Solomon T Ebobrah
Biographic Data
| ID | 6552103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Solomon T Ebobrah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Solomon T |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebobrah |
| SIGNATURE | EBOBRAH S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Niger Delta University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Federalism and the Challenge of Applying International Human Rights Law Against Child Marriage in Africa
Federalism presents a dilemma for the implementation of international human rights law in those African states that operate federal constitutions. Central governments in these states enjoy international legal personality, make treaties and represent their states as parties to those treaties, yet internal legislative competence over some issues regulated by treaty is commonly shared between central and regional governments. Consequently, while cen…
Africanising Human Rights in the 21st Century
Since the late 1990s, African political leaders have personified the disgust that African societies supposedly hold against homosexuality and sexual minorities. Relying on international human rights norms that require the protection of sexual minority rights, advocates have mounted sustained pressure on parliaments in Africa to decriminalise homosexuality and make law advantageous to sexual minorities. This article argues that focus on parliament…
Towards a Positive Application of Complementarity in the African Human Rights System
According to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights establishing \nthe African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the main function of the Court is to complement \nthe protective mandate of the already existing African Commission on Human and \nPeoples’ Rights. Thus, complementarity was introduced into the framework of the African \nhuman rights system. Since then, the concept of complementarity has also been brought in…
Critical Issues in the Human Rights Mandate of the Ecowas Court of Justice
A new opportunity for international human rights litigation in West Africa was presented in 2005 when the Economic Community of West African States adopted a protocol to empower its judicial organ, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, to determine cases of human rights violation that occur in ECOWAS member states. Since then, several human rights claims have been brought before the court. However, critical questions concerning the legality of t…
Towards a Positive Application of Complementarity in the African Human Rights System
According to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights establishing \nthe African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the main function of the Court is to complement \nthe protective mandate of the already existing African Commission on Human and \nPeoples’ Rights. Thus, complementarity was introduced into the framework of the African \nhuman rights system. Since then, the concept of complementarity has also been brought in…
Critical Issues in the Human Rights Mandate of the Ecowas Court of Justice
A new opportunity for international human rights litigation in West Africa was presented in 2005 when the Economic Community of West African States adopted a protocol to empower its judicial organ, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, to determine cases of human rights violation that occur in ECOWAS member states. Since then, several human rights claims have been brought before the court. However, critical questions concerning the legality of t…
Towards a Positive Application of Complementarity in the African Human Rights System
According to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights establishing \nthe African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the main function of the Court is to complement \nthe protective mandate of the already existing African Commission on Human and \nPeoples’ Rights. Thus, complementarity was introduced into the framework of the African \nhuman rights system. Since then, the concept of complementarity has also been brought in…
Africanising Human Rights in the 21st Century
Since the late 1990s, African political leaders have personified the disgust that African societies supposedly hold against homosexuality and sexual minorities. Relying on international human rights norms that require the protection of sexual minority rights, advocates have mounted sustained pressure on parliaments in Africa to decriminalise homosexuality and make law advantageous to sexual minorities. This article argues that focus on parliament…
Federalism and the Challenge of Applying International Human Rights Law Against Child Marriage in Africa
Federalism presents a dilemma for the implementation of international human rights law in those African states that operate federal constitutions. Central governments in these states enjoy international legal personality, make treaties and represent their states as parties to those treaties, yet internal legislative competence over some issues regulated by treaty is commonly shared between central and regional governments. Consequently, while cen…
Human rights (4 works) · Human Rights and Development (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · International human rights law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Dilemma (2 works) · International law (2 works) · International Law and Human Rights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (2 works)