The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the promotion and protection of refugees' rights

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dc.contributor.authorMujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-01T07:58:34Z
dc.date.available2016-08-01T07:58:34Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractAfrican countries have been host to and have produced refugees for decades. These refugees have fled their countries for various reasons, including political and religious reasons. Many African countries are party to the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its additional Protocol of 1967. In 1969, the Organisation of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, the major instrument that deals with the rights and duties of refugees in Africa, was adopted to address, as the name suggests, the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa which were not addressed by the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has put in place various measures to promote and protect the rights of refugees in Africa. These measures include the organisation of seminars, seminar paper presentations by commissioners, the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, and adopting resolutions on the rights of refugees. The African Commission has also allied itself with various international human rights and humanitarian law organisations to protect the rights of refugees in Africa. It has protected the rights of refugees through its visits to different countries and through its decisions on individual communications. This article observes, inter alia, that, although the African Commission has entertained various communications dealing with the rights of refugees in Africa, the arguments of the parties to those communications as well as the decisions of the Commission have largely focused on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and not on the 1969 OAU Convention on Refugees. The author recommends that, in matters relating to refugee' rights, the African Commission should always invoke the provisions of the 1969 OAU Refugee Convention in addition to the African Charter and, where need be, reference should be made to other refugee-related instruments.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography of the Social Sciences
dc.identifier.citationMujuzi, J.D. (2009). The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the promotion and protection of refugees' rights. African Human Rights Law Journal, 9(1): 160-182en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-2096
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2360
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherPretoria University Law Press (PULP)en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
dc.source.urihttp://ref.scielo.org/v2jx8h
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectRefugeesen_US
dc.subjectUnited Nationsen_US
dc.subjectOrganisation of African Unityen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Commission on Human and Peoples' Rightsen_US
dc.subjectAsylum Seekersen_US
dc.titleThe African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the promotion and protection of refugees' rightsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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