Why the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Matters
Emerging from decades of debate on ways to curb impunity in Africa, crystallized by the Rwanda genocide and the wanton violence that marked the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone of the 1990s, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Court) was authorized by members of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1998. The African Court’s mission is to protect,…
