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Title: | The Reform and Renewal of the African Regional Human and Peoples' Rights System |
Author: | Gutto, Shadrack |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Human Rights Law Journal |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 175-184 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | African organizations African agreements human rights African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Law, Human Rights and Violence |
Abstract: | The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its human and peoples' rights system have not remained static since their establishment. However, to date changes within the African human rights system, though significant, remain minimal compared to the current initiative to qualitatively transform the OAU and to re-invent it as the African Union (AU). This article briefly comments on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and its institutional mechanisms within the broader context of the African human rights system. The unnecessary duplication of enforcement mechanisms is pointed out and the changes within the OAU and its human rights system are reviewed and criticized. A case is made for rationalization of the various treaties and instruments and the mechanisms for their enforcement. The central argument is for mainstreaming the human rights system within the principal organs of the African Union (AU) in order to strengthen the system. It is pointed out that to achieve this purpose, a special amendment, by a way of a protocol, to the Constitutive Act of the African Union (Constitutive Act) would be necessary. Notes, ref. |