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Kaime, Thokozani:
SADC and human rights : Fitting human rights into the trade matrix.
In: African Security Review.
Bd. 13
(2004)
Heft 1
.
- S. 109-117.
ISSN 1024-6029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2004.9627278
Abstract
Most sub- Saharan countries possess limited development and economic potential because they are very poorly endowed with human and physical capital. Their plight is exacerbated because they are either denied much-needed investment owing to their small market size3 or because they are taken advantage of by foreign investors owing to their unequal bargaining power.4 Such countries are therefore caught in a vicious circle whereby poverty leads to an inability to access foreign investment, which only leads to further poverty. To overcome these difficulties and break the circle, regional integration has been pur- sued as the means for creating larger markets and consolidating the resources and potential of these poor economies. Such larger markets are expected to create greater economies of scale which will then attract investment and improve the development and economic potential of the countries concerned. In recognition of the limited capability of their individual economies, governments of the nine independent states of Southern Africa decided in 1980 to utilise their unity and proximity for two basic objectives: first, the joint co-operation for the sustainable social and economic development of their peoples and the economies of the nine states as a whole; and second, the economic libera- tion of the member states from historical domination in the region by the then apartheid South Africa. This contribution introduces the SADC regional integration mechanism, outlines its aims and objectives and demonstrates the pre- eminence of trade within the scheme. The paper proceeds to highlight the secondary sta- tus ascribed to human rights protection by the SADC Treaty, institutions and programmes despite the human-centred conception of development within the Treaty. It is contend- ed in this paper that the promotion and pro- tection of human rights is one of the central objectives of the integration initiative
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| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Rechtswissenschaften > Lehrstuhl African Legal Studies > Lehrstuhl African Legal Studies - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thokozani Kaime Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Rechtswissenschaften Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Rechtswissenschaften > Lehrstuhl African Legal Studies |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 340 Recht |
| Eingestellt am: | 10 Jul 2020 07:42 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 27 Jan 2022 10:33 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/55668 |