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Title:Assessing regional approaches to the protection of human rights: the case of the stillborn African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Author:Kanyeihamba, G.W.ISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights (ISSN 1021-8858)
Volume:15
Issue:2
Pages:278-295
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
human rights
Abstract:This paper argues that as presently structured, facilitated and mistrusted, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights is ill-suited for the tasks it was envisaged to perform, as reflected both in the Protocol and Statute establishing the institution. The Protocol establishing the Court failed to put in place a mechanism to ensure that the judges measured up to the qualifications and practical, professional and judicial wisdom demanded of a continental Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. Worse still, Article 2 of the Protocol assigns the African Court a subordinate role to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, whose membership is largely non-judicial and whose role is mainly advisory to the organs of the African Union and its member States. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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