An Arusha-based World Court on Human Rights for African States?

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Dr Mando Rachovitsa is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Groningen. Her current research interests revolve around judicial dispute settlement, treaty interpretation, international human rights law as well as the role of international law in regulating aspects of cyberspace.

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An Arusha-based World Court on Human Rights for African States?

November 7, 2019

Mando Rachovitsa

The Arusha-based African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) enjoys a distinctively broad contentious jurisdiction extending to ‘all cases and disputes submitted to it concerning the interpretation and application of the Charter, this Protocol and any other relevant Human Rights instrument ratified by the States concerned’ (Article 3(1) of the Protocol to the African Charter on…