Assembly/AU/Dec.101(VI)
DECISION ON THE 19TH ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION
ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS - (Doc. EX.CL/236 (VIII))
The Assembly:
1.
ADOPTS and authorize, in accordance with Article 59 of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Charter), the publication of
the 19th Activity Report of the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and its annexes, except for those containing
the Resolutions on Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Uganda and
Zimbabwe;
2.
REQUESTS the concerned Member States to make available to the
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights within three (3)
months of the adoption of the present Decision, their views on the said
Resolutions and the ACHPR to submit a Report thereon to the next
Ordinary Session of the Executive Council;
3.
CALLS UPON the ACHPR to ensure that in future, it enlists the
responses of all States parties to its Resolutions and Decisions before
submitting them to the Executive Council and/or the Assembly for
consideration;
4.
REQUESTS States parties, within three (3) months of the notification
by the ACHPR, to communicate their responses to Resolutions and
Decisions to be submitted to the Executive Council and/or the
Assembly;
5.
WELCOMES the entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter
on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa on
25th November 2005 and URGES Member States which have not yet
done so to ratify/accede to the Protocol;
6.
REITERATES its request to the AU Commission to allocate adequate
resources from its operational budget to the ACHPR as provided for in
Article 41 of the Charter to enable the ACHPR discharge independently
its mandate under the Charter;
7.
URGES Member States, which have not yet done so, to present their
outstanding periodic reports to the ACHPR in accordance with Article
62 of the Charter;
8.
REQUESTS the ACHPR to complete, as soon as possible, the work
undertaken on its relations with the various organs and institutions of
the African Union, including the African Court on Human and Peoples’
Rights; and to submit to it, appropriate recommendations relating
thereto;
9.
ALSO REQUESTS the ACHPR to take part in the process of
operationalization of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.