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Class of 2011 - Topics

• ABDU Abdurazak
  The need for the political representation of persons with disabilities in Ethiopia
• ADEWOYE Oluwatomilola
  Socio-economic rights litigation as a means to engendering social change in South Africa: An introduction and context.
• ADUBA Nkeiruka
  Million flickering embers: A multidisciplinary analysis of child mortality in Uganda
• ASSEFA Ayalew
  The impact of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Protocol on the Rights of Women on the South African judiciary
• AYENI Victor
  Domestic impact of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: A case study of Nigeria
• BUABENG-BAIDOO Johannes
  ‘Human rights do not stop at the border’: A critical examination of the fundamental rights of irregular migrants to South Africa
• CHENGETA Thompson
  Are U.S. drone targeted killings within the confines of the law?
• CHILEMBA Enoch
  A critical appraisal of the right to primary education of children with disabilities in Malawi
• DEYI Busisiwe
  When rights collide with reality: An argument for a dialogic approach by the Africa Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the ‘effective remedy’ principle based on a distributive justice ethos
• LUBAALE Emma
  A human rights-based approach to child labour in Africa: Challenges and prospects in South Africa
• MAHADEW Roopanand
  The African Union’s responsibility to protect in the Libyan crisis 2011   
• MANDIPA Esau
  A critical analysis of the legal and institutional frameworks for the realisation of the rights of persons with disabilities in Zimbabwe 
• MCHOMVU Frank
  Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of elections in Africa: Can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC
• MILEJI Gift
  ‘Power-sharing government mechanisms’ are they a solution or an obstacle to democratisation in Africa? A focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe 
• NAMWASE Sylvie
  The principle of legality and prosecution of international crimes in domestic courts: Lessons from Uganda
• NGUENA Charles
  The role of the economic community of Centre African states in the maintenance of peace and security in Central Africa
• NHANCALE Paulo
  Reform of legal protection of persons with disabilities in Mozambique
• NIBOGORA Berry
  The right to reparations in  the context of transitional justice: Lessons for Burundi from South Africa, Chile, Peru and Colombia
• NTANJANA Akho   
  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and women – The implementation of Article 10(3) of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in South Africa
• NYALUGWE Gina
  A human rights based approach to the psychiatric treatment of mental illness among prisoners in Uganda 
• NYARANG’O Ivy
  The role of the judiciary in the protection of sexual minorities in Kenya
• OLOYA Charlotte
  Decentralisation as a tool in managing the ethnic question: A case study of Uganda
• PILLAY Kevashinee
  The effectiveness of local integration as a durable solution: The situation of Mauritanian refuges in Senegal
• RUBAGUMYA Jean
  Application of international human rights instruments (IHRIs) by domestic courts: A comparative study of Rwanda and Ghana
• SALEWI Diana
  The killing of persons with albinism in Tanzania: A social-legal inquiry
• SCHEEPERS Ella
  A framework convention on global health: A tool for empowering the HIV/AIDS movements in South Africa and Senegal
• SONSIAMA Doris
  A critical analysis of the jurisprudence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone on the use of child soldiers  
• TECHANE Meskerem
  Where is the African Charter?: Assessing the impact of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Mauritius
• UMUBYEYI Christine
  Access to justice in civil matters: A critical analysis of legal representation of minors under guardianship in Rwanda
• WARIOBA Isabela
  The first-past-the-post electoral system versus proportional representation in Africa: A comparative analysis

