Komisi Hak Asasi Manusia dan Hak Penduduk Afrika

Komisi Hak Asasi Manusia dan Hak Penduduk Afrika (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, ACHPR) adalah sebuah badan semi-yudisial yang bertugas mempromosikan dan melindungi hak asasi manusia dan hak kolektif (penduduk) di seluruh belahan benua Afrika serta menafsirkan Piagam Hak Asasi Manusia dan Hak Penduduk Afrika dan melayani aduan individual dari pelanggaran Piagam tersebut. Ini meliputi penyelidikan pelanggaran HAM, menciptkana dan menyepakati program-program peninadakan terhadap pendorongan HAM dan menghimpun komunikasi antara mereka dan negara-negara yang memberikan informasi tangan pertama soal pelanggaran HAM.[1]

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Nama Negara Asal Jabatan Terpilih Masa jabatan Terpilih kembali
Faith Pansy Tlakula   Afrika Selatan Ketua 2005 2011 2012
Solomon Ayele Dersso   Ethiopia Anggota
Jamesina Essie L. King   Sierra Leone Anggota
Lawrence Murugu Mute   Kenya Anggota 2013 2019
Zainabo Sylvie Kayitesi   Rwanda Anggota 2007 2009 2010
Reine Alapini-Gansou   Benin Anggota 2005 2011 2012
Yeung Kam John Yeung Sik Yuen   Mauritius Anggota 2007 2013
Lucy Asuagbor   Kamerun Anggota 2010 2016
Maya Sahli Fadel   Aljazair Anggota 2011 2017
Med S.K. Kaggwa  Uganda Anggota 2011 2017
Soyata Maiga  Mali Anggota 2007 2013 2014

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  • Ankumah, Evelyn A., African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Kluwer, 1996
  • Bösl, A & Diescho, J., Human Rights in Africa. Legal perspectives on their protection and promotion, with a foreword by Desmond Tutu, Macmillan 2009.
  • Murray, RH. Human Rights in Africa: From the OAU to the African Union, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Evans, MD & Murray, RH (Eds.), The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System at Work, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Evans, MD & Murray, RH (Eds.), The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Second Edition): The System in Practice 1986–2006, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Murray, RH & Evans, MD (Eds.), Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Hart Publishing, 2001.
  • Numerous academic articles on the jurisprudence of the African Commission published in the African Human Rights Law Journal
  • Reports and information about the ACHPR from the International Service for Human Rights Diarsipkan 2013-10-01 di Wayback Machine.
  • Reports of ACHPR cases published in the African Human Rights Law Reports
  • Regular updates of news on the ACHPR published by the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

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  1. ^ Welch, Claude (December 1991). "Organisation of African Unity and the Promotion of Human Rights". The Journal of Modern African Studies.