This study examines the African Human Rights Action Plan (AHRAP) through the lens of Upendra Baxi's germinal theory on the emergence in our time of a ‘trade-related, market-friendly human rights’ (TREMF) thesis that is challenging the specific understandings of ‘people-centric’ human rights that are predicated in the letter and spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDH). Baxi contends, instead, that the dominant strands of the contemporary understandings of human rights are – for the most part – designed to protect the interests of global capital. That said, human rights frameworks in low-income countries need to be studied with a view to what they say and don't say about global capital. Despite its attempt to facilitate a progressive realisation of human rights in Africa, the AHRAP does not rise far enough above the TREMF paradigm to re-locate itself within the UDH one. This is due to the AHRAP not adequately theorising and analysing the role of capital in the (non)realisation of human rights in Africa. By allowing trade and market practices to slip to a significant extent beyond its purview, the AHRAP privileges – to a significant degree – the needs/interests of capital over the human rights of ordinary Africans. That is, the victims of the excesses of capital in Africa are reincarnated in the AHRAP document by the fact of their exclusion from it.

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通过缺席在场？了解资本在非洲人权行动计划中的作用

本研究通过 Upendra Baxi 关于我们时代出现的“与贸易相关的、有利于市场的人权”(TREMF) 论点的出现对非洲人权行动计划 (AHRAP) 的具体理解提出了挑战，从而检验了非洲人权行动计划 (AHRAP)。以《世界人权宣言》（UDH）的文字和精神为基础的“以人为本”的人权。相反，巴西认为，当代对人权的理解的主要部分——在很大程度上——旨在保护全球资本的利益。也就是说，需要研究低收入国家的人权框架，以了解他们对全球资本的看法。尽管它试图促进在非洲逐步实现人权，AHRAP 没有远远超出 TREMF 范式，无法在 UDH 范式中重新定位。这是由于 AHRAP 没有充分理论化和分析资本在非洲（非）实现人权中的作用。通过允许贸易和市场实践在很大程度上超出其职权范围，AHRAP 在很大程度上特权——在很大程度上——资本的需求/利益凌驾于普通非洲人的人权之上。也就是说，非洲资本过剩的受害者由于被排除在 AHRAP 文件中的事实而在 AHRAP 文件中转世。通过允许贸易和市场实践在很大程度上超出其职权范围，AHRAP 在很大程度上特权——在很大程度上——资本的需求/利益凌驾于普通非洲人的人权之上。也就是说，非洲资本过剩的受害者由于被排除在 AHRAP 文件中的事实而在 AHRAP 文件中转世。通过允许贸易和市场实践在很大程度上超出其职权范围，AHRAP 在很大程度上特权——在很大程度上——资本的需求/利益凌驾于普通非洲人的人权之上。也就是说，非洲资本过剩的受害者由于被排除在 AHRAP 文件中的事实而在 AHRAP 文件中转世。