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Laws and practices on asylum must resist politics of fear and exclusion: UN rights experts
World Refugee Day 20 June 2024 GENEVA (19 June 2024) – Ahead of World Refugee Day tomorrow, the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR) – a group of UN and regional human rights experts and mandate holders – issued the following statement: “Across the world many countries and communities are providing courageous examples of welcoming refugees, showing how the right to seek asylum can be guaranteed and implemented in ways that empower refugees and enable them to contribute...
Framing Climate Litigation in Individual Communications of the African Human Rights System: Claw-Backs and Substantive Divergences
Climate litigation is anticipated to continue expanding, especially related to the interface with the human rights of vulnerable populations and the adequacy of states’ efforts to adopt and implement climate laws. While the possibility of climate-related litigation is envisaged before the African Human Rights System (AHRS), there is no pioneering case on climate change at that level yet.
Coups are always a bad idea – even the popular ones - The Mail & Guardian Original
One more time: Malian soldiers arrive in Bamako after rebel troops seized power in the fragile West African country. (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images) The coup d’état in Guinea earlier this month was just the latest manifestation of a worrying trend: an increase in the frequency of military coups in Africa. In 2019, there was one successful seizure of power (Sudan), and another one in 2020 (Mali). So far in 2021 there have been three: Chad, Mali again, and Guinea.
UNESCO launches the Portuguese version of its Toolkit for the Judiciary in Africa
Building peace in the minds of men and women As part of its on-going project of strengthening the role of judicial actors in Africa on international and regional standards on freedom of expression and the safety of journalists, UNESCO has launched the Portuguese version of its Legal Standards on Freedom of Expression: Toolkit for the Judiciary in Africa.
Evaluating the African Charter, 40 years on
Forty years after its adoption Africa is nowhere near achieving the promises of the African Charter. (Ziyange Auntony/AFP) The month of June marks the 40th anniversary of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Although many of its promises have been honored by breach rather than compliance, the African Charter came into being as an embodiment of African States’ conviction of “their duty to promote and protect human and peoples’ rights and freedoms”.
African Union wants vaccine patent waiver
Playing safe: Multiple hand-washing basins at the Mushin Market in Lagos were installed by a pharmaceutical company to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP) COMMENT It may not have been a leading headline, but one notable aspect of the 34th summit of the African Union (AU) assembly, held from 6-7 February, was its focus on the response to Covid-19.
Message by African Union Chair and President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of the Launch of the Digital Platform for the Safety of Journalists in Africa | The Presidency
Friends, Colleagues, Fellow Africans, Thank you for inviting me to be part of the launch of this crucial platform to promote a free, diverse and vibrant African media. The media has a crucial role to play in the historic and continent-wide movement by Africans to build a continent of their dreams. Our march towards the achievement of the aspirations of Agenda 2063 – of the Africa we want – requires that we nurture and protect a free and independent media.
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