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FURTHER
REITERATING
condemnation
and
rejection
their
of
respect
impunity
for
and
the
sanctity
political
of
human
assassination,
acts
life,
of
terrorism and subversive activities, unconstitutional changes of governments and
acts of aggression;
FURTHER REITERATING their commitment to fighting impunity in conformity
with the provisions of Article 4(0) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union;
ACKNOWLEDGING the pivotal role that the African Court of Justice and Human
and Peoples’ Rights can play in strengthening the commitment of the African
Union to promote sustained peace, security and stability on the Continent and to
promote justice and human and
promote the objectives of the
peoples’ rights as an aspect of their efforts to
political and socio-economic integration and
development of the Continent with a view to realizing the ultimate objective of a
United States of Africa;
FURTHER
by
the
RECALLING Assembly Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.213 (XII) adopted
Twelfth
Ordinary
Session
of the
Assembly
in Addis
Ababa,
Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, on 3 February 2009 on the implementation of
the Assembly's Decision on the Abuse of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction;
FURTHER
RECALLING
Assembly
Decision
Assembly/AU/Dec.263
(xXIll)
adopted by the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sirte, Libya, on 3
July 2009 on the transformation of the African Union Commission to the African
Union Authority;
FURTHER RECOGNIZING the need to take the necessary measures to amend
the legal instruments of the principal organs of the African Union in the light of the
aforementioned Assembly Decisions;
CONVINCED that the present Protocol will complement national, regional and
continental bodies and institutions in preventing serious and massive violations of
human
and peoples’ rights in keeping with Article 58 of the Charter and ensuring
accountability for them wherever they occur;
HAVE AGREED to adopt the present amendments to the Protocol on the Statute
of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights and the Statute annexed
thereto as follows: -