THE FARMEWORK OF ECONOMIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER THE ECOWAS TREATY
THE FARMEWORK OF ECONOMIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER THE ECOWAS TREATY
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2004-10
Authors
ASO, LARRYS PETERS
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Abstract
The 1975 ECOWAS Treaty made by the founding fathers of the West African Regional
Integration Philosophy was revised in 1993 in view of the developments in the region
and the new world order. ECOWAS is still today, the common partnership through
which Member States attempts to aggregate their common dream and aspiration for a
prosperous United Economic Union in the Africa sub-region.
The Integration instruments though very ambitious made no pretension of the hopes and
aspiration it seeks to achieve in this globalize and competitive world. The carry over of
Colonialism and the epileptic nature of the African Economy tends to presents the
coming together of African Countries synonymous with coming together to share
poverty. The divide and rule strategy of the West has made African States to distrust
themselves that today, the Franco-phones speaking West African is suspicious of every
move of the Anglo phone on the Integration Ideology. Hence every state party does not
want to concede anything out of its sovereignty to the organization but wants to harvest
the whole benefit of integration.
This thesis attempts in the main, to bring to the fore both the Economic and Human
Rights frame work as enshrine in the ECOWAS Treaty and the journey so far and the
implementation of the acts and decisions of the community in Nigeria in particular. The
first chapter introduces the research work. The second chapter considers the meaning of
Treaty and Treaty as a source of international law. The third chapter of this thesis deals
with the meaning, nature and scope of Economic integration. The chapter also considers
economic integration under the ECOWAS Treaty. The forth chapter considers the
analysis of human right framework under the ECOWAS Treaty. The fifth and the
concluding chapter, summarizes the work and offers some far reaching recommendation
for policy makers and the operators of the ECOWAS Treaty.
This thesis presents to the reader a handy compendium of recent status and trends in the
West African Integration agenda through ECOWAS and the issues, challenges and
prospects of the Organization and the call for more commitments of State Parties to the
ECOWAS Programmes
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE
SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN
PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF LAWS DEGREE,
(LLM)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LAW
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
OCTOBER 2004
Keywords
FARMEWORK,, ECONOMIC,, HUMAN RIGHTS,, ECOWAS TREATY