African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights: Twenty Years from Addis Ababa Protocol

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Result on the web
<a href="https://rozkotova.cld.bz/CYIL-vol-8-2017/326/" target="_blank" >https://rozkotova.cld.bz/CYIL-vol-8-2017/326/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights: Twenty Years from Addis Ababa Protocol
Original language description
The Addis Ababa Protocol drafted in December 1997 led to the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ("the ACHPR"). Upon the twentieth anniversary of its adoption, this paper describes the establishment of the ACHPR and the development that the jurisdiction of the Court has undergone during the past years in regard to individuals as applicants. Because most of the African countries historically preferred sovereignty preservation to human rights protection, the initial competences of the Court in individual cases remained limited. Consequently, the Court could not decide upon the merits of any case for the fi rst thirteen years of its existence; all the applications were refused since most applicants had been individuals. Nevertheless, in recent years, the Court has issued 8 judgements on the merits, 7 of them in case of individuals as applicants. This paper describes how the Court obtained enlarged competences to decide cases of individuals and summarizes Court's meritorious decisions. The paper concludes with a warning that this positive development could be hindered by deeper incorporation of the Court into African Union structures.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law, česká ročenka mezinárodního práva veřejného a soukromého
ISSN
1805-0565
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11. 12. 2017
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
306-320
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85041061223

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