Footnotes
1. The MIDH is an NGO based in Côte d’Ivoire and which enjoys observer status with the African Commission on
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Human and Peoples’ Rights since October 2001 (30 Ordinary Session).
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2. Côte d’Ivoire ratified the African Charter on 6 January 1992.8
3. Communications 147/95 and 149/96 Sir Dawda K. Jawara / The Gambia.
4. Communication 458/1991.
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5. Velasquez Rodriguez Case, Judgement of 29 July 1988, Inter-Am.Ct.H.R (Ser.C) No.4 (1988).
6. The Accord was concluded in April 2005 in Pretoria, South Africa.
7. This Accord was concluded at Marcoussis, France, in January 2003.
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9. Communication 102/93.
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10. CCCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.7, General Comment No. 25. Adopted by the Committee at its 1510 meeting (fiftyseventh session) on 12 July 1996.
11. Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 25, The Right to Participate on Public Affairs, Voting Rights,
and the Right of Equal Access to Public Service, UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.7 (1996), para. 15.
12. Communication 211/98.
13. See E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/20/Rev.1, paras. 32 and 27.
14. Ibid. Principles 18 and 25.
15. See Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 20 (44) on Article 7, para. 15
at www.unhcr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/view40?SearchView
16. Rodriguez v. Uruguay, Communication No. 322/1988, UN Doc. CCPR/C/51/D/322/1988 (1994).
17. See also: ; 83/92, 88/93, 91/93 Jean Y. Degli (on behalf of N. Bikagni), Union interafricaine des droits de
l’Homme, Commission internationale de juristes/Togo.
18. Guidelines and Measures for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading
Treatment or Punishment in Africa (Robben Island Guidelines), African Commission on Human and Peoples’
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Rights, 32 Session, 17-23 October 2002, Banjul, The Gambia. See also: .
19. Communications Nos. 54/91, 61/91, 98/93, 164/97 à 196/97, 210/98.
20. Communication 245/02.
21. See the African Commission’s Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in
Africa, para. C(d).