Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1998/2004)
- Date added
- Oct 18, 2017
Instruments
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1998/2004)
- Date added
- Oct 18, 2017
Instruments
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990/1999)
- Date added
- Oct 18, 2017
Instruments
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa(2003/2005)
- Date added
- Oct 18, 2017
Instruments
Drawing inspiration from other international law on human and peoples rights
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Interpretation
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 12, 2017
Commentary
Serious or massive violation
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Serious or massive violation
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Right to property - article 14
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Right to property - article 14
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Right to dispose wealth and natural resources - article 21
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Right to dispose wealth and natural resources - article 21
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Right to development - article 22
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Right to development - article 22
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Right to culture - article 17(2) (3)
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Right to culture - article 17(2) & (3)
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Personal jurisdiction - Complaints submitted by the African Commission
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Personal jurisdiction - Complaints submitted by the African Commission
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Indigenous Peoples
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Indigenous Peoples
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Freedom of conscience and religion - article 8
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Freedom of conscience and religion - article 8
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Case pending before the African Commission
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Case pending before the African Commission
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
001/2012 Request for advisory opinion by Socio-Economic Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 001/2012__(2)
- Decision dates
- 2012
- Case type
- Order
- Date added
- Aug 31, 2017
Advisory opinions
Tanganyika Law Society & The Legal and Human Rights Centre, and Rev. Christopher R. Mtikila v. The United Republic of Tanzania (Separate Opinion Of Vice-President Fatsah Ouguergouz)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 009/2011
- Case type
- Separate opinion
- Decision date
- Jun 14, 2013
- Country
- Tanzania
- Date added
- Aug 31, 2017
Contentious cases
006/2012 African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v the Republic of Kenya
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 006/2012
- Case type
- Judgment
- Decision date
- May 26, 2017
- Country
- Kenya
- Date added
- Aug 30, 2017
Contentious cases
001/2013 Request for advisory opinion by the Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 001/2013
- Decision dates
- 2017
- Case type
- Advisory opinion
- Date added
- Aug 30, 2017
Advisory opinions
Material jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Material jurisdiction
- Date modified
- Aug 30, 2017
- Date added
- Aug 28, 2017
Commentary
Equality or non discrimination – article 2
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Equality / non-discrimination - article 2
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- Aug 28, 2017
Commentary
003 2014 Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza v Republic of Rwanda - (Ruling on Jurisdiction)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 003/2014
- Case type
- Ruling
- Decision date
- Sep 6, 2016
- Country
- Rwanda
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2017
Contentious cases
Victims
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Victims
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Precision of reparations
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Precision of reparations
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Guarantee of non-repetition
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Guarantee of non-repetition
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Satisfaction/publication of the Court’s decision
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Satisfaction/publication of the Court’s decision
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Setting aside fines
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Setting aside fines
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Release from prison
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Release from prison
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Compensation for moral damage
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Compensation for material damage
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Compensation for material damage
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Compensation for material damage
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Obligation to establish an independent and impartial electoral body
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Obligation to establish an independent and impartial electoral body
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Right to be presumed innocent
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Fair trial /right to have one’s cause heard - article 7
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Right to a defence
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Fair trial /right to have one’s cause heard - article 7
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Conflict of interest of prosecutor
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Fair trial /right to have one’s cause heard - article 7
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Right to legal aid
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Fair trial /right to have one’s cause heard - article 7
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Right to be tried within a reasonable time
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Fair trial /right to have one’s cause heard - article 7
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Arbitrary detention – article 6
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Arbitrary detention - article 6
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Equal protection
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Equality before the law / equal protection of the law - article 3
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Legal effects of withdrawal
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Withdrawal of article 34(6) declaration
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 12, 2017
Commentary
Applicability of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties to withdrawal of declaration
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Withdrawal of article 34(6) declaration
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 11, 2017
Commentary
Validity of withdrawal
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Withdrawal of article 34(6) declaration
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 11, 2017
Commentary
Default judgement
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 11, 2017
Commentary
Burden of Proof
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Burden of proof
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 11, 2017
Commentary
Review applications
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Review applications
- Date added
- May 11, 2017
Commentary
Provisional measaures
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Provisional measures
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 11, 2017
Commentary
001/2014 Actions Pour la Protection des Droit de L'homme (APDH) v The republic of Cote D'Ivoire (Judgement)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 001/2014
- Case type
- Judgment
- Decision date
- Nov 18, 2016
- Country
- Gabon
- Date added
- May 10, 2017
Contentious cases
002/2011 Soufiane Ababou v Algeria (decision)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 002/2011
- Case type
- Decision
- Decision date
- Jun 16, 2011
- Country
- Algeria
- Date added
- May 9, 2017
Contentious cases
Unreasonable delay in filing the applications – article 56(6)
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Admissibility
- Admissibility
- Unreasonable delay in filing the applications – article 56(6)
- Date added
- May 9, 2017
Commentary
Exhaustion of local remedies – article 56(5)
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Admissibility
- Admissibility
- Exhaustion of local remedies – article 56(5)
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 9, 2017
Commentary
Disparaging and insulting language – article 56(3)
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Admissibility
- Admissibility
- Disparaging and insulting language – article 56(3)
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 9, 2017
Commentary
Compatibility with the African Charter – article 56(2)
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Admissibility
- Admissibility
- Compatibility with the African Charter – article 56(2)
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 9, 2017
Commentary
Meaning of human rights instruments
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Meaning of human rights instruments
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 5, 2017
Commentary
Jurisdiction to deal with a withdrawal of the article 34(6) declaration
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction to deal with a withdrawal of the article 34(6) declaration
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 5, 2017
Commentary
Complaints submitted by NGOs
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Personal jurisdiction - Complaints submitted by NGOs
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 5, 2017
Commentary
Territorial Jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Territorial jurisdiction
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 4, 2017
Commentary
The Court has no appellate jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 4, 2017
Commentary
No need to specify Charter Provisions alleged to have been violated
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 4, 2017
Commentary
The Court determines its own jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
- Date added
- May 4, 2017
Commentary