19 Rights of Women in Africa, or any other legal instrument relevant to human rights ratified by the States Parties concerned: a) State Parties to the present Protocol; b) the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights; c) the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; d) African organs; Intergovernmental Organizations accredited to the Union or its e) African National Human Rights Institutions; f) Individuals or relevant Non-Governmental Organizations accredited to the African Union or to its organs, subject to the provisions of Article 8 of the Protocol. Article 31 Applicable Law In carrying out its functions, the Court shall have regard to: a) The Constitutive Act; b) International treaties, whether general or particular, ratified by the contesting States; c) International custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law; d) The general principles of law recognized universally or by African States; e) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 1, of Article 46 of the present Statute, judicial decisions and writings of the most highly qualified publicists of various nations s well as the regulations, directives and decisions Union, as subsidiary means for the determination of the rules of law; f) of the Any other law relevant to the determination of the case. 2. This Article shall not prejudice the power of the Court to decide a case ex aequo et bono, if the parties agree thereto.