The Organisation of African Unity was established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Abeba. It was disbanded on 9 July 2002 and replaced by the African Union.
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights emerged under the aegis of the Organisation of African Unity.
Oversight and interpretation of the Charter is the task of the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights, which was set up in 1987 and is headquartered in Banjul, Gambia. A protocol to the Charter was adopted in 1998 whereby an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights was to be created. The Court was set up in 2006, and delivered its first judgment in 2009. Its seat is in Arusha, Tanzania.
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
HEIBR 2956
Charte Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples
HEIBR 2959
Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (1987-2007)
(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001-, 2 vol.)
342.7(6) HEIA 47885
Compendium of Key Human Rights Documents of the African Union / edited by Christof Heyns and Magnus Killander
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2010)
342.7(6) HEIA 90044
