Litigation and Implementation Unit Projects

Litigation

The Centre for Human Rights has been involved in different capacities in litigation before international, regional and sub-regional monitoring bodies.

Advocacy

The litigation and Implementation unit is involved in different advocacy activities that are geared towards strengthening the effectiveness of international human rights monitoring bodies

Database and commentary on the jurisprudence of the African court on human and peoples' rights

This database provides a commentary to the case law of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights with links to the paragraph of a judgment/decision discussing the issue.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights and democratic governance in Africa

This database is a compilation of regulations issued by African states in response to the COVID19 pandemic. The regulations database can be useful in analysing the human rights perspectives of COVID-19 responses of African countries.

Research on the impact of human rights treaties and human rights bodies

The litigation and Implementation Unit has been involved in a series of research that is aimed at documenting the impact of human rights treaties and human rights bodies on the ground.

Follow-up on implementation of human rights treaties & jurisprudence of human rights bodies

The CHR has engaged in different projects to raise awareness and improve the implementation of decisions of human rights bodies

Digital Verification Corps

The DVC is a project of Amnesty International in partnership with six global universities namely: the University of California Berkeley, University of Essex, University of Toronto, University of Cambridge, University of Hong Kong and the University of Pretoria.

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