Special focus : implementation of decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Abstract

This Special Focus is devoted to the implementation of decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission), the longest-standing African supranational human rights body with continental coverage. The nine articles in this Special Focus were presented as papers at a conference on the theme ‘Implementation and domestic impact of the decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’, held from 13 to 15 September 2023, in Pretoria, South Africa. The conference, organised by the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (Centre), in collaboration with the African Commission, provided a scholarly platform for scholars, practitioners and other stakeholders to address the critical gap between the issuance of decisions by the African Commission and their effective implementation at the national level. The editors of the Special Focus at the time were the director of the Centre, the co-manager of the Centre’s Litigation and Implementation Unit, and a post-doctoral fellow in that unit.