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JOURNAL OF UWC FACULTY OF LAW | ISSN 2077-4907 | Short URL www.ldd.org.za

FORUM CONTRIBUTION: Communications before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights 1988-2002

Volume: Volume 10(1) - 2006

Article type: Forum contribution

Author/s: Killander, Magnus

This article gives an overview of the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights with regard to individual communications from its first decision in 1988 until the end of 2002. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights was established in 1987 after the entry into force of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights in 1986.

The Commission received its first individual complaint in 1987 but did not take a decision on it until October 1988. By the end of 2002 the Commission had taken around 100 decisions on communications submitted to it under the individual communlcations procedure

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Magnus Killander

Researcher, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria

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