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Principles and Guidelines on Human and Peoples’ Rights while Countering Terrorism in Africa (Afr. Comm'n Hum. & Peoples’ Rts.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Cecilia M. Bailliet
Cecilia M. Bailliet*
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Cecilia M. Bailliet is Professor at PluriCourts/Department of Public & International Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
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International Legal Materials , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 448 - 492
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Copyright © 2017 by The American Society of International Law 

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1 See The 628th meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council on Counter-Terrorism and Counter Violent Extremism in Africa (Sept. 28, 2016), at http://www.peaceau.org/en/article/the-628th-meeting-of-the-au-peace-and-security-council-on-counter-terrorism-and-counter-violent-extremism-in-africa.

2 See African Union Peace and Security, AU Appoints Mr. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey of Ghana as Special Representative in Charge of Counter-Terrorism Cooperation and Director of ACSRT (Mar. 18, 2016), at http://www.peaceau.org/en/article/au-appoints-mr-larry-gbevlo-lartey-of-ghana-as-special-representative-in-charge-of-counter-terrorism-cooperation-and-director-of-acsrt.

3 For an overview of human rights in Africa, see Frans Viljoen, International Human Rights Law in Africa (2012).

4 OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism, July 14, 1999, at http://www.peaceau.org/uploads/oau-convention-on-the-prevention-and-combating-of-terrorism.pdf. The Algiers Convention calls upon states to criminalize terrorist acts under their national laws and sets forth a legal framework for extradition, extraterritorial investigation, and mutual legal assistance. The Convention entered into force in December 2002 and forty states have ratified it. The Protocol (2004) to Reports by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism addresses the links between terrorism, narco-trafficking, transnational organized crime, money laundering, and the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons. https://www.au.int/en/treaties/protocol-oau-convention-prevention-and-combating-terrorism (visited Apr. 19, 2017). It entered into force in 2014 and has been ratified by only fifteen states. On the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, see Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Terrorism/Pages/SRTerrorismIndex.aspx.

5 See, e.g., Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum v. Zimbabwe, 245/02 (African Commission on Human and People's Rights May 15, 2006), at http://www.achpr.org/communications/decision/245.02/.

6 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Report on Terrorism and Human Rights, Organization of American States, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.116, Doc. 5 rev. 1 corr. (Oct. 22, 2002), at http://www.cidh.org/terrorism/eng/toc.htm; Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, Guidelines on Human Rights and the Fight Against Terrorism, H (2002) 4 (July 11, 2002), at http://www.coe.int/t/dlapil/cahdi/Source/Docs2002/H_2002_4E.pdf.

7 Amnesty International, Africa: Malabo Protocol: Legal and Institutional Implications of the Merged and Expanded African Court, AFR 01/3063/2016 (Jan. 22, 2016), at https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr01/3063/2016/en/.