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Title: | The Role of Case and Complaints Procedures in the Reform of the African Regional Human Rights System |
Author: | Odinkalu, Chidi Anselm |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Human Rights Law Journal |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 225-246 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | African agreements human rights African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Law, Human Rights and Violence |
Abstract: | This paper considers the role of case and complaints procedures in the reform of the African human rights system. It argues essentially that the reform of the African regional human rights system is a multi-dimensional and incremental project, the realization of which will benefit from optimizing the case-based and quasi mandates of the African Commission on Human and Peoples'Rights. The paper begins with a summary of some of the criticism of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' rights and the Commission and then proceeds to give an overview of the current performance of the Commission and the constraints faced by it. It summarizes some of the major areas of the Commission's jurisprudence to demonstrate how many of the early criticisms of the Charter and the Commission are now in arrears of the current state of evolution of the African regional human rights system. The paper makes the case that the clamour for reform of the African regional system must be based on a careful, more rigorous assessment of the actual performance and real potential of the African regional system than is presently the case. Notes, ref. |