This page provides links to a wide variety of sites and documents relevant to these themes. Go to the quick-start for exploring resources on the web, look at the documents selected for distribution in 1999 and 1998 by the Africa Policy Information Center, or review the background papers and draft plans of action being debated in the U.S. National Summit on Africa process.
Quick-Start for Exploring Web Resources | Documents distributed in 1999
Democracy and Human Rights is one of the themes being debated in the National Summit on Africa
(www.africasummit.org) process. Regional Summits were
held in Atlanta (May, 1998) and Chicago (September, 1998). Regional Summits are scheduled for San
Francisco (June 4-5, 1999), Baltimore (September 10-11, 1999) and Denver (September 24-25, 1999).
The National Summit will take place in Washington, DC on February 17-20, 2000.
Background material on the theme provided by the summit secretariat and available in HTML format includes:
Summit working papers were prepared by groups of experts as background, in 1998. The Democracy and Human Rights Expert Group consisted on Dr. Francis Deng (Brookings Institutition), Dr. John Entelis (Fordham University), Dr. Edmond Keller (UCLA), Dr. Achola Pala-Okeyo (UN Development Fund for Women) and Dr. Peter Takirambudde (HRW/Africa). Dr. Keller was the chairperson and Dr. Entelis the writer for the group. Synopses of the working papers and draft plans of action were prepared by the summit secretariat.
The draft plans of action are being considered, amended, and voted on by participants at each of the regional summits and at the national summit. (Note: The full plan of action from Atlanta and the rules for deliberate process are available on the summit web site, but only in Adobe Acrobat format.) |
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Quick-Start for Exploring Web Resources: Democracy and Human Rights in Africa
These "quick-start" links include key web sites and pages
we have found to be generally helpful in searching for web resources on democracy
and human rights in Africa. They do not include sites focusing on only one country or region.
For links to country-specific sites, see the regional pages elsewhere on this site:
For more comprehensive listings on these themes, see the "meta-sites" section below.
If you wish to suggest a link for inclusion in this listing of key links, please send a message to
links@africapolicy.org.
Governments, Elections and Participation
African Charter for Popular Participation
http://www.africapolicy.org/african-initiatives/chartall.htm
Human Rights
African Rights:
http://www.unimondo.org/AfricanRights Meta-Sites
Human Rights (Stanford):
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/hurights.html
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Africa Policy Electronic Distribution List in 1999, on themes of Democracy and Human Rights. Documents highlighted in red are original documents produced by APIC. Other documents are reposted from other original sources.
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