Class of 2010 - Topics

• AG ALY Lahyerou
  The rights of the indigenous peoples to self Determination: Attempts to address the violation of human rights with specific reference to Mali
• AKO Ernest
  The debate on sexual minority rights in Africa: A comparative analysis of the situation in South Africa, Uganda, Malawi and Botswana
• ATTA-BOAHENE Marian
  Divorce in Ghana: An examination of women’s ‘property rights
• BEKELE Melhik
  Counter-terrorism and the suppression of political pluralism: An examination of the Anti-terrorism Proclamation of Ethiopia
• CHIBONNTA Bubala
  A comparative analysis of judicial independence in Zambia and South Africa: Security of tenure, appointment and removal procedures
• DUBE Rumbidzai
  Fighting unconstitutional changes of government or merely politicking? A critical analysis of the African Union response
• FARAH Mohamed
  The tension between the right to external self-determination and territorial integrity in Africa: Somaliland as a case study
• GINAMIA Melody
  Access to land and land rights in post conflict societies in Uganda: A perspective on women’s and children’s rights
• GURARO Martha
  Furthering justice or promoting impunity? A critical analysis of the proposed criminal jurisdiction in the African Court of Justice and Human Rights
• JONAS Obonye
  A critical appraisal of the mutual engagement of African states in the African Peer Review and universal periodic review mechanisms: A human rights perspective
• KARUMUNA Ophilia
  Protection of witnesses in cases referred by the ICTR to Rwanda 
• KHUMALO-MATSE Lindiwe
  The right to development: a collective African response to China’s modus operandi in Africa?
• KIHARA Ivy
  The Impact of terrorism and counter-terrorism on the right to education
• KISEGU Mathias
  Constitutional protection of the right to education in Tanzania and South Africa: A comparative study
• LOPES Emerson
  Human rights in tourism: Effectiveness of the legal framework for tourism in Mozambique upon the realization of the right to development of local communities
• MAMBULASA Mandala
  The (non)-regulation of the health insurance industry and Its potential impact on the rights to health and life: A comparative analysis of Malawi and South Africa
• MARINDZE Americo
  Diplomatic protection and xenophobic violence in South Africa: The case for reparation to Mozambican victims
• MARRAH Augustine
  Enquiring into the contributions of African philosophic conceptualisations of human rights to the modern discourse of human rights
• MBUH Tem Fuh
  Election management in Cameroon: Can elections Cameroon (ELECAM) turn the tide of flawed elections?
• MENZAN Bruno
  Determining the impediments to the efficiency and effectiveness of the national human rights commission of Côte d’Ivoire: are the Paris Principles a panacea?
• MTSHALI Linda
  The protection of women’s rights in Africa through national human rights institutions (NHRIs): A case study of Ghana and the Republic of South Africa
• NYOIKE-MUGO Wanjiku
  The power of song: an analysis on the power of music festivals or concerts as a tool for human rights education in Africa
• ODALLO Beatrice
  An analysis of the post 2007 general election conflict mediation process in Kenya
• OGBUITEPU Flora
  Seeking an effective national supervisory institution on the implementation of children’s rights in Africa
• OKUNBOLADE Ajibike
  A comparative analysis of the role of sub-national parliaments in international human rights law in Nigeria and South Africa
• ORAGO Nicholas
  Interrogating the competence of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights to review the African Union Assembly’s decisions for compliance with human rights
• TEFERI Desset
  The role of civil society organisations in the realisation of human rights in Africa and the effect of regulatory mechanisms on their functions: Ethiopia and Ghana in perspective 
• WEDI-DJAMBA Dieu-Donne
  Bread and peace for the Democratic Republic of Congo: Is decentralisation the answer? 
• WHITTAKER Nicole
  Human rights implementation and compliance: Prospects for realising the AU convention on internally displaced persons in Uganda

Class of 2009 - Topics

• ABEBE Adem Kassie
  The power of indigenous peoples to veto development activities: The right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) with specific reference to Ethiopia
• ALI Abdi Jibril
  The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the regional economic communities: The need for co-operation
• ASAALA Evelyne
  Exploring transitional justice as a vehicle for social and political transformation in Kenya
• ASSIM Usang Maria
  In the best interest of children deprived of a family environment: A focus on Islamic kafalah as an alternative care option
• ATIM Patricia
  ‘The prodigal child’: A legal inquiry into the mechanisms for rehabilitation and reintegration of juvenile detainees: Lessons from Mauritius
• BOSIRE Conrad Mugoya
  A dry udder in the milk season? Natural resource exploitation in Africa: Realising the right to economic benefit for host communities
• CHERE Mitiku Mekonnen
  The recognition of language rights under international human rights law: Analysis of its protection in Ethiopia and Mauritius
• CHITUPILA Chongo
  Gold between their legs? Trafficking in women for sexual exploitation: An analysis of the SADC response at national and regional level
• FOQUICO Claudio Castigo
  Trade liberalisation and human rights protection under the SADC
• HARDOWAR Rishi Kumarsingh
  Improving domestic enforcement of socio-economic rights through international law: Ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by South Africa
• IYODU Bernadette
  Culture, participation and the right to development: the pastoralist dilemma – The Karamoja case study 
• KAWERA Sylvie
  Proportional representation electoral system and conflict management in divided societies. The case of Rwanda and Kenya
• KONE Kamara
  Pollution in Africa: A new toxic waste colonialism? An assessment of compliance of the Bamako Convention in Cote d’Ivoire
  LUNGA Zwelibanzi
  Yielding to marketocracy? Assessing the ruggie framework on business and human rights
• MAMAD Farida Aligy Ussen
  Forced sterilization of women living with HIV/AIDS in Africa
• MAVUNDLA Simangele
  Access to legal abortion by rape victims as a reproductive health right: Case study Swaziland and Ethiopia
• MSANGI Mwajuma Kitoi
  A socio-legal analysis of the challenges to a durable return and reintegration of refugees: The case of Rwanda
• MULISA Tom
  Public participation in constitution-making: A critical assessment of the Kenyan experience
• MULU Anchinesh Shiferaw
  Legal protections to victims of transnational trafficking: The case of Ethiopia and Mozambique
• MURUNGI Lucyline Nkatha
  Revisiting the role of sub-regional courts in the protection of human rights in Africa
• NHAMPOSSA Joao Valentim
  Challenges to the implementation and enforcement of socioeconomic rights in Mozambique
• NJOROGE Mercy Waithira
  Ships passing in the night? Opportunities to integrate the African Peer Review Mechanism early warning findings within the African Union peace and security Architecture
• NKUUBI James
  When ‘messiahs’ turn ‘persecutors’: reflecting on the blocked transition of liberation movements in Africa-case study of ZANU-PF
• NORTON Fleur
  The role of the law in confronting marital rape (a case study of Ghana)
• NWAGU Chinedu Yves
  Counter-terrorism and human rights protection in Uganda: Preventing wrongs without violating rights
• OKWOR Uchechukwu Victoria
  Where are the mothers? Interrogating maternal mortality as a violation of the rights to life and health: A Nigerian and Ethiopian perspective
• SEEGOBIN Krishna Sham
  The human rights implications of the ‘best loser system’ in Mauritius and prospect of reform
• THEU Bright
  The law of self-determination (secession in perspective): Way forward after Kosovo and Southern Sudan
•  ZARIFIS Ismene Nicole
  The realization of victims’ rights to reparations: Assessing the need for a comprehensive reparations program in Uganda

