ACHPR/RES.98(XXXIX)06: RESOLUTION ON THE APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSIONER AS MEMBER OF THE WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS/COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, meeting in its 40th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia, from 15 to 29 November 2006,
Considering that at its 28th Ordinary Session held in Cotonou, Benin in October 2000, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted a Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa providing for the establishment of a Working Group and defining its mandate;
Recalling the Resolution of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Adoption of the Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa, taken at its 34th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia, from 6 - 20 November, 2003 on the composition of the Group and specifying its mandate;
Bearing in mind the Resolution on the Composition and the Renewal of the Mandate of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa, taken at the 38th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia from 21 November - 5 December, 2005;
Taking into consideration the intensification of the activities of the Working Group and the need to boost its composition;
1. APPOINTS Commissioner Mumba Mallila as Member of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa.