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In a strategic review of AFLA, this is what the external facilitator had to say about AFLA's Publications: An important and critical medium for AFLA's work has been its publications. Particularly significant in this regard has been the AFLA Quarterly, the flagship of the organization. The AFLA Quarterly is now considered by many academics and human rights advocates in Africa and abroad to be an important source of information for human rights and legal developments relating to Africa. It is shaping the way academics and advocates think about complex human rights questions. It graces many a shelf around the world and is boldly expanding and revolutionizing the way both Africans and non-Africans think about African Human Rights issues.

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AFLA has published more than 40 editions of its flagship journal, the Africa Legal Aid Quarterly, and three volumes of its Book Series. The most recent of AFLA’s books, African Perspectives on International Criminal Justice has a Preface by H.E. Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. AFLA’s publications address emergent and undertreated subjects and significantly contribute to AFLA’s education of civil society groups, NGOs, judges, legal academics and government officials.

Through implementation of its multiple tasks and activities, AFLA has over the years created an extensive network of leading experts, judges, academics, human rights advocates and policy makers. Most of these individuals have become loyal supporters of AFLA and its activities.

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The work of AFLA is in many ways unique in international human rights work. The world of international non-governmental human rights organizations (INGOs) has not been a Third World or African space. Virtually all INGOs- by their history, nature, mandate, and politics- are based in the Western world, often defining human rights from a narrow perspective, consistent with the evolution of rights discourse in the West. These are significant facts because INGOs determine the nature, scope, priority and trajectory of the human rights movement.

AFLA departs from this INGO model in important and fundamental respects. Firstly, AFLA is the first INGO of its kind founded by an African. Secondly, it is significant to mention that AFLA was founded by a woman. Thirdly, it is historically important to mention that AFLA is an INGO that exclusively and directly concentrates its core activities on legal problems and questions in Africa. In this respect, AFLA occupies an exclusive niche in the world of INGOs: it is an African organization that is driven from within by the needs and the problems of the African continent.

AFLA’s mandate and work have addressed both underdeveloped areas of human rights (such as economic, social and cultural rights, women’s rights and the work of the African regional human rights system) as well as emerging human rights issues of crucial relevance to Africa, including international criminal justice.