Class of 2008 - Topics

• ANGULA Adda Kaone
  Partakers or spectators? An analysis of civil society participation in the formulation of environmental policy and legislation in Uganda
• AVWOMAKPA Tareri
  A rights-based approach to indigenous minorities: Focus on the Urhobo and Ogoni peoples of the Niger Delta in Nigeria
• BAREEBE Rosemary Ngabirano
  Alternative sentencing of parent offenders and implications on the rights of the child in Uganda’s criminal justice system
• BIEGON Japheth Kiplangat
  The advent of unholy alliances? Coalition governments in the aftermath of disputed elections and electoral violence in Africa: A case study of Kenya
• DINOKOPILA Bonolo Ramadi
  Beyond affiliate status: Extrapolating the participation of national human rights institutions in the Workings of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• DLAMINI Dumsani
  The right to freedom of association in Swaziland: A critique
• FERNANDEZ Todd
  Corruption, no rule of law, no democracy: Could separately elected attorneys general in a divided executive give Africa new hope?
• GESSESSE Fasil
  A human rights approach to solving water conflicts over the use of trans-boundary rivers: Focus on the Nile Basin
• HERSI Mohamed
  The possibilities of international prosecution against the former Somali military regime for human rights abuses in Somaliland from 1981 to 1991: Establishing individual criminal and civil responsibility under international law
• IGWETA Rhoda
  The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the promotion and protection of prisoners’ rights: An analysis
• JEGEDE Ademola
  The African Union peace and security architecture: Can the Panel of the Wise make a difference?
• JERE Victor
  The right to equality in the work place for persons with physical disabilities in Malawi: Does the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities offer any hope?
• KAMARA Mohamed
  Law enforcement and human rights in post-conflict African societies. The case of Sierra Leone
• LASSEKO Matilda
  Human rights implications of including services in economic partnership agreements: The case of banking services in Ghana
• MAHAMAN Hadiza
  The use of human rights model to address the problem of health care and reproductive rights of women, most importantly victims of obstetric fistula in Africa
• MANDLATE Aquinaldo
  Democracy in practice: Exploring parliamentary elections in Mozambique
• MBANO Ngcimezile
  Whether it should be a legally enforceable duty to disclose one’s HIV status to a sexual partner: Critical analysis of Article 14(1)(e) of the African Women’s Protocol
• MIAMINGI Remember
  Inclusion by exclusion? An assessment of the justiciability of socio-economic rights under the 2005 Interim National Constitution of The Sudan
• MMBANDO Charles
  Towards the realisation of the right of access to justice: A comparative analysis of the legal aid schemes in Tanzania and Ghana
• MUSARURWA Tazorora
  Creating sustainable democracy in Africa: An African supranational body for the effective supervision of elections in Africa
• NCHALLA Benedict
  The impact of foreign direct investment on socio-economic rights of indigenous peoples: A case study of the Barabaig of Tanzania and the Basarwa of Botswana
• OFEI Peace
  The International Criminal Court and the principle of complementarity: A comparison of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the situation in Darfur
• OGBONNA Hilary
  Growing without poverty: The role of good governance and pro-poor growth in the realisation of socio-economic rights and human development in Africa
• ONUORA-OGUNO Azubike
  Assessing the rights of the indigenous child to education- a case study of the Batwa in Uganda
• PADUA Angela
  An analysis of African Union mechanisms for women participation in peace building and decision making after post conflict situations: The case of Mozambique and Rwanda
• SHALE Itumeleng
  Who is watching who? Regulation of media and freedom of expression in Uganda: A critical analysis of the Press and Journalists Act 1995
• SWART Sarah
  Unaccompanied minor refugees and the protection of their socio-economic rights under human rights law
• TADEG Mensenbet
  The right to development as a normative framework for the human rights obligations of international financial institutions
• TESSEMA Samuel
  Competition to attract foreign direct investment through tax Incentives as a threat for the realisation of socio-economic rights in Africa
• UKUNI Clare
  Un-triggering the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court: The Ugandan referral of the situation concerning the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda to the International Criminal Court
• WICOMB Wilhelmina
  Testing the water while the house is on fire: A critical approach to the African Union conflict management system
• ZELEZECK Serge
  Popular participation for disempowerment? Democratic constitution making in the context of African liberal democracy

