This document considers the wealth of information available to the working group that will be established at the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on Human Rights to consider options regarding the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR. (more…)
On 24 September, the United Nation Human Rights Commission held a one-day informal session, in part to discuss the human rights agenda for the present session of the General Assembly in New York. (more…)
On November 30, 2001, the ICJ convened a roundtable on the draft Optional Protocol, (hereinafter draft OP), to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, (hereinafter ICESCR or the Covenant). (more…)
The ICJ welcomes the decision taken by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity (DAU) on 9 June 1998, to establish an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. (more…)
The purpose of the Review is to focus attention on the problems in regard to which lawyers can make their contribution to society in their respective areas of influence and to provide them with the necessary information and data. (more…)
Practical guide on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and its procedures. (more…)
