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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,…
Africa’s Turn: The African Court’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
On 2 May 2025, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR, the Court) received a request for an advisory opinion concerning the obligations of states in…
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…
Extending human rights accountability for corporate actors in the LIDHO v Cote d’Ivoire case of the African Court
In September 2023 the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR or African Court) handed down its first judgement for harm caused, including to the environment, due…
Western Sahara before the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights: Is there a “brother’s keeper” obligation for the Member States of the African Union?
In the current international context where States are ‘(re)discovering’ the virtue of international judicial litigation tools (before the ICJ or before the European Court of Human…
The Mauritius Oil Spill: Using Africa’s ‘judicial environmentalism’ as an avenue for redress?
Since the MV Wakashio ship ran aground on 25 July this year, Mauritius has been facing an unfolding human and environmental disaster. Up to 100,000 Mauritians took…
An Arusha-based World Court on Human Rights for African States?
The Arusha-based African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) enjoys a distinctively broad contentious jurisdiction extending to ‘all cases and disputes submitted to it concerning the…
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Delivers Landmark Ruling on Women’s Rights and the Rights of the Child in Mali
Introduction On 11 May 2018 the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (‘the Court’) issued its ruling in the case of Association Pour le…
Two Times Too Many: Botswana and the Death Penalty
Without wanting to trivialise the hard work needed to litigate human rights cases, it is often implementation that is considered the pinnacle of achievement. Put simply, it is…