Class of 2007 - Topics

• ACHAN Patricia Okiria
  The internal displacement crisis in Africa: Implementation of national and international law on the child marriage phenomenon in Uganda
• ADEGBOLA Ruth Esemeje
  Children’s rights in Africa: An appraisal of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights And Welfare of the Child
• ADJOLOHOUN Horace Segnonna
  The ‘right to reparation’ as applied under the African Charter by Benin’s Constitutional Court
• AKINTAYO Akinola Ebunolu
  The role of human rights lawyers in rights based approach to reduction of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
• ALEMU Tikikel Tadele
  The African Charter on Democracy, Elections And Governance: A normative framework for analysing electoral democracy in Africa
• BIZIMANA Syldie
  A critical analysis of the right to education for refugee children in Great Lakes: The case study of Burundi
• CHABANE Polo Evodia
  Enforcement powers of national human rights institutions: A case study of Ghana, South Africa and Uganda
• DIALA Chima Anthony
  Judicial activism in South Africa’s Constitutional Court: Minority protection or judicial illegitimacy?
• DUBE Buhle Angelo
  Protection of the rights of persons living with disabilities under the African human rights system
• GERALDO Geraldine
  Labour rights and free trade zones in Mozambique and Namibia: A crippling cocktail?
• JANKA Dejene Girma
  The realization of the right to housing in Ethiopia
• KAMAU Virginia Njeri
  Achieving sustainable development and indigenous rights in Africa: Tensions and prospects
• KAMIDI Rino
  A legal response to child trafficking in Africa: A case study of South Africa and Benin
• KAMUGISHA Grace Kazoba
  Exploring the legal implications of the trips trademark rules on the consumers’ right to health in Africa
• LANDO Victor Okoth Ogwang
  Rethinking Kenya’s anti-corruption strategies: Lessons from Botswana
• MAJA Innocent
  Towards the protection of minority languages in Africa
• MILLYA James Kinyasi
  The impact of direct foreign and local investment on indigenous communities in East Africa: A case study of the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania
• MWARIRI Gladys Wanjiru
  The impact of international trade and investment policies on the labour rights of export processing zones’ workers: The case of Kenya
• NELDINJAYE Kameldy
  Challenging impunity in northern Uganda: the tension between amnesties and the principle of international criminal responsibility
• ]NGUFOR FORKUM Polycarp
  Police corruption in Cameroon and Uganda: a comparative analysis
• NKOUNKOU NGONGO Estelle
  Protection of children’s rights in peacekeeping missions: Analysis of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
• RAMMULE Lorato
  International parental child abductions- remedial mechanisms within the African human rights system
• SENGENDO Rosemary
  Exploring, understanding and finding solutions to the conflict in Northern Uganda through the African democratic audit
• SHYLLON Ololade Olakitan
  The right to the return of african cultural heritage: A human rights perspective
• SIMONSZ David Charles
  In search of international tort law: Civil liability of arms manufacturers for indirect sales to embargoed conflict zones
• SINGIZA Douglas Karekona
  Exorcising the antiquity spirit of intolerance: possibilities and dilemmas of decriminalising sodomy laws in Uganda
• TADESSE Mizanie Abate
  HIV testing from an African human rights system perspective: An analysis of the legal and policy framework of Botswana, Ethiopia and Uganda
• TANOH Armand
  The role of the Peace and Security Council and the Assembly of Head of States and Government of the African Union in pursuit of democratisation in Africa

Class of 2006 - Topics

• AMBANI John Osogo
  Oval slides in triangular spaces? Anchoring national human rights institutions in ‘tripartite’ Commonwealth Africa
• AMOLLO Rebecca
  A critical reflection on the African Women's Protocol as a means to combat HIV/AIDS among women in Africa
• BARIBONEKEZA Jean-Baptiste
  Political participation of refugees as a means to realize the right to repatriation: The search for a durable solution to the refugee problem in Africa
• BECKLEY Jennifer Nellie
  Towards the realisation of the right to a fair hearing of child offenders in post-conflict Sierra Leone
• BEKELE Eskedar Abebe
  Implications of ECOSOCC’s mandate for the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa: Inquiry into the relationship between ECOSOCC and the human rights organs of the African Union
• CONTEH Sonkita
  Inhibiting ‘progressive realisation’? The effect of privatisation on the right to water in Senegal and South Africa
• EBOBRAH Solomon Tamarabrakemi
  Towards effective realisation of the right to a satisfactory environment in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: A case for domestic horizontal application
• ESOM Kenechukwu Chimobi
  Twice traumatised: Assessing the unaccompanied refugee child’s rights to family unity and reunification
• HAMIDU Mariam
  The open-door approach to locus standi by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in respect of its non-state complaints procedure: In need of reform?
• HANZI Roselyn
  Sexual abuse and exploitation of the girl child through cultural practices in Zimbabwe: A human rights perspective
• HIRPO Sehen Bekele
  The Pan-African Parliament: Its promise for human rights and democracy in Africa
• HUAMUSSE Luis Edgar Francisco
  The right of sexual minorities under the African human rights system
• KUVEYA Lloyd
  The effectiveness and propriety of friendly settlements in the African regional system: A comparative analysis with the Inter-American and European regional systems
• KWENDA Inonge
  Infrequent and inadequate reporting under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The African Peer Review Mechanism as a solution
• MAINDI Grace Wakio
  The African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council: An evaluation of its mandate of facilitating civil society participation in the African Union
• MASINGI Thabang
  Academic freedom in Africa: A case for the interpretation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights as providing protection for the human right to academic freedom
• MAVUNGU Phebe Clement
  For an effective implementation of reparation of the victims of gross and systematic human rights violations: The case study of Sierra Leone and lessons for the Democratic Republic of Congo
• MBENGUE ELEKE Irene Desiree
  Effective reintegration of female child soldiers: Reality or rhetoric? Case study of Northern Uganda
• MIRUGI-MUKUNDI Gladys Thitu
  The impact of corruption on governance: An appraisal of the practice of the rule of law in Kenya
• MOTIKA Benjamin Jonas
  Towards effective implementation of children’s rights in Tanzania: Lessons and opportunities from Ghana and South Africa
• MWANANYANDA Muleya Florence
  Fumbling under the veil: Access to information and democracy: The Zambian case
• MWENIFUMBO Anganile Willie Amon
  Silver bullet or not?: The impact of agricultural biotechnology on the right to food in Africa
• N'DRI Maurice Kouadio
  Critical analysis of victims’ rights before international criminal justice
• OKELLO Edward Odhiambo
  Guaranteeing the independence of election management bodies in Africa: A study of the electoral commissions of Kenya and South Africa
• RUBASHA Herbert
  Accommodating diversity: Is the doctrine of margin of appreciation as applied in the European Court of Human Rights relevant in the African human rights system?
• SIDIBE Ibrahima
  Freedom of belief at the crossroad of civilisations, an Islamic perspective, and its impact on Africa: the cases of Egypt and Nigeria
• THABANE Tebello
  Bridging the gap between de jure and de facto parliamentary representation of women in Africa: Lessons from Rwanda and South Africa
• TSEGAY Tesfamicael Negash
  Accomplishments, shortcomings and challenges: Evaluation of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
• TUMWINE William
  The role of public opinion in court decisions on the legality of the death penalty: A look at Uganda and South Africa
• WAMUNYIMA Mbololwa
  Constitution making in Zambia: The need for a new perspective
• WELDEHAIMANOT Simon Mebrahtu
  New architecture for the un human rights treaties monitoring mechanisms: Merging and partitioning the committees

