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    Lessons from implementing the APRM National Programme of Action in Nigeria

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The way in which the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has unfolded in Nigeria – a key regional player with Africa’s largest population – offers lessons and guidance to other participating APRM countries.
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    Lesotho effective delivery of public education services

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Lesotho, like many other countries, is party to a number of regional and international treaties that oblige governments to put in place processes and institutions that will improve delivery of education. Civil society organisations can play a constructive role by monitoring the extent to which government is in compliance and offers policy options that aim to improve the situation.
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    Swaziland justice sector and the rule of law

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Under the 2005 Constitution, the law of Swaziland consists of acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation, Roman-Dutch common law, Swazi law and custom, judicial precedents, and, to some extent, public international law. The Constitution is the supreme law to which all other law must defer.
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    Swaziland democracy and political participation

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Two schools of thought exist in Swaziland’s pro-democracy movement regarding the Constitution. One asserts that the illegitimacy of the Constitution, based on the unacceptable nature of the constitution-making process, is such that it should be completely rejected.
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    Zambia justice sector and the rule of law: discussion paper

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Zambia has a two-tier dualistic legal system in which international law is seen separate from domestic law. At domestic level, the statutory law or general law system is conceptually superior to and separate from the parallel traditional customary law system. Zambia has ratified all seven key international human rights instruments.
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    Zambia justice sector and the rule of law

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Zambia has a two-tier dualistic legal system in which international law is seen separate from domestic law. At domestic level, the statutory law or general law system is conceptually superior to and separate from the parallel traditional customary law system. Zambia has ratified all seven key international human rights instruments.
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    Myths and mining: the reality of resource governance in Africa

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2014
    In Africa, mining activities are undertaken by private foreign entities, which pay taxes to the state. However, mining activities are not contributing as much as they should to national economies. Despite the increase in productivity and profits, the real benefits of mining have yet to be felt by the majority of the people, especially mining communities.
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    Building constituency for the realisation of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV)

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2014
    Conference proceedings from two day constituency building workshop organised in Johannesburg, 2-3 May 2014 by Third World Network-Africa and OSISA/SARW, attended by trade unionists, CSO activists and journalists from Southern Africa.
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    Global and regional mechanisms for governing the resource curse in Africa

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2014
    International norms around natural resource governance have proliferated inthe face of civil wars and feeble state institutions in Africa. These norms have been captured in institutions such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Publish What You Pay, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), and the African Mining Vision (AMV).
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    Changes of the EU's iInternational status and influence

    China Institute of International Studies, 2014
    At the time when the euro area suffers from the debt crisis and the European economy has been sluggish for years, a question has attracted people’s attention – will the European Union (EU) weather the crisis and get even stronger afterwards or decline to be a secondary power in the world?

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