Mary Amadi

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Mary Amadi is a research assistant in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada.

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Renewed State Backlash Against the African Court: Tunisia is the Fifth State to Withdraw Individual and NGO Access

The African Union’s continental human rights court, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR), received a setback this past March when Tunisia withdrew its declaration, under Article 34(6) of the Court’s founding Protocol, allowing individuals and NGOs to directly access the Court. Tunisia accounts for 24 (7%) of the 371 applications to the…

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The Malabo Protocol’s 10th Anniversary Revives Advocacy for an African Criminal Court

2024 marks ten years since the African Union (AU) states adopted the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (Malabo Protocol), which would create a regional criminal court for Africa. The Protocol would add a criminal section alongside the general and human rights sections of the…

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