Class of 2005 - Topics

• ACIROKOP Prudence
  Pitied and then ignored: International response to the plight of children in armed conflict: The case of Uganda
• AMPOFO-ANTI Okyerebea
  The impact of intra-party democracy on democratisation in Africa: A case study of Ghana
• BADWAZA Yoseph Mulugeta
  Public interest litigation as practised by South African human rights NGOs: Any lessons for Ethiopia
• BELAY Frenesh Tessema
  A critical analysis of the non-derogable rights in a state of emergency under the African system: The case of Ethiopia and Mozambique
• BHOKE Chacha
  Genocide: A critical analysis of the Darfur conflict in Sudan
• CHAMBO Janet Apelles
  The principle of non-refoulement in the context of refugee operation in Tanzania
• CHINGORE Nyasha Constance
  Rethinking the right to vote: HIV/AIDS and its impact on electoral participation in sub-Saharan Africa
• CHISALA Sarai Eunice
  Protecting traditional healing practices in Malawi: Are there lessons to be learnt from South Africa?
• FERNANDEZ Joao Miguel
  Enforcement of international human rights law in domestic courts in Mozambique and Ghana
• GABELA Zandile Sebenzile
  The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) case as a model for the protection of the right to health in Africa, with particular reference to South Africa and Cameroon
• MAPFUMO Tafadzwa
  Whither to, the judiciary in Zimbabwe? A critical analysis of the human rights jurisprudence of the Gubbay and Chidyausiku Supreme Court benches in Zimbabwe and comparative experiences from Uganda
• MASEKO Thulani Rudolph
  The writing of a democratic constitution in Africa with reference to Swaziland and Uganda
• MBARU Monica
  “Disabled women” and the right to work: The case of Kenya
• MEZMUR Beyam Dawit
  Children at both ends of the gun: Towards a comprehensive legal approach to the problem of child soldiers in Africa
• MUJUZI Jamil
  Safeguarding the right to freedom from torture in Africa: The Robben Island Guidelines
• MUTANGI Tarisai
  Fact-finding missions or omissions: A critical analysis of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and lessons to be learnt from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• NDAYIKENGURUKIYE Michel
  The international human rights law as a source of law in the Burundian judicial system
• NGARHODJIM Nadjita Francis
  Sub-regional integration and democratisation in Africa: Critically analysing the approach of the ECOWAS in West Africa
• NKHATA Mwiza Jo
  The social trust and leadership roles: Revitalising duty bearer accountability in the protection of social and economic rights in Malawi and Uganda
• NSABIMANA Christian Garuka
  The concept of power sharing in the Constitutions of Burundi and Rwanda
• OBIOKOYE Iruoma Onyinye
  Eradicating delay in the administration of justice in African courts: A comparative analysis of South African and Nigerian courts
• OBURA Ken Otieno
  Development as a human right: An examination of the right to development under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• OGUNDOKUN Ope Adetoro
  A human rights approach to combating corruption in Africa: Appraising the AU Convention using Nigeria and South Africa
• OUMA Steve Odero
  Federalism as a peacemaking device in Sudan’s interim National Constitution
• SAINE Marie Firdaus
  Protecting the rights of children in trouble with the law: A case study of South Africa and The Gambia
• TCHOUMAVI Messelo Boris-Ephrem
  A critical assessment of the possible role of the African Union in Achieving the right to national and international peace and security in Africa
• TRILLO DIAZ Liliana
  Protection of access to essential treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda from a human rights perspective

