“In this book, Oloka-Onyango deals with what can meaningfully be defined as the politicization of human rights at various levels, namely, the international, the regional and the domestic. Who is key in fostering human rights transformation, the peoples affected or outsiders? The essays demonstrate that it is not only individual persons who can be oppressed but also Nation States and even regional bodies, depending on where they are placed within the international geo-political order. Although the issues handled in each essay are different, they are all bound by the same critical question: are human rights concepts universally understood and applied?”
