Komisi Hak Asasi Manusia dan Hak Penduduk Afrika

Komisi Hak Asasi Manusia dan Hak Penduduk Afrika (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, ACHPR) adalah sebuah badan semi-yudisial yang bertugas mempromosikan dan melindungi hak asasi manusia dan hak kolektif (penduduk) di seluruh belahan benua Afrika serta menafsirkan Piagam Hak Asasi Manusia dan Hak Penduduk Afrika dan melayani aduan individual dari pelanggaran Piagam tersebut. Ini meliputi penyelidikan pelanggaran HAM, menciptkana dan menyepakati program-program peninadakan terhadap pendorongan HAM dan menghimpun komunikasi antara mereka dan negara-negara yang memberikan informasi tangan pertama soal pelanggaran HAM.^[1]

Komposisi

Nama	Negara Asal	Jabatan	Terpilih	Masa jabatan	Terpilih kembali
Faith Pansy Tlakula	Afrika Selatan	Ketua	2005	2011	2012
Solomon Ayele Dersso	Ethiopia	Anggota
Jamesina Essie L. King	Sierra Leone	Anggota
Lawrence Murugu Mute	Kenya	Anggota	2013	2019
Zainabo Sylvie Kayitesi	Rwanda	Anggota	2007	2009	2010
Reine Alapini-Gansou	Benin	Anggota	2005	2011	2012
Yeung Kam John Yeung Sik Yuen	Mauritius	Anggota	2007	2013
Lucy Asuagbor	Kamerun	Anggota	2010	2016
Maya Sahli Fadel	Aljazair	Anggota	2011	2017
Med S.K. Kaggwa	Uganda	Anggota	2011	2017
Soyata Maiga	Mali	Anggota	2007	2013	2014

Daftar pustaka

• Ankumah, Evelyn A., African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Kluwer, 1996
• Bösl, A & Diescho, J., Human Rights in Africa. Legal perspectives on their protection and promotion, with a foreword by Desmond Tutu, Macmillan 2009.
• Murray, RH. Human Rights in Africa: From the OAU to the African Union, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Evans, MD & Murray, RH (Eds.), The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System at Work, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Evans, MD & Murray, RH (Eds.), The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Second Edition): The System in Practice 1986–2006, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Murray, RH & Evans, MD (Eds.), Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Hart Publishing, 2001.
• Numerous academic articles on the jurisprudence of the African Commission published in the African Human Rights Law Journal
• Reports and information about the ACHPR from the International Service for Human Rights Diarsipkan 2013-10-01 di Wayback Machine.
• Reports of ACHPR cases published in the African Human Rights Law Reports
• Regular updates of news on the ACHPR published by the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

Pranala luar

• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
• Text of African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Diarsipkan 2012-07-19 di Archive.is
• Decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
• African Union
• Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Referensi

1. ↑ Welch, Claude (December 1991). "Organisation of African Unity and the Promotion of Human Rights". The Journal of Modern African Studies.