Class of 2004 - Topics

• AFUBA Divine
  The enforcement of detainees´ rights in Africa: A comparative study between Cameroon and South Africa
• ASUBIARO Omowumi
  www.crimesagainstchildren.com: Addressing child pornography via the Internet in Africa
• CHARI Nyaradzo
  Reconceptualising prostitution: Placing prostitutes in Africa within the human rights discourse
• CHETTY Maushami
  The reparation process: Does South Africa live up to its human rights obligations?
• DIWOUTA TIKI Christele
  The place of women in the political sphere: A comparative study of Cameroon and South Africa
• EBA Patrick
  ‘The sins of the saviours’: Formulating a comprehensive and effective response to violations of human rights and humanitarian law committed by ECOMOG peacekeepers\
• FESSHA Yonatan
  Who interprets the constitution: A descriptive and normative discourse on the Ethiopian approach to constitutional review
• FOKWA TSAKACK Jean
  In search for direct corporate responsibility for human rights violations in Africa: Which way forward?
• FOLEY Edmund
  Taking a critical look at conflict resolution and human rights from the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union
• GEBRESELASSIE Yonas
  The United Nations and the African Union in the prevention of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Africa: Lessons from Rwanda
• HARRIS Isatou
  The protection of the right of women under the African human rights system in light of the HIV/AIDS pandemic:A case study of Mozambique
• JACOBS Carmel
  New wine in old wineskins? Defining the role of the Women’s Protocol in the protection of widows’ inheritance rights: South Africa and Uganda in focus
• KAPINDU Redson
  The role of poverty reduction strategies in advancing economic and social rights: Malawian and Ugandan experiences
• KAYITARE Frank
  Respect of the right to a fair trial in indigenous African criminal justice systems: The case of Rwanda and South Africa
• MUGEMANGANGO Paul
  Immunity from prosecution for genocide, crime against humanity and war crimes: the case of heads of state
• MUGISHA Bernard
  The rights of women and children as internally displaced persons: The case of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
• MUSILA Godfrey
  Whistling past the graveyard: Amnesty and the right to an effective remedy under the African Charter: The case of South Africa and Moçambique
• MWANSA Abraham
  Election politics and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD): Comparing the 2001 elections in Zambia and Uganda
• MWEBE Henry
  The impact of privatisation on socio-economic rights and services in Africa: The case of water privatisation in South Africa
• MZIRAY Cheggy
  The right to peaceful assembly and demonstration in Tanzania: A comparative study with Ghana and South Africa
• NAMUSOBYA Salima
  Helpless within borders: The case for adequate international human rights protection for IDPs in Northern Uganda and the Darfur region of Sudan
• OYERO Rofiah
  An appraisal of the right to dignity of prisoners and detainees with disabilities: A case study of Ghana and Nigeria
• SACCO Solomon
  A comparative study of the implementation in Zimbabwe and South Africa of the international law rules that allow compulsory licensing and parallel importation for HIV/AIDS drugs
• SHADO Folusho
  The torn veil: Access to information as a tool for combating corruption with reference to Uganda
• SOME Kounkine
  Governance assessment, a tool for human rights promotion: A critical look at the African Peer Review Mechanism
• WARIS Attiya
  The freedom of the right to religion of minorities: A comparative case study between Kenya and Egypt
• YAV KATSHUNG Joseph
  Prosecution of grave violations of human rights in light of challenges of national courts and the International Criminal Court: The Congolese dilemma
• YESHANEW Sisay
  Towards effective human rights education in Africa

Class of 2003 - Topics

• AMPONSAH-FRIMPONG Samuel
  Truth commissions and the perpetuation of the culture of impunity in Africa: A case study of Ghana and South Africa
• ANKUT Priscilla
  Balancing parental responsibility and state obligation in fulfilling the socio-economic rights of children under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
• AYINLA Abiola
  The African Union (AU) human rights agenda: The panacea to the problem of non-compliance with human rights norms in Africa
• BULTO Takele
  The efficacy of the state reporting procedure under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• CHOFOR CHE
  Christian Educational opportunities for the girl child in Africa: A necessary revisit of the discrimination factor with reference to Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon
• DERSSO Solomon
  Institutionalising the right to self determination as a human right solution to the problems of ethnic conflict in Africa: The case of Ethiopia and South Africa
• DUMBUYA Lansana
  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post conflict Sierra Leone
• EJAMI Amani
  The role of human rights non-governmental organizations in the Africa Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development
• GETACHEW Tarikua
  Implementation of the right to food and the poverty reduction papers in perspective: The Ethiopian and the South Africa examples
• KAGUONGO Warugurul
  Prisoners’ rights: The role of national human rights institutions in Africa
• KAMASHAZI Donnah
  Dealing with rape as a human rights violation under Gacaca justice system
• KARUGONJO Rose
  An analysis of capital punishment in Uganda in light of international standards and comparable case law
• LETSEBE Piet
  Providing for the independence of the judiciary in Africa: A quest for the protection of human rights
• LIMANN Leda
  Widowhood rites and the rights of women in Africa: the Ugandan experience
• LUSWATA-KAWUMA Eva
  Reinvigorating women’s rights in Africa: The case for the special rapporteur and additional protocol
• MACHAWIRA Terence
  The conduct of periodic elections in SADC: An epitome for democracy or a misnomer?
• MAKANJE Revai
  Human rights monitoring in Africa: The African peer review and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• MATLAWE Isaac
  The impact of culture on the right of women to participate in public affairs: A comparative analysis of Swazi and Buganda Kingdoms
• MBAZIRA Christopher
  The enforcement of socio-economic rights in the African human rights system: Drawing inspiration from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and South Africa’s evolving jurisprudence
• MMUSINYANE Boitumelo
  Africa’s environmental protection challenge: Social responsibility and liability of non-state actors
• OLUGBUO Benson
  Implementing the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court domestically: A comparative analysis of strategies in Africa
• OTHMAN Nimatalie
  The African Union and the right to peace and security
• RAMAROSON Mianko
  The human right of HIV positive persons to non-discrimination in getting life insurance in South Africa
• RUBANGO KAYIHURA Epimaque
  The principle of universal jurisdiction as a tool of international criminal justice: Challenges for Africa
• SNYMAN Gina
  Balancing the need to eradicate terrorism while safeguarding human rights: An assessment of the protection of human rights under measures adopted to combat terrorism
• TAMUFOR Lindlyn
  Ensuring an effective compensation system for human rights violations by transnational corporations: A case study of apartheid South Africa
• WACHIRA George
  Refugee status determination in Kenya and Egypt
• WENDIMGEZAHU Debebe
  Prosecution of genocide at international and national courts

