African commission and court on human rights

African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights - Amnesty International

While the African Commission has an elaborate promotional mandate under the. African Charter, it does not possess sufficient protective powers.

Litigating at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

Its mandate is to adjudicate matters dealing with states' compliance with the African Charter and other instruments on the protection of human rights ratified ...

African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights - AfricanLII

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights is the judicial arm of the African Union and one of the three regional human rights courts.

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights - Law.Cornell.Edu

The DRC brought the complaint asserting, among other things, that the mass rape and deliberate infection of women and girls with HIV constituted a violation of ...

THE AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS

The Court's mandate is to judge the compliance by a State Party with rights included in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other instruments ...

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

By submitting a communication to the African Commission, victims of human rights abuses who for one reason or another could not obtain justice in their ...

Towards a Positive Application of Complementarity in the African ...

In Article 2 relating to the relationship between the African Human Rights Court and the African Commission, it is emphasized that the Court shall 'complement ...

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights is a quasi-judicial body,established by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and People's Rights, June 9, 1998, OAU Doc. OAU/ ...

Public International Law Research: African Court on Human and ...

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Right ("ACHPR") came into force on January 25, 2004 and was established via Article I of the Protocol to ...

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the ...

communication inadmissible on account of lack of exhaustion of local remedies. On the other hand, where there are cases pending before the domestic courts, such ...

The African Commission and Human Rights Courts - Oxford Academic

Chapter 7 focuses on how AU judicial organs with human rights mandates have engaged with refugee issues. Four institutions are addressed.

EU provides support to the African Commission on Human and ...

The Court will work to increase the number of ratifications of the Protocol on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the number ...

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

The African Commission deals with the right to fair trial within the context of interpreting the provisions of the African Charter, examining States' reports, ...

Abbreviations & Explanations - ICNL

The Court may receive cases filed by the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights, State parties to the Protocol or African Intergovernmental ...

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Human Rights ...

[1] The adoption by the African Commission of Resolution 332 on human rights in conflict situations has thus been a long time coming. As the study it requested ...

African Court on Human and Peoples' rights - CRIN

Applications can be submitted to the Court by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, by State Parties to the Protocol or by African ...

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights' order in respect of ...

The order was in response to an application filed before the Court by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (African Commission). The Commission ...

Outcomes of the 77th Ordinary Session of the African Commission ...

Dr Robert Eno, representing the President of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, reminded the participants that 'we all have a ...

Assessing the Role of the African Commission and Court on Human ...

The increasing contribution of both the Commission and the Court to the protection of human rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights is ...