Sentences with phrase «human and people»
Ms. Narancio has also acted in pro bono matters with the Media Legal Defence Initiative, notably representing Lohé Issa Konaté in the first freedom of expression case in the African Court on Human and People's Rights.
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On Friday, 3 June 2016, the firm's international arbitration and litigation practice obtained another significant judgment from the African Court of Human and People's Rights in Konaté v. Burkina Faso — the first freedom of expression case in the Court's history.
The UNFCCC would benefit from collaboration with human rights bodies, including UN bodies, such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; the United Nations Human Rights Council; human rights treaty bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of the Child; regional bodies, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and People's Rights; and non-governmental organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross.
He prayed the court to put on hold all processes to reclaim the money, until a determination of another related case being heard at the African Court of Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) in Tanzania.
Ghana's Supreme Court has rejected the order by the African Court of Human and People's Rights in Tanzania, asking it to halt proceedings leading to the retrieval of the Ghc51 million judgment debt wrongfully paid to businessman Alfred Woyome.
The group stated that with the action of the EFCC, the commission had breached the 1999 Constitution as amended and the African Charter on Human and the People's Right (gratification and enforcement) Act 2004.
But a statement from Lawyers of Mr. Woyome, while welcoming the ICC's decision said they had already advanced the case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights concerning some declarations made by Ghana's Supreme Court.
The Court would have the onus of also determining whether Luke and his security aides violated his client's fundamental rights of freedom of movement and from discrimination as guaranteed by relevant sections of the Constitution (1999) and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, amongst others.
In his written address, Inibehe Effiong, Counsel to Udo, is seeking to determine whether the assault and torture meted by the accused persons on his client, amount to «a breach on the applicant's fundamental human rights to dignity of his human person as guaranteed in section 34 (1)(a) of Nigeria's 1999 constitution (as mended), as well as the African Charter on Human and People's Rights».
YoHRA has come to stay to liberate Africans from the ignorance of their rights as is contained in the African Convention on Human and People's Rights.
In his Presentation, the Head of Legal of * YoHRA * Lawyer William Ayisi Otoo took participants through the relevant provisions in the African Charter on Human and People's Rights.
The African Commission on Human and People's Rights, ACHPR, has requested the Nigerian government to restrain from further actions against the leader of the Indigenous People...
Meanwhile, a statement issued by lawyers of the embattled Businessman indicates that his outfit had already advanced the case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights concerning some declarations made by the Supreme Court of Ghana.
Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has filed a fresh case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights after expressing dissatisfaction about the ruling of the International Chamber of Commerce on the GHc 51 million judgment debt paid wrongfully to him by the government of Ghana.
The Supreme Court of Ghana on Tuesday ignored an order made by the African Court for Human and People's Rights to halt efforts to retrieve 51.2 million cedis wrongfully paid to Alfred Agbesi Woyome.
What we asking the Attorney General to do is to review its position on this matter, it may too late in a few weeks time and we will not forgive him if he goes to make a mockery of the Ghanaian judicial system at the African Court of Human and People's Rights.
Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome says the Supreme Court can not «disobey» the ruling of the African court for Human and People's Right.
Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome is accusing Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame of propagating falsehood on Ghana's relationship with the African Court of Human and People's Rights.
Challenging the Supreme Court's order at the African Court on Human and People's Rights in Tanzania, the lawyers of Woyome said: «The contention of the applicant is that following from the earlier concurring opinion to the decision of the review bench, the court can not be said to have been impartial.»
He argued that there were many opportunities for Mr. Woyome to seek further legal remedies over claims of the violations of his human rights before heading to the African court on human and people's rights.
«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.
The Attorney General and the entire Government of Ghana are bound by law to obey the order of the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights.
Alfred Agbesi Woyome proceeded to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights when government began a valuation of his properties in an attempt to retrieve GH?
Mr. Woyome state «The Attorney General and the entire Government of Ghana are bound by law to obey the order of the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights; any violation of it will be unlawful under Ghanaian laws.»
Concurrently, the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights is working to attach an Optional Protocol to the African Charter for abolition.
«SERAP argues that a confession or prima facie evidence of grand corruption and the staggering effects of grand corruption fall within the Nigerians» right to know as guaranteed under the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights and the Freedom of Information Act.»
* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.
* A declaration that the arrest of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at his home at No. 14, Drive 1, Prince and Princess Estate, Abuja, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.
The case between Ghana and businessman, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome at the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights is set for...
In January 2006, she was elected one of the first judges of the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court and the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights were set up for this reason.
«Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking Article 40 read together with Article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR / Reg.
He was the first Chairperson of DHL, Ghana Limited; Chairperson, Kinesec Communications Company Limited, publishers of The Statesman and the first Chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and Peoples» Rights.
These included the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights; the 1999 Algiers Decision on Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Africa; the 2000 Lome Declaration on the Framework for an OAU Response to Unconstitutional Changes of Government; the 2002 OAU / AU Declaration on the Principles Governing Democratic Elections in Africa; and the 2002 Constitutive Act of the AU.
Lawyer Ayisi explained that the Charter is binding on African states because * The African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an International Human Rights Instrument that is intended to promote and protect Human Rights and basic freedoms on the African continent *
Buhari should press the summit to request the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights to urgently dispatch humanitarian teams to Libya to help those trapped there to leave the country in a safe and humane manner.»
«Apart from the Nigerian Constitution, article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 10 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights to which Nigeria is a state party guarantee the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.
He added that the enforcement of the charter rests in the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights, which was set up in 1987 and is now headquartered in Banjul, Gambia.
The African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights has made clear that the charter does not allow governments to «enact provisions which would limit the exercise of this freedom.»
The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»
The statement added that The Chairperson of African Union Commission, The Executive Secretary of African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights, All states Party to the Protocol and The Executive Council of the African Union, through the Chairperson of African Union Commission, have also been served the necessary processes.
Mr Woyome who claims his human rights has been abused and was occasioned by the Review Decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking article 40 read together with article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR / Reg.
Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights requesting «the urgent intervention of...
He claimed that his rights allegedly breached by the Senate were guaranteed by Section 39 of the Nigerian Constitution and Article 9 (2) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Right (Ratification and Enforcement) Act.
According to the applicant, his arrest and detention constituted a gross violation of an infringement upon his dignity, personal liberty, fair hearing and freedom of movement as enshrined and guaranteed under sections 34, 35, 36,41,46 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Articles 4,5,6 and 12 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.
He is also praying the court to declare that his continued detention is a violation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Charter of 1970.
Woyome proceeded to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights in November 2017 when government began a valuation of his properties in an attempt to retrieve GHC51 million wrongfully paid to him in a judgment debt.
He takes us from the analysis of largely non-justiciable constitutional provisions on socio - economic rights, through the commendable array of legislation in the field, to Nigeria's acceptance and ratification of international and regional standards such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.
The book includes five appendices: a snapshot of the socio - economic rights guaranteed by the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act and Chapter II of the Nigerian Constitution; a plethora of applicable national legislation that are not easily found, as well as international human rights and labour treaties to which Nigeria is a state party.
«Fairness, independence and impartiality of the Commission as required by Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights Cap A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are in doubt.