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Item type:periodical.listelement.badge, Item type:Publication, News Concerning the Universal System and Regional Systems for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights(IHR Legal, 2026-07) IHR LegalThis edition provides an overview of the most recent developments within the United Nations human rights system and the regional human rights protection systems, including the report of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the systematic use of conflict-related sexual violence as a weapon of war in Sudan; two views adopted by the Human Rights Committee concerning, respectively, the protection of an adolescent's right to privacy in relation to the collection and retention of his DNA profile, and the responsibility for deporting a child with a severe disability without an adequate assessment of the risk of irreparable harm resulting from the lack of appropriate medical treatment in the receiving country; as well as the recent actions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to protect human rights defenders and address xenophobic violence against migrants in South Africa. The newsletter also examines the most significant decisions of the regional human rights systems, including judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning discrimination against Jehovah's Witnesses in Italy; reports issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Mexico's ongoing crisis of enforced disappearances and the labour conditions of Cuban medical personnel participating in international medical missions; and the recent judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights holding Nicaragua and Venezuela internationally responsible for serious human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, torture, violations of judicial guarantees, and unlawful restrictions on political rights. Each edition aims to provide a carefully curated selection of news and developments through which practitioners, academics, and human rights defenders may identify issues of relevance and interest, regardless of their particular areas of specialization.Item type:Publication, Booklet on the Implementation of Decisions of The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights / Brochure sur la Mise en Oeuvre des Arrêts de La Cour Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et de Peuples(Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 2021) Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ RightsThe Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Coalition) was formed during the first conference for the promotion of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights establishing the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) in Niamey, Niger in May 2003. The Coalition is a membership based made up with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), independent human rights institutions, legal and none-legal practitioners, and individual members. The key purpose for its establishment is to advocate for an effective and independent African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in order to provide redress to victims of human rights violations and strengthen the human rights protection system in Africa. The Coalition secretariat is based in Arusha, Tanzania where it was registered under the Tanzania NGOs Act since the year 2007. The Coalition is aware that there is a growing concern regarding the non-implementation of the African Court judgments, yet implementation of judgments or decisions of the Court is one of the key aspects of the litigation process that would make the work of the African Court effective. For the time being, the concept of implementation of decisions of the Court is largely new to national stakeholders who need to be aware that implementation of regional decisions at national level needs to be monitored to enhance chances of success. It is with the above in mind that the Coalition developed this Booklet to provide basic understand of how regional decisions are received in the legal orders of selected countries for purposes of recognition and enforcement. Thus, the substantive part of this Booklet begins with an overall analysis of the legal and institutional framework put in place by the AU to ensure the implementation of the Court’s judgments. The sections that follow then discuss implementation at country level for each of the States that have lodged the Declaration giving the Court competence to adjudicate on cases brought by individuals and NGOs. For information purposes, the country sections first stress on the provisions of the municipal law governing recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. The reports move on to describe the domestic framework and actual processes of implementation of judgments for States that have been parties to proceedings before the Court.Item type:Publication, Les Principes Généraux de Droit dans la Jurisprudence de la Cour Africaine des Droits de L’homme et des PeuplesLa Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples a contribué de façon singulière à la notoriété prétorienne des principes généraux de droit. Une telle contribution s’est manifestée sous au moins trois articulations : d’abord, la Cour a entrepris une décolonisation de ces principes en les déconfinant de normes propres aux « nations civilisées » à des principes également « reconnues par les nations africaines ». La Cour a, en outre, fait de ces principes une double application procédurale et substantielle puisqu’elle y a recouru tant pour réguler ses procédures que pour contextualiser les garanties fondamentales universellement reconnues. Enfin, sans renier les « canons » en la matière, la Cour les a adaptés au système africain des droits de l’homme. C’est ce qui ressort, par exemple, du recours qu’elle fait à la doctrine de l’actio popularis pour faire écho à la singulière reconnaissance de l’intérêt général et des droits communautaires dans la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples. En tout état de cause, il est peu compréhensible que les principes généraux de droit tels que formulés par les juridictions nationales africaines soient encore inaudibles dans la jurisprudence de la Cour.Item type:periodical.listelement.badge,