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June 2022 - present
University of Goma
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Cette contribution a été présentée lors d'une conférence organisée à l'Université de Goma (RDC) le 10 décembre 2022 en marge de la célébration de la journée internationale des droits de l'homme alors que la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme réalisait 74 ans.
Since its adoption on 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) has become a landmark on the African human rights landscape. It has steadily gained prominence as a trail-blazing instrument, responsive to the diverse realities of women on the African continen...
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) established a reporting process to monitor compliance. Despite its shortcomings, this process provides an opportunity for states to engage in a frank, constructive and open dialogue with the African Commission on the measures they hav...
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights is increasingly taking on the role of a regional electoral adjudication body in resolving election-related human rights violations. While this role is essential because of the contested nature of elections in Africa and the inability of many national election resolution mechanisms to sanction elec...
The African Union (AU), which succeeded the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 2002, is based on a strong legal and institutional framework that reinforces constitutionalism at national, regional and continental levels. This framework is a response to the failure of the OAU to tame autocratic tendencies within its member states. It cements the...
Militaries are to defend national territorial integrity, protect the citizenry, uphold the constitution and play a supportive role in upholding the democratic ideals of a country. However, some militaries across African countries have defined their roles differently, relying on the instrumentality of force to engage in politics and thereby subvert...
Dans un État où le droit et les institutions judiciaires ont été historiquement utilisés à des fins d'exclusion de la majorité de la population et de raffermissement du pouvoir d'une minorité raciale, les cours et tribunaux peuvent et doivent contribuer de manière active au redressement de l'équilibre racial rompu. En interprétant la nature, le sen...
he African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has made considerable progress in its jurisprudential activities in the year 2020. Between January and December 2020 the African Court delivered 55 decisions and received 40 new cases and one request for an advisory opinion. The swift response the African Court adopted to the challenges posed by the COV...
The central question addressed by this contribution is whether the manner in which the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter) is invoked and applied by the Benin Constitutional Court provides good prospects for improving the quality of the judicial protection of human rights. Has the Benin Constitutional Court relied on the...
The unexpected outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on democracy, constitutionalism and human rights in Africa. Many executive and legislative officials used the pandemic as a powerful excuse to postpone elections without making significant efforts to seek consensus among affected stakeholders as required by...
Cet ouvrage collectif comprend 18 contributions des enseignants et chercheurs africains des pays francophones. Il a évalué les 60 ans d’indépendance de l’État africain, à partir de l’expérience de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC). Trois axes principaux renfermant les déficits structurels, organiques et matériels qui caractérisent l’État so...
In 2019, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted General Comment No 5 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Right to Freedom of Movement and Residence (Article 12(1)). In this general comment, the commission elaborated on the right to freedom of movement and residence within state borders. This issue, while ex...
Abstract: This chapter examines the manner in which the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court/the Court) interpreted Article 4 of the Protocol on the African Charter on the Establishment of an African Court (the Court Protocol) in its first 10 years of jurisprudence. It looked at the way the Court construed rules on its personal...
Le 19 décembre 2005, la Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ) condamne l'Ouganda pour avoir violé la souveraineté de la RDC en menant, sans son consentement, des activités armées sur son territoire, des violations graves des droits de l'homme et de droit international humanitaire commises par ses militaires, le pillage des ressources naturelles et à...
This article reviews selected developments in human rights and democratisation in sub-Saharan African during 2017. It discusses the presidential elections held in Kenya, Liberia, Angola, Rwanda and Somalia/ Somaliland, noting in particular democratic gains in Liberia, Angola and Somalia where elections resulted in changes of government, which broug...
External actors have predominantly driven the securitisation agenda in Africa with the architecture traceable to Africa' s immediate post-independence past. This article theorises about a double-faced securitisation process in Africa-'securitisation from outside' influencing 'securitisation within'. The theoretical framework is used to identify thr...
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Cet ouvrage commente des décisions judiciaires rendues par les Cours et Tribunaux de l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo. Cette publication contient l'actualité pour un pays en situation post-conflits, mais aussi la qualité d’analyse et du champ étendu des arrêts examinés permet aux lecteur et lectrices d'acquérir une matiè...
Le 19 décembre 2005, la Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ) condamne l’Ouganda pour avoir violé la souveraineté de la RDC en menant, sans son consentement, des activités armées sur son territoire, des violations graves des droits de l’homme et de droit international humanitaire commises par ses militaires, le pillage des ressources naturelles et à...
