About the Journal
The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is also a source for country-based reports as well as commentaries on recent developments in the field of disability rights in the African region.
Published by: Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) is a publisher at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP endeavours to publish and make available innovative, high-quality scholarly texts on law in Africa. PULP also publishes a series of collections of legal documents related to public law in Africa, as well as text books from African countries other than South Africa. This book was peer reviewed prior to publication.
Current Issue
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023): African Disability Rights Yearbook
Full Issue
SECTION A: Articles
SECTION C: Regional Developments
Call for Papers: African Disability Rights Yearbook (ADRY 2020)
The African Disability Rights Yearbook (ADRY) is calling for papers for consideration for publication in Section A of the ADRY in 2020. The ADRY publishes once a year with a focus on disability rights issues and developments of contemporary concern to persons with disabilities on the African continent. It comprises three sections – Section A containing doctrinal articles and for which we are calling for papers; Section B containing country-focused overviews of developments in disability rights in selected African countries; and Section C containing brief overviews of developments at the African regional and sub-regional levels.
The ADRY is a peer-reviewed open-access journal. It was launched in 2013 and has been accredited by South African Department of Higher Education and Training. The ADRY can be accessed at www.adry.up.ac.za.
Articles for Section A of the ADRY - the subject of this Call - should be original and not under consideration for publication by another journal. An article should not exceed 10 000 words, including footnote references. When preparing articles for submission, contributors are advised to follow the guidelines which are available on the ADRY website under ‘Submissions’.
Manuscripts should be sent in electronic format to: charles.ngwena@up.ac.za AND nkatha.murungi@up.ac.za copying innocentia.mgijima@up.ac.za.
An acknowledgment will be returned upon receipt of the submission. The deadline for submitting manuscripts is 30 March 2020.
Inquiries relating to submissions can be sent to innocentia.mgijima@up.ac.za.
