Recent articles and research – March 2025

March 1st, 2025
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Abbreviation Title Publisher Volume/issue
AHRLJ African Human Rights Law Journal Centre for Human Rights, Department of Law,
University of Pretoria
(2024) 24.2
CCR Constitutional Law Review NISC (Pty) Ltd (2024) 14.1

 

Adequate housing

Rankin, CSubstantiating access: Considering when access to housing becomes enough to warrant legal protection’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 321.

 

Affirmative action

Sahgal, RIn the aftermath: Poverty as a ground in South Africa and India’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 35.

 

Anti-homosexuality

Mubangizi, JCUganda’s unrelenting legislative efforts to criminalise same-sex relations: Implications for human rights’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 720.

 

Children’s rights

Oyeyemi, KKImplementation of the right of the child to be heard under article 12(1) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Nigeria: Lessons from South Africa’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 579.

 

Colonialism

Mavedzenge, JATowards a framework of reparatory measures for the enslavement and colonisation of the African people’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 395.

 

Customary law

Rawat, A“Marriage” as a structural barrier to women’s equality: A comparative analysis of polygyny in India and South Africa’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 175.

 

Defamation

Blouws, CA feminist legal response to the silencing and repression of women who survive violence’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 153.

 

Derivative misconduct

Ramji, B; Sibiya, S and Ramji, HTracing the historical development of employers’ legal remedies against strike action: Derivative misconduct, interdicts and dismissal by common purpose’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 207.

 

Drug laws

Maloisane, P and Mia, NDrug use, vulnerability and the effects of criminalisation of drug use on vulnerable groups’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 237.

 

Education

Quan, GMUnderstanding the right to education under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, within the four pillars of interpretation’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 502.

 

Environmental rights

McConnachie, CThe right to a safe environment, here and now’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 283.

 

Extraterritorial obligations

Abebe, BKExtraordinary rendition and extraterritorial reach of the African human rights system’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 447.

 

Female genital mutilation

Lasseko-Phooko, MLegislating against adult women’s consent to female genital mutilation: A feminist analysis of state practice in light of the Joint General Comment on Female Genital Mutilation by the African Commission and the African Children’s Committee’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 533.

 

Feminist jurisprudence

Matlala, RRape myths and the language of the law: The need for a feminist jurisprudential approach’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 137.

 

Government contracts

Cronin, BCan National Treasury dictate future spending? Unpacking the Constitutional Court’s view’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 343.

 

Health laws and policies

Adejumo, OADemystifying the legal restrictions on abortion in Nigeria: Time to change the narrative’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 559.

 

Human rights

Biegon, JThe impact of country-specific resolutions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 1994 – 2024’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 854.
Juma, PO and Orao, BThe role of the Kenyan Judiciary in the implementation of decisions and recommendations of African regional mechanisms on human and peoples’ rights’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 890.
Kebabazi, LWThe role of the African Commission in enhancing compliance with its decisions on communications’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 781.
Mbanje, T and Okoloise, CA contextual approach to strengthening state capacity to implement the decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 911.
Namakula, CSExpounding the frontiers of the human rights agenda of the African Union for the extra-Africa diaspora’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 424.
Obwogi, JO and Kremte, HADecoding implementation of African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights decisions on communications in Botswana, Kenya and Ethiopia’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 804.
Okoloise, CSystematising monitoring: The case for a special mechanism for following up on the implementation of decisions by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 985.
Olajuwon, TG and Asamoah, LOThe role of the Peace and Security Council in implementing the decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 1017.
Purmah, NRDiplomatic mechanisms as a springboard to enhance the implementation of decisions by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights with specific reference to persons with disabilities’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 962.
Viljoen, F; Adegalu, F and Olaitan, ZOSpecial focus: Implementation of decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights – Editorial’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 772.

 

Intersectionality

Ramalekana, N and De Vos, PErasure, xenophobic discrimination and non-citizens’ rights to equality and work in South Africa: A commentary on Rafoneke v Minister of Justice’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 1.

 

Judicial authority

Herd, NSchrödinger’s interdict? Subsidiarity and avoidance; the rule of law and constitutional rights’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 413.

 

LGBTIQ+ rights

Reiss, M and Tabengwa, MTug-of-war: LGBTIQ+ rights in the African human rights architecture’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 472.

 

Minimum age of sexual consent

Moyo, MSexual consent laws and the child’s right to freedom from sexual exploitation in Zimbabwe: Unpacking the “polarising” legacy of Kawenda & Another v Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs & Others’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 743.

 

Non-communicable diseases

Muwanga, TSN and Korsten, LThe right to food in South Africa: A consumer protection perspective’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 632.

 

Parole system

Surajpal, SKWhen life means life: Considerations of rationality, dignity, and freedom and security of the person in the lifer parole process’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 261.

 

Refugees

Agaba, DKAnalysing the implementation of refugee laws and policies in relation to women and girls: A case of Kampala, Uganda’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 684.
Deng, MAWImplications of James Dak’s 2016 deportation to South Sudan by the Kenyatta government in violation of international refugee law’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 659.

 

Right to equality

Winchester, JMaking the world differently: A transformative approach to reasonable accommodation’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 71.

 

State reporting process

Ayeni, VOThe role of the African Commission in enhancing implementation monitoring through dialogue and documentation’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 937.

 

Substantive equality

Basson, GBTowards transformative subsidiarity principles under the Constitutional Non-Discrimination Right and Equality Act’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 367.

 

Succession

Osman, FBwanya v Master: A softening of the doctrine of precedent’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 441.

 

Traditional leadership

Osman, FAn examination of the recognition of communities and partnership agreements under South Africa’s Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act’ (2024) 24.2 AHRLJ 609.

 

Tribute

Bishop, MThis is just a tribute’ (2024) 14.1 CCR iii.

 

Women’s equality

Campbell, M and Warwick, BTCTemporality and the construction of women’s structural inequality’ (2024) 14.1 CCR 115.

 
Kathleen Kriel BTech (Journ) is the Production Editor at De Rebus.
This article was first published in De Rebus in 2025 (March) DR 59.

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