DECISION ON THE 2010 ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE AFRICAN COURT ON
HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS
Doc. EX.CL/650(XVIII)
The Executive Council,
1. TAKES NOTE of the Report of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) and the recommendations of the PRC thereon;
2. ALSO TAKES NOTE WITH APPRECIATION of the activities undertaken by the AfCHPR during the period under review;
3. EXPRESSES ITS APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE to Tanzania for its efforts in providing a building to the Court for its permanent Seat and ENCOURAGES Tanzania to accelerate the process;
4. INVITES the States Parties to the Protocol which have not yet done so to make a special Declaration authorizing individuals and NGOs to submit cases to the Court after duly exhausting all available local remedies;
5. REQUESTS the PRC and its relevant Sub-Committees to consider the structural and budgetary proposals;
6. STRESSES the need to accelerate the ratification of the Protocol on the African Court as well as the processes on the Protocol on the merged African Court of Justice and Human Rights;
7. STRESSES ALSO the need to accelerate the process of empowering the African Court to be seized with cases of crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of genocide.