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    The impact of regional integration on human rights protection in Africa
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2013) Ngendahiman, Jean-Bosco
    The history of the world, both ancient and modern has shown and continues to show that states, left to themselves, cannot be trusted to protect their citizens and other residents against arbitrary, discriminatory and other repressive acts and decisions of state officials acting in the name of the state. It is in this context that the choice of the topic: “The Impact of Regional Integration on Human Rights Protection in Africa” intends to highlight the existing mechanisms of human rights in REC while searching how effective they can be implemented for the betterment of the human rights protection.Indeed, sixty-five years after the United Nations adopted the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and almost thirty years after the OAU adopted its Charter, the human rights situation on the African continent is decidedly bleak. The System of Human Rights Protection, founded under the Charter, suffers from serious defects. Given the causes of human rights violations in Africa, the researcher is convinced that the system of human rights protection which is people centered will curb passive complicity among African leaders. Contrary to the lack of commitment experienced at the level of African Union in terms of human rights protection, it is notable that RECs have already granted direct access to individuals in their constitutive treaties. It is with hope that these arrangements will impact on the cause of human rights in their respective jurisdictions in case courts’ decisions are respected by the convicted states.