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Canadian-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements (1999-2011): An Introduction, Obiora C. Okafor
Canadian-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements (1999-2011): An Introduction, Obiora C. Okafor
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More contemporary Canadian-Nigerian human rights engagements have occurred against the backdrop of a relatively long history of engagement in this area between the two countries, and alongside an even longer history of Canadian-Nigerian relations more generally. These are histories within which one must situate the human rights engagements between these countries during the specific period under study here. As is well known, Canada established diplomatic relations with Nigeria shortly after Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule in 1960. Nigeria reciprocated in 1973. It is noteworthy that Canada has for several decades now funded or otherwise supported many human rights efforts …
Baxian Tremf Anxieties And Patterns Of Norm Entrepreneurship In Canada-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements: A Theoretical Overview, Obiora C. Okafor
Baxian Tremf Anxieties And Patterns Of Norm Entrepreneurship In Canada-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements: A Theoretical Overview, Obiora C. Okafor
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The article argues that the evidence that has been systematically analyzed in the study that grounds this volume at once support and undermine certain elements of the two theoretical frameworks that grounded the research: Upendra Baxi’s germinal theory on the emergence to global dominance of a kind of “trade-related market-friendly human rights” (TREMF) paradigm/discourse/mentality, and Martha Finnemore and Karthryn Sikikink’s strategic social constructivist theory on the role of the norm entrepreneur in generating and driving the so-called human rights “norm life cycles.” The article then suggests, in consequence, that both of these theoretical frameworks require a (modest) measure of refinement.
The Nature, Attainments, Problems And Prospects Of Canadian-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements: An Analytical Overview, Obiora C. Okafor
The Nature, Attainments, Problems And Prospects Of Canadian-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements: An Analytical Overview, Obiora C. Okafor
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By way of a fully developed conclusion, this article offers a broad analytical overview of the insights that have been jointly and severally generated by the main sub-studies on which the articles in this volume are based. It offers such overarching discussions, one after the other, in relation to the nature, attainments, problems, and prospects of Canadian-Nigerian international human rights engagements. Drawing upon these analytical insights, the article then makes some pertinent recommendations that are addressed to the relevant stakeholders, especially in Canada and Nigeria, i.e. policy-makers, practitioners and theorists alike (depending on which of the itemized points they find …
Poverty In The Human Rights Jurisprudence Of The Nigerian Appellate Courts (1999-2011), Obiora C. Okafor, Basil E. Ugochukwu
Poverty In The Human Rights Jurisprudence Of The Nigerian Appellate Courts (1999-2011), Obiora C. Okafor, Basil E. Ugochukwu
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The major objective of this article is to examine the extent to which the human rights jurisprudence of the Nigerian appellate courts has been sensitive and/or receptive to the socio-economic and political claims of Nigeria’s large population of the poor and marginalized. In particular, the article considers: the extent to which Nigerian human rights jurisprudence has either facilitated or hindered the efforts of the poor to ameliorate their own poverty; the kinds of conceptual apparatuses and analyses utilized by the Nigerian courts in examining the issues brought before it that concerned the specific conditions of the poor; and the key …