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Title | Date added | Template | Body | Legal status | Document type | Year | Document code | Original document | Paragraph text | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) | Aug 19, 2019 | Document | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2009 | |||||||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa | Aug 19, 2019 | Document | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2003 | |||||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | Aug 19, 2019 | Document | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2007 | |||||||
African Youth Charter | Aug 19, 2019 | Document | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2006 | |||||||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Chairperson of the Commission shall inform all Member States of the signature, ratification, accession, entry into force, reservations, requests for amendments and approvals thereof; |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Proposals for amendment or revision shall be submitted to the Chairperson of the Commission who shall transmit same to State Parties within thirty (30) days of receipt thereof; |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall institutionalize good economic and corporate governance through, inter alia: Enabling legislative and regulatory framework for private sector development; |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall institutionalize good economic and corporate governance through, inter alia: Equitable allocation of the nation’s wealth and natural resources; |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In order to advance political, economic and social governance, State Parties shall commit themselves to: Harnessing the democratic values of the traditional institutions; and |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In order to advance political, economic and social governance, State Parties shall commit themselves to: Undertaking regular reforms of the legal and justice systems; |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall encourage conclusion of bilateral extradition agreements as well as the adoption of legal instruments on extradition and mutual legal assistance. |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall ensure that citizens enjoy fundamental freedoms and human rights taking into account their universality, interdependence and indivisibility. |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The objectives of this Charter are to: Enhance cooperation between the Union, Regional Economic Communities and the International Community on democracy, elections and governance; and |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “Charter” means the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance; |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “Assembly” means the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union; |
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “African Peer Review Mechanism” APRM means the African Peer Review Mechanism; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. n | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every young person shall have responsibilities towards his family and society, the State, and the international community. Youth shall have the duty to: n) Become the vanguard of re-presenting cultural heritage in languages and in forms to which youth are able to relate; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. m | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every young person shall have responsibilities towards his family and society, the State, and the international community. Youth shall have the duty to: m) Promote, preserve and respect African traditions and cultural heritage and pass on this legacy to future generations; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every young person shall have responsibilities towards his family and society, the State, and the international community. Youth shall have the duty to: k) Encourage a culture of voluntarism and human rights protection as well as participation in civil society activities; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall take all appropriate steps to eliminate harmful social and cultural practices that affect the welfare and dignity of youth, in particular; a) Customs and practices that harm the health, life or dignity of the youth; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | States Parties shall recognise the right of young people to live anywhere in the world. In this regard, they shall: d) Establish structures that encourage and assist the youth in the diaspora to return to and fully re-integrate into the social and economic life in Africa; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. Recognise the right of young people to be free from hunger and shall take individual or collective measures to: d) Facilitate access to credit to promote youth participation in agricultural and other sustainable livelihood projects; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 3c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. The education of young people shall be directed to: c) Preparing young people for responsible lives in free societies that promote peace, understanding, tolerance, dialogue, mutual respect and friendship among all nations and across all groupings of people; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 3b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. The education of young people shall be directed to: b) Fostering respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms as set out in the provisions of the various African human and people's rights and international human rights declarations and conventions; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Every State Parties shall develop a comprehensive and coherent national youth policy.
j) National programmes of action shall be developed that are time bound and that are connected to an implementation and evaluation strategy for which indicators shall be outlined; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. States Parties shall take the following measures to promote active youth participation in society: They shall: f) Institute measures to professionalize youth work and introduce relevant training programmes in higher education and other such training institutions; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. States Parties shall take the following measures to promote active youth participation in society: They shall: e) Provide access to information such that young people become aware of their rights and of opportunities to participate in decision-making and civic life; |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. Every young person shall have the freedom to seek, receive and disseminate information and ideas of all kinds, either orally, in writing, in print, in the form of art or through any media of the young person's choice subject to the restrictions as are prescribed by laws. |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. State Parties shall undertake the necessary steps, in accordance with their Constitutional processes and with the provisions of the present Charter, to adopt such legislative or other measures that may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of the Charter. |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: l) Strengthen local, national, regional and international partnerships to eradicate the demand, supply and trafficking of drugs including using youth to traffic drugs; |
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