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The African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR) is an international and regional court in Africa.[1] It was founded in 2004 by a merger of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Court of Justice of the African Union. It is the primary judicial agency of the African Union.[2][3] It is the first regional court with international criminal jurisdiction.[4]
The court is based in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, as is the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as was its predecessor the Court of Justice of the African Union.
The court has two chambers, one for general legal matters and one for rulings on the human rights treaties. Within this the court has both an advisory opinion role and adjudicative role. The court is competent to interpret its own judgments in an appellate chamber.
- ^ The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "The African Court of Justice and Human Rights". www.africancourtcoalition.org. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ^ protocol on the statute of the african court of justice and Human Rights Archived June 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Art 2.
- ^ Ba, Oumar (2023). "Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha". Global Studies Quarterly. doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksad047.