On legalism, popular agency and "voices of suffering": The Nigerian national human rights commission in context

Human Rights Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 662-720

  Okafor, Obiora Chinedu ^a,b   Agbakwa, Shedrack C ^a,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; STANDARDS; UNITED NATIONS;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0036686582     PISSN: 02750392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2002.0038     Document Type: Article

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