[PDF] The Implementation Of The Findings Of The African Commission On Human And Peoples Rights eBook

Author : Rachel H. Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107054923

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By what process and mechanisms can the findings of the African Commission be implemented and that implementation monitored?

Author : Rachel Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192538586

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, there is now a significant body of jurisprudence and interpretation by its African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the recently established African Court. This volume provides a comprehensive article-by-article legal analysis of the provisions of the Charter as it draws upon the documents adopted by the African Commission, including resolutions, case law, and concluding observations. Where relevant, case law adopted by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, and that of other sub-regional courts and tribunals and domestic courts in Africa, are also incorporated. The book examines not only the substantive rights in the African Charter but also the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and provides a full examination of its mandate. A critical analysis of each of the provisions of the ACHPR is led principally by the jurisprudence and documentation of the African Commission and African Court. The text also identifies the overall development of the ACHPR within the broader regional and international human rights legal arena.

Author : Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004218149

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The African human rights system has undergone some remarkable developments since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, the cornerstone of the African human rights system, in June 1981. The year2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter. It also marked 25 years since the African Charter entered into force on 21 October 1986.This book aims to provide reflections on most of the major human rights issues in the past 30 years of the African human rights system in practice and discussion on the future: the African Charter s impact and contribution to the respect, protection and promotion of human rights in Africa; the contemporary challenges faced by the African Human rights system in responding adequately to the demands of rapidly evolving African societies; and how the African human rights system can be strengthened in the future to ensure that the human rights protected in the African Charter, as developed in the jurisprudence of the African Commission since the Commission was inaugurated in 1987, are realised in practice.The chapters in this volume bring together the work of 20 human rights scholars and practitioners, with expertise in human rights in Africa, under the following general themes: rights and duties in the African Charter; rights of the vulnerable under the African system; implementation mechanisms for human rights in Africa; and towards an effective African regional human rights system.

Author : Kwesi Nyarkoh Koomson
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3668299404

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Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, , language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, its core functiions, major achievements and failures. Since its inception in 1963, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) now African Union (AU) concentrated all its efforts on dismantling the relics of colonialism and fighting apartheid, consequently relegating the promotion and protection of individual as well as group rights to a secondary position and priority was instead given to the security and inviolability of states at the expense of individual liberty. The Continent was consequently not at the same wavelength in terms of Human Rights with the other continents, especially the west.

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Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN :

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A guide to the African human rights system: Celebrating 30 years since the entry into force of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 1986 - 2017 Edited by Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria 2017 ISBN: 978-1-920538-70-5 Pages: 80 Print version: Available Electronic version: Free PDF available About the publication A Guide to the African human rights system has been conceived as an accessible and informative introduction to the human rights system established under the auspices of the African Union (AU). This Guide provides an overview of developments related to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, its supervisory body, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as well as the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and its supervisory body, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. It is launched on 2 November 2017, commemorating the date, 30 years earlier, on which the African Commission was inaugurated. The Guide aims to both chart the most salient historical developments and provide an accessible introduction to the African human rights system, and is continuously revised. The Centre for Human Rights is both an academic department and a non-governmental organisation (NGO) accorded observer status with the African Commission. The Centre teaches academic programmes and engages in research, advocacy and training on human rights, with a specific focus on Africa. Its flagship programmes are the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa and the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. For more information on the Centre for Human Rights, visit www.chr.up.ac.za Table of Contents The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and further standards The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child List of abbreviations Bibliography

Author : African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2016
Category : African Charter on Human and People's Rights
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The jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has widely recognised the right to life as a foundational right. Without the right to life, other rights cannot be implemented. The Commission adopted General Comment No.3 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the right to life (Article 4) during its 57th Ordinary Session, held in Banjul, The Gambia, in November 2015. It is designed to guide the interpretation and application of the right to life under the Charter and to ensure its coherent application to a range of situations, including its implementation at the domestic level. The General Comment does not put in place new standards or highlight best practices but rather sets out the Commission's perspective on dimensions of this universally recognised right. The text is also available, in the four official languages of the African Union, on the African Commission's website: www.achpr.org.