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Actions pour la Protection des Droits de l'Homme (APDH) v. Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Afr. Ct. H.P.R.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

Marie Joseph Ayissi
Marie Joseph Ayissi*
Affiliation:
Marie Joseph Ayissi, Human Rights Officer, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at Geneva, currently a Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. The views expressed in the present introductory note are personal and do not necessarily reflect those of these two institutions.
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International Legal Materials , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , June 2017 , pp. 574 - 597
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Copyright © 2017 by The American Society of International Law 

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ENDNOTES

1 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights art. 5, June 10, 1998, available at http://www.achpr.org/instruments/court-establishment (“The Court may entitle relevant Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) with observer status before the Commission, and individuals to institute cases directly before it, in accordance with article 34 (6) of this Protocol”) [hereinafter Protocol to the African Charter]; African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, Rules of the Court, art. 33, available at http://en.african-court.org/images/Basic%20Documents/Final_Rules_of_Court_for_Publication_after_Harmonization_-_Final__English_7_sept_1_.pdf [hereinafter Rules of the Court].

2 Actions pour la Protection des Droits de l'Homme v. Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights [Afr. Ct. H.P.R.], ¶¶ 14–18 (Nov. 18, 2016), available at http://en.african-court.org/images/Cases/Judgment/JUDGMENT_APPLICATION%20001%202014%20_%20APDH%20V.%20THE%20REPUBLIC%20OF%20COTE%20DIVOIRE.pdf [hereinafter Judgment].

3 Protocol to the African Charter, supra note 1, art. 1 (“[T]he jurisdiction of the Court shall extend to all cases and disputes submitted to it concerning the interpretation and the application of the Charter, this Protocol and any other relevant Human Rights instrument ratified by the State concerned.”); Rules of the Court, supra note 1, art. 27. In addition, Rule 45(2) of the Rules of the Court authorizes the Court to seek an opinion, information, or a report from any person or institution of its choice.

4 The Court must ascertain that it has full jurisdiction even in the absence of an objection by the respondent state.

5 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶ 28.

6 For example, African Commission v. Libya, Application No. 002/2013, Judgment, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights [Afr. Ct. H.P.R.] ¶¶ 67–70 (June 3, 2016).

7 The Court had a similar reasoning in the following case: Consolidated Matter of the Tanganyika Law Society and Legal and Human Rights Centre v. The United Republic of Tanzania / Reverend Christopher R. Mtikila v. United Republic of Tanzania, Application Nos. 009/2011 and 011/2011, Judgment, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights [Afr. Ct. H.P.R.] ¶ 82.3 (June 14, 2013).

8 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶ 150.

9 Id. ¶ 132.

10 The Consolidated Matter of the Tanganyika Law Society and Legal and Human Rights Centre v. United Republic of Tanzania / Reverend Christopher R. Mtikila v. United Republic of Tanzania, Application Nos. 009/2011 and 011/2011, Judgment, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights [Afr. Ct. H.P.R.] (June 14, 2013).