Specialised section part of Ravel – Repository on the International Protection of Adults > International Human Rights legal instruments dealing with vulnerable adults > Regional Human Rights instruments
- African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Adoption: 27 June 1981
- Official text in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic
- Status: updated number and list of States parties to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Case-law
- African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, Media Rights Agenda v. Nigeria, Communication Nos. 105/93, 128/94, 130/94 and 152/96, Banjul, Gambia, 31 October 1998
- African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, Purohit and Moore v. The Gambia, 15-29 May 2003, Niamey, Niger
- African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Collectif Des Anciens Travailleurs du Laboratoire (ALS) v. Republic of Mali, App. No. 002/2015
- African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, George Maili Kemboge v. United Republic of Tanzania, App. No. 002/2016
- Bibliography
- Ilias Bantekas and Lutz Oette, International Human Rights Law and Practice (4th edition Cambridge University Press 2024), 288-303.
- Andrea Broderick and Delia Ferri, International and European Disability Law and Policy. Text, cases and materials (Cambridge University Press 2019).
- Eghosa Osa Ekhator, ‘The impact of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on domestic law: a case study of Nigeria’ [2015] 41(2) Commonwealth Law Bulletin 253-270. 🔒
- Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the African Commission, A Guide to the African Human Rights System (Pretoria University Law Press 2016).
- Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the African Commission, Guide to the African human rights system – Celebrating 40 years since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 1981 – 2021 (Pretoria University Law Press 2021).
- Columbia University Law School, African Human Rights System Research Guide (available online soon here).
- Daniel D C Don Nanjira, ‘The protection of human rights in Africa: the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ in Janusz Symonides (ed), Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement (Routledge-UNESCO Publishing 2003), 213-237. 🔒
- International Justice Resource Center, Advocacy before the African Human Rights System: A Manual for Attorneys and Advocates (IJRC 2017).
- International Justice Resource Center, Civil Society Access to International Oversight Bodies: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (IJRC 2018).
- Kofi Oteng Kufuor, The African Human Rights System. Origin and Evolution (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).
- Christopher Roberts, Alternative Approaches to Human Rights. The Disparate Historical Path of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems (Cambridge University Press 2023). 🔒
- Frans Viljoen, International Human Rights Law in Africa (2nd edition Oxford University Press 2012). 🔒
- Frans Viljoen, ‘The impact and influence of the African regional human rights system on domestic law’ in Scott Sheeran and Nigel Rodley (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law (Routledge 2013), 445-466. 🔒
- Useful websites
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa
- Adoption: 31 January 2016
- PDF version of the official text of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa in English, French and Portuguese
- Status: updated number and list of States parties to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa
- Bibliography
- Luigino Manca, ‘Prime note sul Protocollo africano sui diritti delle persone anziane‘ [2017] 3 federalismi.it Rivista di diritto pubblico italiano, comparato, europeo 1-19.
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa
- Adoption: 29 January 2018
- PDF version of the official text of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic
- Status: updated number and list of States parties to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa
- Bibliography
- Japhet Biegon, ‘The promotion and protection of disability rights in the African human rights system’ in Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis and Tobias van Reenen (eds), Aspects of disability law in Africa (Pretoria University Law Press 2012), 53-84.
- Andrea Broderick and Delia Ferri, International and European Disability Law and Policy. Text, cases and materials (Cambridge University Press 2019).
- Serges A Djoyou Kamga, ‘A call for a protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ rights on the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa‘ [2013] 21(2) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 219-249.
- Laura-Stella Enonchong, ‘Mental disability and the right to personal liberty in Africa’ [2017] 21(9) International Journal of Human Rights 1351-1377. 🔒
- Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis and Tobias van Reenen, ‘Introduction to aspects of disability law in Africa’ in Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis and Tobias van Reenen (eds), Aspects of disability law in Africa (Pretoria University Law Press 2012), xv ss.
Click on the image below to keep browsing Ravel
