fundamental freedoms and human rights taking into account their universality, interdependence and indivisibility. 52.The African Union foregoing and described as Commission states in conclusion other provisions, the African “a relevant human rights that, Charter on instrument” in view Democracy which the of the may be Court has that the link jurisdiction to interpret and implement. 53.For its part, between the African democracy and international human Institute for International human rights has Law been notes established by several rights instruments, especially the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its Article 21(3) which provides that: “The will of the government; this people shall shall be be the expressed basis in of the periodic authority and of genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.” 54. The rights Institute also contends that the African Charter on Democracy is a human instrument individuals. in According the sense that it confers rights to the Institute, this Charter and explains, freedoms to interprets enforces the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Charter on Human and Rights, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the Grand Bay Declaration and Plan of Action (1999), the Declaration on the Principles Elections in Africa® and the Kigali Declaration of 2003. Charter also forms part of the continental human integrated Governing Democratic It declares that this rights architecture and into several decisions of the African Commission on Human is and Peoples’ Rights. According to the Institute, the said legal instruments should not be read separately but rather together. 5 AHD/Decl.9 (XXXVIII), 2002 14