African Human Rights Court holds vagrancy laws incompatible with African human rights instruments
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights on 4 December 2020, delivered a historic Advisory Opinion against ...
African Charter on Human and People’s Rights
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Affirms the Right to Access Documents Necessary for Appeals
On 7 December 2018, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights delivered its judgment in the case of Mgosi ...
ECOWAS Court Rules that use of Military Tribunals to Prosecute Civilians in Nigeria Violates Right to Fair Trial
On 29 June 2018 the Court of Justice for the Economic Community of West African States (‘ECOWAS Court’) handed down
Anudo v Tanzania: The African Court Recognises the Right to Nationality under Customary International Law
During the recently concluded 48th Ordinary Session, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered a ...
Developments from the 48th Ordinary Session of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
In the last week of February 2018, Africa’s principal human and peoples’ rights judicial organ, the African Court ...
One More Step Towards Human Rights Protection: Tunisia Allows Direct Access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
On 16th April 2017, the Republic of Tunisia signed a declaration allowing individuals and NGOs to access the ...
Another first: Reparations Awarded to Victims at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
The recent award of reparations by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to the applicants in Zongo and ...
A Watershed Case for African Human Rights: Mtikila and others v. Tanzania
Mtikila and others v. Tanzania was a watershed case heard before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. ...
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