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Title:Focus: Twenty years after the entry into force of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Editor:Nyanduga, Bahame TomISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:African Human Rights Law Journal (ISSN 1609-073X)
Volume:6
Issue:2
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
human rights
Abstract:On 21 October 1986, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights entered into force. This issue of the 'African Human Rights Law Journal', appearing as the 20th anniversary of the Charter is celebrated, is an extended commemoration of the Charter's life. Some of the contributions provide a general overview of the African human rights system (Bahame Tom Nyanduga; Jean Didier Boukongou), others discuss developments with regard to particular rights and also procedural aspects: the right to a fair trial (Nsongurua J. Udombana), the right not to be subjected to torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment (Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi), and the broad standing requirement (Morten Peschardt Pedersen). Two features have often been described as uniquely 'African' characteristics of the African Charter: the inclusion of socioeconomic rights as binding guarantees alongside civil and political rights in one treaty (article by Christopher Mbazira), and the provision in the Charter for the rights of indigenous peoples, 'peoples' rights' (articles by Solomon A. Dersso; Kealeboga N. Bojosi and George Mukundi Wachira). However, without mechanisms for the effective implementation of normative standards and remedies for their violation, protected rights have little meaning. Although the findings of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights are formally only recommendatory in nature, arguments have been advanced that they have a binding effect. George Mukundi Wachira and Abiola Ayinla assess these propositions, while Godfrey M. Musila examines the effectiveness of remedies provided under the African Charter. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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