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Forced Evictions and Disability Rights in Africa

Online article looking at forced evictions and disability rights in Africa written by Buhle Angelo Dube who is a lecturer at the University of Swaziland's Law Department. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

The first section explains the background to forced evictions and their impact in Africa and focuses on this practice in Ghana, Swaziland and Botswana. The author also looks at the legal remedies available focusing on instruments such as the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

The second section looks at disability rights in Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Kenya, Namibia and Ghana.

The final section considers the links between forced evictions and disability rights. There is a bibliography of books, articles, reports, cases and relevant websites.

Source: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/