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SUBSTANCE Guarantee respect for human rights – article 1 Legislative measures In Zongo the Court observed that the state had adopted a number of legal measures to guarantee the right to have one’s cause heard by an independent and impartial judge and that there was no violation of article 1 of the Charter for lack of adoption of legislative measures (Beneficiaries of late Norbert Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiema alias Ablasse, Ernest Zongo and Blaise Ilboudo & The Burkinabe human and peoples’ rights movement v Burkina Faso, application 013/2011, judgment, 28 March 2014, para 197).

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Substance: Guarantee respect for human rights - article 1

Commentary: In Zongo the Court observed that the state had adopted a number of legal measures to guarantee the right to have one’s cause heard by an independent and impartial judge and that there was no violation of article 1 of the Charter for lack of adoption of legislative measures (Beneficiaries of late Norbert Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiema alias Ablasse, Ernest Zongo and Blaise Ilboudo & The Burkinabe human and peoples’ rights movement v Burkina Faso, application 013/2011, judgment, 28 March 2014, para 197).

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013/2011 Beneficiaries of late Norbert Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiema alias Ablasse, Ernest Zongo and Blaise Ilboudo & The Burkinabe human and peoples’ rights movement v Burkina Faso - (Judgment)

013/2011 Beneficiaries of late Norbert Zongo, Abdoulaye Nikiema alias Ablasse, Ernest Zongo and Blaise Ilboudo & The Burkinabe human and peoples’ rights movement v Burkina Faso - (Judgment)