The Jurisdiction Of The African Commission On Human And Peoples Rights To Ensure Compliance Against Violation By Member States

This research has addressed the African regional human righlsrnsystem within th e ambit of the jurisdiction conferred upon thcrnCommission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Historically speaking,rnthe very fact lhat OAU / AU member countrics came to acceptrnuniform obligations lo observe provis ions en s hrined in the Charterrnis a s ignifica n t step towards the right direction. But given the poorrnhuman rights records of virtually most of the member states, thernCommission might have not found it easy to act as much as wha trnthe Ch arter seems to anticipate . The research has, therefore,rnin vcstigated the different circumstances in which member s tatesrnseemed to comply with the recommenda tions of the Commission.rnWhen they did that, it is found out that they did it only as a markrnof good faith and freely granted con sent.rnOn the olhcr hand, member statcs have shown thcir resista ncernwhe ncvcr they found the rccommcndation of the Commiss ionrncontrary to th eir interests and even prejudices, Thus, thernCommission appea red to be ha ndicapped to do as much asrnpossible. The n eed to have a supplementary mech a nism in order lornfollow up implemen tation of recommendations has been suggestedrnin these reasons. Further, the Commission n eeds to reconsider lhernexisting systems in which it determines what should be thernappropriate remedia l measures in human rights related cases.rnThese s u ggestions a re remedJl-based, among oth er things, on thernlessons derived from the workings of other multila teralrnorganizatio ns which a re considered very brieOy. However, due tornthe novelty of the th eme addressed in this rcsearch , my researchrneffort is initiated to be only on modcst contribution to the on -goingrndiscourse on the subject

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