Class of 2002 - Topics

• ASSEFA Simeneh
  The relationship between international human rights law and international human rights before the international tribunals
• AULLO Julie
  The African Union and conflict management
• BELLO Adeola
  The complementarity between the African Commission and the African Court
• BIRHANU Fikremarkos
  Balancing the right of the accused with measures for protection of victims and witnesses in the international criminal tribunals: The case of the International Tribunal for Rwanda
• BOJOSI Kealeboga
  A critical analysis of the death row phenomenon
• BUADI George
  The legislature and good governance from a human rights perspective: A comparative study of Ghana and South Africa
• CHABANE Paile
  Exploring the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to guarantee rights protected under Article 3 of the African Charter
• CHENWI Lilian
  National human rights institutions: Comparative study of the national commissions of human rights in Cameroon and South Africa
• CHRISTMAS Annette
  The legacy of AIDS: Mother Africa’s orphans: An analysis of the extent to which the South African and Ugandan governments have fulfilled their legal, socio-economic obligations to AIDS orphans
• GADENYA Paul
  Realising the right to an adequate standard of living through the New Partnership for Africa’s Development
• HLATSHWAYO Sizakele
  The impact of the cultural practices on the advancement of women in Africa: A study of Swaziland and South Africa
• HOUNGBEDJI Bienvenu
  Cooperation of African states with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
• IRURA Rachel
  Trafficking of women and children in West Africa: Ghana, a case study
• KAIME Thokozani
  The protection of children from child labour within SADC: Human rights challenges of the regional integration initiative
• KATUSHABE Justin
  Justice, truth and reconciliation under Rwandan domestic courts: Specific reference to the traditional Gacaca courts
• KIFLE Daniel
  The international criminal court and the national courts: The principle of complementarity
• MADLINGOZI Tshepo
  Moving away from the exclusive reliance on the human rights discourse: Towards sustainable and consolidated democracy in Africa
• MASARAKUFA Yvonne
  Discrimination against women in traditional land tenure system – case study of Zimbabwe and Ghana
• MATAKALA Lungowe
  Widows in Africa at the crossroads of customary inheritance law and human rights in Africa: The case of Cameroonian and Zambian women
• MAZHUDE Martha
  Reconciling domestic labour practices with international standards: A critical look at child labour practices in Zimbabwe and Ghana
• MOHAMED Sanaty
  Le droit a la vie dans les pays Musulmans d’Afrique
• MOOKI Mmatsie
  A critical evaluation of the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women
• MUGAMBE Lydia
  The exceptions to patent rights under the WTO-TRIPs agreement: Where is the right to health guaranteed?
• MULUGETA Allehone
  Emerging rights language and community knowledge discourse in Africa’s biodiversity protection regime: A case study
• MWAISONDOLA George
  The jurisprudential contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to the development of international humanitarian and human rights law
• NYAKI Gloria
  Response mechanisms to the sexual violence in refugee camps: Case study of Kibondo Refugee Camps, Tanzania
• ODONGO Godfrey
  Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: A case study of transnational corporations in the African context
• SHUMBA Gabriel
  International standards and the 2000/2 elections in Zimbabwe and Ghana: A critique
• STEYN Magrietha
  The African Charter: Rights, obligations and responsibilities in the context of HIV/AIDS
• STONE Lee
  The cultural relativism/universalism debate revisited: Female genital mutilation in Africa

