The African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights: A Comprehensive Agenda for Human Dignity and Sustainable Democracy in Africa

This work reveals the true dimension of the African Charter through a systematic analysis of its real or apparent innovations and a detailed assessment of the commitments of the States parties. It also analyzes the effectiveness of the mechanism put in place to monitor compliance with those commitments, examining the practice of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights from its establishment in 1987. It incorporates major recent achievements in the field of the protection of human rights in Africa, including the creation of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and the establishment of the African Union.
This work is the expanded and updated English version of La Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples – Une approche juridique des droits de l’homme entre tradition et modernité (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris).

Fatsah Ouguergouz holds a Doctorat ès Sciences Politiques (International Law) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. The author taught public international law for four years (1989-1992) at the faculty of Law in Geneva and was also Orville H. Schell Fellow at Yale Law School (New Haven). In 1992, he joined the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations (New York), as Associat Legal Officer, which post he left in 1994 to become Human Rights Officer in Rwanda. In 1995, he joined the staff of the Registry of the International Court of Justice (The Hague), firs as Legal Officer and currently as Secretary of the Court. He is the author of numerous publications and since 1993 has been Associate Editor of the African Yearbook of International Law.