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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2d
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall in particular: d) Provide induction programmes for imprisoned youth that are based on reformation, social rehabilitation and re-integration into family life;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2e
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall in particular: e) Make provisions for the continued education and skills development of imprisoned young people as part of the restorative justice process.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2f
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall in particular: f) Ensure that accused and convicted young people are entitled to a lawyer.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- RECALLING that women's rights have been recognised and guaranteed in all international human rights instruments, notably the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and all other international and regional conventions and covenants relating to the rights of women as being inalienable, interdependent and indivisible human rights;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 1. Every young person shall have the right to social, economic, political and cultural development with due regard to their freedom and identity and in equal enjoyment of the common heritage of mankind.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1h
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 1. Every State Parties shall develop a comprehensive and coherent national youth policy. h) The policy shall be adopted by parliament and enacted into law;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties shall: Recognise the right of young people to a standard of living adequate for their holistic development.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 1. Every young person shall have the right to education of good quality.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1c
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties shall take the following steps to promote and protect the morals and traditional values recognised by the community: c) Establish institutions and programmes for the development, documentation, preservation and dissemination of culture;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- Cognizant of the historical and cultural conditions in Africa;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- Concerned about the unconstitutional changes of governments that are one of the essential causes of insecurity, instability and violent conflict in Africa;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- Determined to promote and strengthen good governance through the institutionalization of transparency, accountability and participatory democracy;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall commit themselves to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of women and men through public education, information, education and communication strategies, with a view to achieving the elimination of harmful cultural and traditional practices and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes, or on stereotyped roles for women and men.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. e
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “Commission” means the Commission of the Union;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. f
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “Constitutive Act” means the Constitutive Act of the Union;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. h
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “Member States” means the Member States of the African Union;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. j
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- In this Charter, unless otherwise stated, the following expressions shall have the following meaning: “NEPAD” means the New Partnership for Africa’s Development;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- State Parties shall recognize popular participation through universal suffrage as the inalienable right of the people.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- State Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure constitutional rule, particularly constitutional transfer of power.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- State Parties undertake to design and implement social and economic policies and programmes that promote sustainable development and human security.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 1
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- State Parties shall entrench the principle of the supremacy of the constitution in the political organization of the State.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 10
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- State Parties shall institutionalize good economic and corporate governance through, inter alia: Developing tax policies that encourage investment;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 11
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- State Parties shall institutionalize good economic and corporate governance through, inter alia: Preventing and combating crime;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- State Parties shall decentralize power to democratically elected local authorities as provided in national laws.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 5
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- The amendments or revisions shall enter into force when approved by two-thirds majority of State Parties.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 2
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- States Parties shall devise early warning systems, in the context of the continental early warning system, in areas of potential displacement, establish and implement disaster risk reduction strategies, emergency and disaster preparedness and management measures and, where necessary, provide immediate protection and assistance to internally displaced persons;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 6
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- States Parties shall provide sufficient protection and assistance to internally displaced persons, and where available resources are inadequate to enable them to do so, they shall cooperate in seeking the assistance of international organizations and humanitarian agencies, civil society organizations and other relevant actors. Such organizations may offer their services to all those in need.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 7
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- States Parties shall take necessary steps to effectively organize, relief action that is humanitarian, and impartial in character, and guarantee security. States Parties shall allow rapid and unimpeded passage of all relief consignments, equipment and personnel to internally displaced persons. States Parties shall also enable and facilitate the role of local and international organizations and humanitarian agencies, civil society organizations and other relevant actors, to provide protection and assistance to internally displaced persons. States Parties shall have the right to prescribe the technical arrangements under which such passage is permitted.
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 2b
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- States Parties shall: b. Provide internally displaced persons to the fullest extent practicable and with the least possible delay, with adequate humanitarian assistance, which shall include food, water, shelter, medical care and other health services, sanitation, education, and any other necessary social services, and where appropriate, extend such assistance to local and host communities;
- Body
- Regional bodies: African Union
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph