Examples of African Commission in a sentence
Pending the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights shall be seized with matters of interpretation arising from the application and implementation of this Protocol.
The point must be made, however, that despite the fact that the African Child Right Committee takes a position equivalent to that of the African Commission in relation to cases brought on the basis of the African Children’s Charter before the Court, there is no reference to that Committee in the Court’s interim rules.As far as the pre-hearing stage is concerned, there are three main aspects in which quasi-judicial bodies may be involved.
In this regard, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission), a treaty body cre- ated in the African Charter, and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Child Rights Committee or the Committee) are prom- inent.
In Article 27(2) of the Protocol on the Statute of the Afri- can Court of Justice and Human Rights (Court Statute), the ACJHR is invited to bear in mind ‘the complementarity it maintains with the African Commission and the African Child Right’42 in the course of making its rules of court.
In this con- text, Nmehielle reiterates that the essence of the African Charter is ‘the protection of human rights in accordance with international standards rather than a particular African standard’.43 As is now common knowledge, under the Charter itself only the African Commission was established to supervise compliance.
As part of the agreement, the EU committed to the AU €55 million as a means of facilitating an ‘integrated and comprehensive support’ to five main AU institutions with human rights mandates.234 Under the first phase (2006-2013), funding assisted the AU Commission, Pan African Parliament (PAP), African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights (African Commission) and the African Court for Human and Peoples' Rights (African Court) to revamp and enhance their capacities in human rights and democracy building.
See also, for the applicability of other regional conventions to aliens not lawfully on the territory, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Provisional Measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the matter of the Dominican Republic, case of Haitian and Haitian-Origin Dominican Persons in the Dominican Republic, order of the court of 18 August 2000, and African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme v.
As an example the programme activities of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights is completely funded through donors.
Whatever promise it may have held at the time it was conceived and established, it did not take long for the alleged ineffectiveness of the African Commission to emerge as one of the main criti- cisms against the African Charter and the entire African human rights system.
In the view of some commentators, the Afri- can Commission should ‘play a prominent role as a filter mechanism’112 or act as a ‘screening body’.113 This is apparently the picture that emerges from the Inter-Ameri- can system where ‘complaints by individuals alleging human rights abuses must first be directed to the Inter-American Commission’.114 However, it has to be borne in mind that the African Commission and the African Child Right Committee were not estab- lished with such ‘support’ roles in mind.