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Title: | On-Site Visits by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights: A Case Study and Comparison with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
Author: | Murray, Rachel |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | African Journal of International and Comparative Law |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 460-473 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Mauritania |
Subjects: | African agreements human rights African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/afjincol11&id=478&collection=journals&index=journals/afjincol |
Abstract: | The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has recently undertaken a number of missions in relation to communications received against various States. The success of such investigations, however, depends on the clarity of the aims and the process adopted in carrying them out. This article compares the mandates, purpose, methods and success of the African Commission with those of its Inter-American counterpart. An analysis of the general approach of the African and Inter-American system is considered through examining two specific missions: in the case of the former, to Mauritania, in 1996, and the latter, to Bolivia. The article notes a number of criticisms of the African Commission's visit to Mauritania, notably the delay in the publication of its report, and its failure to achieve either of its objectives of amicable resolution or of fact-finding. In addition, there was no established follow-up procedure. Until the African Commission develops a concrete procedure for on-site missions, it risks being seen to be open to government pressure, politically biased and denying victims at the very least the statement by an international body that their rights have been violated. Notes, ref. |