Community (SADC). Other Inter-Governmental Organisations with an African Membership, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), Arab League of Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP), Francophonie, Group of 77 (G 77), Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). NGO and Other Documents on Human Rights in Africa, Overview of Selected African Human Rights Issues , Refugee protection in Africa, HIV/AlDS in Africa, Women in Africa, National human rights institutions in Africa.
Volume Two: Domestic Human Rights Law in Africa
Documents (constitutional provisions, foonding documents of national human rights institutions and 1ruth commissions, peace accords ) and country reports on the countries of Africa. Table of constitutional provisions relevant to human rights, Schedule of elections in Africa, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe.