Advisory opinions
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Advisory opinions
- Date modified
- Aug 23, 2017
Commentary
The Court determines its own jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 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
Commentary
The Court has no appellate jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
No rigid approach to determining whether jurisdiction or admissibility is first considered
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Only points raised are considered
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Jurisdiction and access are related
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Transfers to the Commission
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Contentious cases
- Date modified
- Aug 23, 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
Commentary
Material jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Material jurisdiction
- Date modified
- Aug 30, 2017
Commentary
Meaning of human rights instruments
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Meaning of human rights instruments
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Complaints submitted by individuals
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Personal jurisdiction - Complaints submitted by individuals
Commentary
Complaints submitted by NGOs
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Personal jurisdiction - Complaints submitted by NGOs
- Date modified
- 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
Commentary
AU bodies
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Personal jurisdiction – AU bodies
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Legal interest
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Personal jurisdiction – legal interest
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Serious or massive violation
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Serious or massive violation
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Temporal jurisdiction and continuing violation
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Temporal jurisdiction and continuing violation
- Date modified
- Aug 25, 2017
Commentary
Territorial Jurisdiction
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Territorial jurisdiction
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
016/2015 General Kayumba Nyamwasa and others v Republic of Rwanda
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 016/2015
- Case type
- Order on the request for interim measures
- Decision date
- Mar 24, 2017
- Country
- Rwanda
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
004/2011 African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Order of provisional measures
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 004/2011
- Case type
- Order of provisional measures
- Decision date
- Mar 25, 2011
- Country
- Libya
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
Political participation – article 13
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Political paticipation - article 13
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
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)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 013/2011
- Case type
- Judgment
- Decision date
- Mar 28, 2014
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
010/2011 Efoua Mbozo’o Samuel v The Pan African Parliament (Separate Opinion Fatsah Ouguergouz)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 010/2011
- Case type
- Separate opinion
- Decision date
- Sep 30, 2011
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
002/2013 Request for advisory opinion by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 002/2013
- Decision dates
- 2013
- Case type
- Advisory opinion
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Advisory opinions
009/2011 & 011/2011 Tanganyika Law Society, The Legal and Human Rights Centre v The United Republic of Tanzania and Reverend Christopher R. Mtikila v The United Republic of Tanzania
- Application nr
- 009/2011 & 011/2011
- Case type
- Judgment
- Decision date
- Jun 14, 2013
- Country
- Tanzania
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
Repeal of legislation
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Repeal of legislation
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
019/2015 Femi Falana v African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 019/2015
- Case type
- Order
- Decision date
- Nov 20, 2015
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
001/2008 Michelot Yogogombaye v Senegal
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 001/2008
- Case type
- Judgment
- Decision date
- Dec 15, 2009
- Country
- Senegal
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
010/2011 Efoua Mbozo’o Samuel v The Pan African Parliament
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 010/2011
- Case type
- Decision
- Decision date
- Sep 30, 2011
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
004/2011 African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Order
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 004/2011
- Case type
- Order
- Decision date
- Mar 15, 2013
- Country
- Libya
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
Manifest errors at trial court
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Fair trial /right to have one’s cause heard - article 7
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
003/2016 John Lazaro v The United Republic of Tanzania
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 003/2016
- Case type
- Order of provisional measures
- Decision date
- Mar 18, 2016
- Country
- Tanzania
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
001/2013 Ernest Francis Mtingwi v Republic of Malawi
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 001/2013
- Case type
- Decision
- Decision date
- Mar 15, 2013
- Country
- Malawi
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
Application of other ratified human rights instruments
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Interpretation
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
001/2011 Femi Falana v The African Union (Separate Opinion Fatsah Ouguergouz)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 001/2011
- Case type
- Separate opinion
- Decision date
- Jun 26, 2012
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
002/2013 The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v Libya
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 002/2013
- Case type
- Judgment
- Decision date
- Jun 3, 2016
- Country
- Libya
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
Purposive Interpretation
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Interpretation
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Equality or non discrimination – article 2
- Commentary type
- Substance
- Substance
- Equality / non-discrimination - article 2
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
007/2012 Baghdadi Ali Mahmoudi v The Republic of Tunisia (Separate Opinion Fatsah Ouguergouz)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 007/2012
- Case type
- Separate opinion
- Decision date
- Jun 26, 2012
- Country
- Tunisia
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
Striking out an application
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Striking out an application
- Date modified
- Aug 23, 2017
Commentary
001/2011 Femi Falana v The African Union (Separate Opinion Akuffo, Ngoepe, Thompson)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 001/2011
- Case type
- Separate opinion
- Decision date
- Jun 26, 2012
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
002/2015 Syndicat des Anciens Travailleurs du Groupe de Laboratoire Australian Laboratory Services, ALS-Bamako (Morila) v Republic of Mali
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 002/2015
- Case type
- Decision
- Decision date
- Sep 5, 2016
- Country
- Mali
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
002/2012 Delta International Investments SA, Mr Agl de Lange and Mrs M de Lange v The Republic of South Africa (Separate Opinion Fatsah Ouguergouz)
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 002/2012
- Case type
- Separate opinion
- Decision date
- Mar 30, 2012
- Country
- South Africa
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
002/2012 Delta International Investments SA, Mr Agl de Lange and Mrs M de Lange v The Republic of South Africa
- Court
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Application nr
- 002/2012
- Case type
- Decision
- Decision date
- Mar 30, 2012
- Country
- South Africa
- Jurisdiction
- Item does not have this property
Contentious cases
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
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
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
Commentary
Compensation for moral damage
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Compensation for material damage
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Release from prison
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Release from prison
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Setting aside fines
- Commentary type
- Reparations
- Reparations
- Setting aside fines
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 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
Commentary
Provisional measaures
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Provisional measures
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary
Burden of Proof
- Commentary type
- Procedure
- Procedure
- Burden of proof
- Date modified
- Sep 1, 2017
Commentary