How Long to Read The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

How Long Does it Take to Read The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 1 minute to read The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by Nat Rubner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that eventually brought it into being and determined its content. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), which was proposed in 1979, adopted in 1981 and came into effect in 1986, was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. With Africa largely absent in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, it stands in stark historical reproach to the Western conception of universal human rights as a pivotal document in the decolonisation of the continent. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, which is key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Through documenting its process of construction, it becomes possible to understand how Africans themselves understood the process and the issues involved and how the ACHPR became a political text asserted by African leaders and not a continuum of a so-called universal human rights tradition. The result is a radical repositioning of the underlying context of the ACHPR, one of the most important documents in modern African history, of how it came to be and how it should therefore be understood. Volume 2 describes the process through which the ACHPR came into being. Analysing the role of Western governments, the UN and NGOs, it shows that, contrary to the prevailing view of African human rights commentators, their influence was limited and at times counter-productive. That, in fact, the formulation of the ACHPR was a profoundly political process that was primarily a product of an African desire to instigate its own human rights perspective as a counter to the human rights universalism advanced by the Western post-war human rights tradition.

How long is The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights?

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights by Nat Rubner is 527 pages long, and a total of 135,439 words.

This makes it 178% the length of the average book. It also has 166% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 20 minutes to read The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights aloud.

What Reading Level is The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights?

The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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