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Title:Interim Measures of Protection in the African System for the Protection of Human and People's Rights
Author:Naldi, Gino J.ISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:African Human Rights Law Journal
Volume:2
Issue:1
Pages:1-10
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:African agreements
human rights
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Abstract:Many human rights organizations make provision for the appropriate convention enforcement organs to indicate interim or provisional measures for protection in cases of emergency in order to safeguard the rights and persons of victims of human rights violations. The principal instrument in Africa for such protection is the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, under the aegis of the OAU. Recently established, its powers are relatively weak but one of its steps was to establish the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in 1987. Interim measures are provided through Rule 111 of the Rules of Procedure. Its weakeness was demonstrated when it tried to intervene in the case of Ken Saro Wiwa in Nigeria in 1994 and 1995. Its powers have purportedly been greatly strengthened by setting up an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, specifically to reinforce the role of the Commission, but its wings have still to be properly tested. Although its foundation was greeted with profound pessimism, the author feels that the time for a reappraisal has arrived since the Commission has been successfully addressing its problems. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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