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Title:A Review of the African Convention on Nature and Natural Resources
Author:Van der Linde, MornéISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:African Human Rights Law Journal
Volume:2
Issue:1
Pages:33-59
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:African agreements
environmental policy
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Abstract:The African Convention on Nature and Natural Resources has been operational for slightly more than thirty years (since 1968) under the auspices of the OAU. At first glance it might be accounted a failure, among other reasons because it does not specify in any great detail. A general survey of environmental treaties reveals that they cover some eighteen categories, the African Convention specifies some five of these: biological diversity; forest resources; marine/coastal resources, and environmental and water resources management. Although environmental degradation and human rights abuses have grown in magnitude in recent years, environmental concerns still have a very high place on African agendas. A process of review was launched in 1983/4 and is still continuing. At the Fifth International Agency Meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 2002. twenty-eight new articles were added plus two additional annexes. The revised African Convention plays special attention to armed conflict and its potential danger to the environment The whole process has been strengthened by the setting up of a Conference of Parties (COP), in Article XXVI, and Secretariat, in Article XXVII. When the article was published there was hope that the whole business would be cut and dried by 2004. However, although there is some slow improvement, for things to really happen there must be a speeding up of ratification and financial resources will have to improve. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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