Class of 2001 - Topics

• ABDELGADIR Ehsan
  Gender violence in conflict situations: The case of abductions of women and children in Sudan
• AMARAL Leopoldo
  Access to the Africa Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Comparative analysis with the Inter-American and European human rights systems
• BAMPOE-ADDO Nana
  Strengthening women’s legislative participation in a democratic Africa: A comparative analysis of implementation of international and regional norms on political rights of women by Ghana and South Africa
• BRIJLALL Aarti
  Humanitarian intervention under the auspices of the African Union: A solution to the human rights violations in Africa?
• CHINAMASA Manfred
  The Human right to land in Zimbabwe: The legal and extra-legal resettlement processes
• CHIRWA  Danwood
  A critical analysis of penalties of the international criminal justice system: A case study of ICTY and the ICTR
• DANIEL Kobina
  Amnesty as a tool of transitional justice: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in profile
• DAUSAB Yvonne
  Rape and related sexual offences in conflict situations: An examination of existing protection mechanisms at the international level: An African perspective
• DOCTOR  Mashabane
  Addressing historic and past injustices and imbalances in land ownership in South Africa: An evaluation of the restitution of land rights process
• GUMEDZE Sabelo
  The relationship between the African Court and the African Commission
• INGANGE-WA-INGANGE Jean Desire
  Comparative study of common thematic special rapporteurs of the UN Commission on Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• JOHN Christina
  Transitional justice in the DRC: Dealing with gross human rights violations committed during the conflict
• LOUW Lirette
  Hate speech in Africa: Formulating an appropriate legal response for a racially and ethnically divided continent with special reference to South Africa and Rwanda
• MAZENGERA Shenard
  Making human rights of the poor people practical in Malawi through a rights based approach to development
• MTULYA Fahamu
  Human rights and investment in Tanzania: The case study of land rights
• MUGISHA Robert
  The legal response to the 1994 Rwanda genocide: A critical analysis of international and national responses
• MUSUNGU Fredrick
  The right to health in the global economy: Reading human rights obligations in the patent regime of the WTO-TRIPs agreement
• NGONJI Eric
  The possible impact of the International Criminal Court on human rights in Africa
• OLENASHA William
  The enforcement of environmental rights: A case study of the new South African constitutional dispensation
• OLOWU  Oladejo
  Socio-economic rights in Africa: A critical evaluation of legal protection mechanisms and implementation strategies
• OSEGA  Julius
  Transitional justice in Rwanda – A case study of fair trial process
• PHIRI  Ngaitila
  The contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to the development and enforcement of international humanitarian law in Africa
• SAMBA Miatta
  The proposed Special Court for Sierra Leone and human rights: A comparison with other ad hoc tribunals
• SIDALI Ahmed
  Globalisation and peoples’ right to self-determination: Case study of Western Sahara
• SSERWANGA Sam
  The right to vote and its implementation in Uganda
• TIBA Firew
  Protection of human rights under Ethiopian federalism and the challenges of legal pluralism
• WOLDEYOHANNES Adiam
  Female genital mutilation in Eritrea: How best can it be eradicated?
• YILLAH Ibrahim
  Towards a human rights approach to refugee protection in Africa

Class of 2000 (The Pioneers) - Topics

• ABDALLAH Amir
  An analysis of the individual communications mandate of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• ABERRA Rakeb
  Modern enslavement of women: Legal redress for trafficking in domestic workers in Africa
• BAIDEN Ekow
  Litigating socio-economic rights in Ghana
• BAIMU Evarist
  The challenges of implementing the right to education of children with disabilities in Africa: The case study of South Africa
• CHARM Abdullai
  The importance of the domestic protection and promotion of human rights: An examination of the Uganda judiciary and Human Rights Commission since 1995
• DIHEMO Nono
  A critical analysis of state reporting under the ACHPR
• DUKHI Aruna
  The impact of HIV/AIDS on the rights of AIDS orphans in South Africa – A human rights perspective
• EL MOBASHER Tahani
  The Advisory Council for Human Rights as a tool for promoting and protecting human rights in Sudan
• GAPARAYI Idi
  Justice and social reconstruction in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda: An evaluation of the possible role of the Gacaca tribunals
• GIRMACHEW Nega
  Using international human rights commissions in augmenting the international and regional mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights
• KAFUMBA Stephen
  A study of the application of the doctrine of margin of appreciation in the African human rights system
• KAFUMBE Anthony
  Property rights of customary law wives in domestic relations: A study of the Fanti (Ghana) and Baganda (Uganda)
• KANZIRA Helen
  The independence of national human rights commissions in Africa: A comparative study of the CHRAJ, UHRC and SAHRC
• KARANI Sheila
  Towards strengthening the regional protection of women’s rights in Africa: An analysis of the proposed “Draft Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa” and the “Draft OAU Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Harmful Practices Affecting the Fundamental Human Rights of Women and Girls”
• KINDIKI Kithure
  Humanitarian intervention: An investigation of its legality and application to internal conflicts in Africa
• MASOPERH Abla
  International justice for African women caught in armed conflict: The case study of the ICTR and the promise of the ICC
• MATSHEKGA James
  The independence of national human rights institutions: A comparative study of the Ugandan and South African human rights commissions
• MUKAMUGEMA Florence
  The role of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in prosecuting crimes of sexual violence committed against Rwandese women in the 1994 Rwanda genocide
• MWALIMU  Ummy
  The socio-economic rights of refugees in Africa: Special focus on children
• NDHLOVU Hope
  The judiciary in the promotion and protection of human rights: A look at the Zambian and Ugandan experiences
• NKWA Jean Pierre
  Corruption and its effects on human rights in Africa
• NOUKPO Sena
  Investigating the independence of national human rights institutions in Africa: Case study of Benin and South Africa
• NSIBIRWA Martin
  Realising the right of children in South Africa to be protected against exploitative child labour
• TSHIVHASE Enos
  The impact of import liberalization on the fundamental human right to work: A case study of textiles, clothing and motor vehicle sub-sectors of the manufacturing sector in South Africa and Ghana
• VAN DER LINDE Morne
  Holistic Overview: Enhancing international election observations in Africa