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The African Union, since the adoption of its constitutive Act in July 2000 has concentrated on the rejection of unconstitutional changes of government its main concern. It has, in fact, established and directed the Counsel of Peace and the Security (CPS) to react anytime such changes can be produced among African countries. The target of the present article consists of evaluating the action of CPS towards the concrete actions in some African States in underlining the progress as well as the limits. Then we'll be able to formulate some suggestions in order to improve its action.
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This article deals with the potential of legal anthropology as a basis for human rights theory. The law's transition to post-modernism has created disenchantment with the State's role in the production and protection of human rights and growing doubts about the universality of human rights claims. Legal anthropology, which promotes a unified conception of law, consideration of empirical social evidence and the acceptance of the idea of legal pluralism, is well situated to contribute to the debate concerning human rights theory, by focusing on the cultural and social representations which constitute the latter's foundation.New directions in international law and increasing recognition of the rights of aboriginal peoples require a redefinition of the scope and contents of human rights. A new formulation of human rights theory would include a hard core of rights based on values present in all cultural traditions and social systems; it would also take into account the cultural and collective dimensions of human rights.