Implementing Human Rights in Africa

Abstract

The possibility of individual complaints gives teeth to a human rights convention. This book concerns the way in which individual communications under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The African Commission has faced considerable procedural problems in its effort to enforce the rights and freedoms of the Charter. These problems by now have been mostly solve, often in imaginative and original ways. This book takes up some of the problems as well as the solutions found by the African Commission. The actual role of the courts in the African states, as it appears from the communications submitted to the Commission, as well as the desired role of the judiciary in the view of the African Commission is also explored.