West Africa: Human Rights Abuses in Unstable Stables

Particular types of security challenges faced by states create specific opportunities for abusing the rights of citizens before the final slide into conflict, argues a paper from African Security Dialogue & Research, based in Accra, Ghana. The paper, Human Rights Abuses in Unstable States, argues that it is critical that the abuse of human rights should be contextualised in different ways to capture the different functions that such abuses play in conflict and post-conflict transitional situations.