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The African Charter is a human rights document made up of 68 articles carved up into four sections—Human and Peoples' Rights; Duties; Procedure of the Commission; and Applicable Principles. It merges the three clusters of rights, namely, civil and political rights, economic, social, and cultural rights, and group and peoples' rights.
The civil and political rights recognized in the Charter include the right to freedom from discrimination (Article 2 and 18(3)), equality (Article 3), life and personal integrity (Article 4), dignity (Article 5), freedom from slavery (Article 5), freedom from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 5), rights to due process ...
With a prediction of 85.7 million climate migrants in sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, Africa faces one of the worst refugee crisis of the generation. [23] When entire communities are forced to move during climate change migration there is a lack of access to lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services and programs. [ 24 ]
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is a quasi-judicial body tasked with promoting and protecting human rights and collective (peoples') rights throughout the African continent as well as interpreting the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter or the African Charter) and considering individual complaints of violations of the Charter.
In South Africa, the day has been commemorated on 21 March each year as a public holiday called Human Rights Day since 1994, [3] when Nelson Mandela was elected president of a new democratic South Africa. [4]
The African Court of Justice and Human Rights ultimately reviews cases of war crimes, trafficking people and/or drugs, genocide, crimes against humanity, terrorism, and piracy. [1] The Court is essentially divided into two different sections: the Human Rights section and the General affairs section. The judges are split up evenly between the two.
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights [40] (ACHPR) The ACHPR is specifically mandated under the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to protect and promote human and peoples’ rights on the continent especially on request by a state party, organs of the AU or individuals. The ACHPR has adopted various ...
Following on from recognition that women's rights were often marginalised in the context of human rights, a meeting organised by Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) in March 1995, in Lomé, Togo, called for the development of a specific protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights to address the rights of women.