{"id":33135,"date":"2018-02-09T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=33135"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:43:31","slug":"sahrawi-president-lauds-the-african-court-for-dispensing-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/sahrawi-president-lauds-the-african-court-for-dispensing-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahrawi president lauds the African Court for dispensing justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Catherine Ageno<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) H.E Brahim Ghali has commended the African Court for dispensing justice\u00a0in Africa.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the Courts\u2019 three-day sensitisation mission to the country that ended yesterday, president Ghali said his country attaches high importance to the respect for human rights and human dignity.<\/p>\n

He informed the Court that Sahrawi was still consulting on the issue of the declaration allowing individuals and NGOs to have direct access to the court and would do everything possible to enhance its support to the court.<\/p>\n

\u2019This meets your mandate of ensuring respect for human and peoples\u2019 rights and gives self-confidence to the people of Africa for truth, progress and self-determination,\u2019\u2019 President Ghali told the African Court delegation during his discussions at the State House.<\/p>\n

He also urged the African Court to continue to pursue vigorously its quest to create a continent of self-respecting people that abides by norms of fairness and justice.<\/p>\n

The main objective of the visit was to encourage SADR, which has already ratified the Protocol, to deposit the declaration required under Article 34(6) of the Protocol.<\/p>\n

The sensitization mission was part of\u00a0the Court’s efforts to interact with different stakeholders in order to deepen their understanding of the Court\u2019s mission and importance and to encourage States to ratify the Protocol establishing the AfCHPR and deposit the declaration under Article 34(6), which allows direct access to the Court by NGOs and individuals.<\/p>\n

So far, 30 out of 55 African Union (AU) Member States have ratified the Protocol and only 8 of them have deposited the declaration recognising the competence of the Court to receive cases from NGOs and individuals. These 8 States are: Benin, Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Tanzania and Tunisia.<\/p>\n

The African Court President, Hon. Justice Sylvain Or\u00e9\u00a0who led the AfCHPR delegation welcomed the SADR\u2019s desire to consider depositing the declaration,\u00a0calling it\u00a0a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019For the Court to achieve its objectives and further strengthen African human rights systems, a greater number of countries must ratify the Protocol and make the declaration (under Article 34(6) ),\u2019\u2019 he stressed.<\/p>\n

The AfCHPR was established by virtue of Article 1 of the\u00a0Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights\u00a0on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights,\u00a0\u00a0to complement the protective mandate of the African Commission on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights, with a view to enhancing the protection of human rights on the continent.<\/p>\n

Since December 2010, the Court has carried out continent-wide promotion programmes which have so far seen it undertake 29 sensitisation visits and held 12 regional, continental seminars and conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Catherine Ageno The President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) H.E Brahim Ghali has commended the African Court for dispensing justice\u00a0in Africa. Speaking during the Courts\u2019 three-day sensitisation mission to the country that ended yesterday, president Ghali said his country attaches high importance to the respect for human rights and human dignity. He informed the Court that Sahrawi was still consulting on the issue of the declaration allowing individuals and NGOs to have direct access to the court and would do everything possible to enhance its support to the court. \u2019This meets your mandate of ensuring respect for human and peoples\u2019 rights and gives self-confidence to the people of Africa for truth, progress and self-determination,\u2019\u2019 President Ghali told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}