By:  M. Addaney, C. G. Moyo & T. Ramakhula

Source: https://link-springer-com.fgul.idm.oclc.org/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-46523-0_1#chapter-info 

ABSTRACT

The intersection between human rights and the environment is one that is gaining traction, especially in the Global South. Most scholarship in this area has tended to focus on the issue in the context of Europe, United States of America and Asia (and Oceania). This chapter establishes the link between human rights and the environment in the African context. It examines the treaties and conventions, with a regional reach, under the African Union, like the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (the African Convention); Bamako Convention on the Ban of Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Waste Within Africa; African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol). Moreover, this chapter further examines landmark cases that have been litigated in Africa which establish the relationship between human rights and the environment in order to lay solid foundation for the rest of the chapters in this book.