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| Title: | Treaty interpretation in the African regional human rights system: streamlining the 'conventional' and the 'special' |
| Author: | Yeshanew, Sisay A. |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Periodical: | East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights (ISSN 1021-8858) |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-17 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | African agreements international agreements human rights |
| Abstract: | The treaties constituting the African regional human rights system uniquely enshrine provisions on principles of interpretation. The article argues for the application of these special principles in harmony with the conventional international law of treaty interpretation. It further demonstrates the application of the rules of treaty interpretation in the African human rights system with practical examples from the jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. It underscores the need for a more principled and clearer reasoning that lays out the rules of interpretation that apply in the specific cases that the monitoring bodies in the regional system decide. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |