African Human Rights Yearbook / Annuaire Africain des Droits de l’Homme

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Explore the African Human Rights Yearbook for comprehensive analysis of human rights developments, policies, and challenges across the African continent.

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Articles in this Journal

The repatriation of African heritage: shutting the door on the imperialist narrative

This article is written in recognition of the repatriation movement, which is going through a renaissance in relation to the cultural heritage of African peoples. The collecting of African cultural heritage without free, prior and informed...

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A retrospective evaluation of the determination of reparations for nonpecuniary loss: a comment on Lucien Ikili Rashidi v Tanzania

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is a distinct body that protects human rights and develops jurisprudence in international and regional law. It is on this basis that it often awards compensation for human rights violations. H...

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Social and Economic Rights Action Centre (SERAC) and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) v Nigeria: two decades on – questioning the continued implementation gap

Nearly two decades after the landmark decision in Social and Economic Rights Action Centre (SERAC) and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) v Nigeria, in which the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that Nige...

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Towards a more effective and coordinated response by the African Union on children’s privacy online in Africa

The development and expansion of digital technologies in Africa have brought invaluable opportunities for the realisation of children’s rights. However, the significant growth of internet connectivity and ICT access has also raised concern...

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Reforms of the African Union’s judicial system: legal and institutional challenges facing the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

This paper explores and demonstrates why the different systems and models of justice which the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the African Union (AU) respectively established are unstable. The OAU Charter did not create a court of...

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Holding corporations liable for human rights abuses committed in Africa: the need for strengthening domestic remedies

It has been two decades since the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Commission) rendered its landmark decision in SERAC and CESR v Nigeria. In this landmark judgment, and later in IHRDA and Others v DRC, the Commission expli...

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Poverty, policies, and politics: a rights-based approach to food insecurity in Africa

Food and nutrition insecurity remain serious African concerns, reflecting government failure to meet global and regional human rights obligations to assure food availability, accessibility, utilisation, stability, sustainability, and agenc...

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The withdrawal of state consent to the optional jurisdiction of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: a denial of citizens’ right of access to regional justice? A review of the case Glory Cyriaque Hossou and Another v Benin

This commentary reviews the judgment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Glory Cyriaque Hossou and Another v Benin, concerning the withdrawal of Benin’s declaration made under article 34(6) of the African Court’s Protocol....

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The judicial function of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in default judgments: the developments set forth in the Léon Mugesera case

This case discussion focuses on the judicial function of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court) in default judgments. The discussion brings to the foreground the changes introduced by the Court in its recently revised Rules...

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Commentary on the judgment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the case of Anudo Ochieng Anudo v United Republic of Tanzania

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) handed down its first judgment on the right not to be arbitrarily deprived of one’s nationality in relation to the right not to be arbitrarily expelled in the case of Anudo Och...