Many partner states ignore, fail to comply with or simply wish the decisions by the African Court on Human and People’s Rights away. FILE PHOTO | COURTESY
Judicial officers and lawyers in Africa have proposed amendments that will give teeth to the African Court on Human and People’s Rights to ensure compliance with its decisions by partner states.
The amendments are targeted at the African Union Treaty that established the Court. The proposal was supported by EAC partner states’ chief justices, and lawyers and representatives of human rights institutions drawn from 44 African Union countries at the Court’s Fifth African Dialogue held in Dar es Salaam recently.
