VI Africa
| Author | Gerd Oberleitner |
| DOI | 10.1177/016934419501300410 |
| Published date | 01 December 1995 |
| Date | 01 December 1995 |
NQHR
4/1995
10) Review training curricula for law enforcement agents to ensure that they adequately
cover proper treatment
of
suspects and detainees as well asrelations with the
community;
11) Exchange experiences on protection of human rightsat the nationallevel and,where
possible, cooperate in the developmentof lawenforcement agents and security forces
training or otherprogramsto reducethe potentialforhumanrightsviolations;
12) CallontheOASand theInter-AmericanDevelopment Bank to establishor to
reinforce programs, as appropriate,to support nationalprojectsforthe promotionand
observance of human rightsintheWestern Hemisphere;
13) Further strengthen the Inter-American Commission on HumanRightsandtheInter-
American Court
of
Human Rights.
VI AFRICA
Gerd Oberleitner
African Commission on Humanand Peoples'Rights
At its31stOrdinarySessionin AddisAbaba,26-28June1995, theAssembly
of
Heads
of
State and Government
of
theOADadopted the 8th Annual Activity Report
of
the
African Commission on Humanand Peoples'Rightssubmittedtothe Assemblyunder
Article 54
of
the African Charter andauthorisedits publication.TheActivityReport
covers theperiod1994-1995,duringwhichthe16th and17th sessionof theCommission
were heldinBanjul,the Gambia(25October -3 November 1994) andin Lome,Togo
(13-22 March1995). Beingthe mostimportantsourceof informationon theCommission's
activities the Annual ActivityReporthas a significantrole toplayin raisingawarenessof
the work
of
the Commission and informing the human rightscommunity thereon.
However, despite majorimprovements regarding the informationreleasedon
communications, the document stilldoes not meetthe standards
of
comparable reports
of
other human rights treaty bodies.
Annualreportson the activities
of
such bodies shouldaimat providing information
in fourmajorfields.First,the reportshouldfocus onactivitiesthat havebeenundertaken
by the Commission or byindividualCommissionersbetweenthesessions,such as
promotional work or fact finding missions. Secondly,the report should reflect the
discussions on organizational and other matters thatwere heldin thesessions in a
summarized form,soas to enablethereadertogain a pictureof thebackground
of
the
various decisionstheCommission has taken. Thirdly, the reportshould includedetailed
informationon theexaminationofState reports;and finallyinformationshouldbe
provided on communications brought before the Commission.
In all areas certain shortcomingscan be noticedin
the
8th Annual Activity Report
of
the African Commission. Between the16th and17th session,theCommissionwasengaged
in carrying out missions to severalAfricancountriesand hadtoreportat the17th session
that some
of
these countriesrefused to cooperate with the Commission (see NQHR 1995,
Vol. 13,
No.3).
Neither in the FinalCommuniques
of
the sessionsnorinthe8th Annual
Activity Reportcansufficientinformationbe foundon theoutcome
of
the successful
missionsandon the reasonsfor the failurein the othercases. In thefour lines the Activity
Reportdevotes tothisissue,noindicationcan befound
of
how the Commissionhas
reacted to the neglect shown bysomeStates parties tothe Chartertocooperate.Thus, the
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