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Human
Rights Book Excerpt This a
pioneering work of its kind on Human Rights and Social
Justice in Africa from ethical, cultural and spiritual
perspectives.
The research and documentation of
this seminal publication took place under the auspices
of the All Africa Conference of Churches and the World
Council of Churches ecumenical accompanier for Africa
with the facilitation of the Norwegian Church Aid.
Several consultations among theologians from a broad
spectrum of faith tradition in the continent gave their
critique of the original manuscript. Hence the following
is an abridged version accessible on a PDF format, how
ever the full text is about 240 pages with detailed
citations and Bibliography.
The Churches in
Africa and theologians in particular have always been
engaged on issues of human rights in the continent long
before advocacy NGOs came into the scene. There are a
myriad of advocacy programs being implemented by various
National Council of Churches, Regional Ecumenical
Fellowships, Episcopal Conferences, African Instituted
Churches towards the wellbeing of an informed, educated
and responsible citizenry.
In this publication
we endeavor to awaken in the hearts of our theologians,
legal experts and the laity a coherent vision and a new
ethic that transforms the secular order of things with
spiritual and moral values. The discourse on human
rights is too important to be isolated in the domain and
rubric of legal regimes
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