65. The Court also notes that Article 2(3) of the ICCPR provides: States Parties to this Covenant undertake: a. To ensure that any person whose rights or freedoms as herein recognized are violated shall have an effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity; b. To ensure that any person claiming such a remedy shall have his right thereto determined by competent judicial, administrative or legislative authorities, or by any other competent authority provided for by the legal system of the State, and to develop the possibilities of judicial remedy; c. To ensure that the competent authorities shall enforce such remedies when granted. 66. The Court reiterates that this right requires States to put in place appeal mechanisms and take the necessary measures to facilitate the exercise of this right by individuals, particularly by communicating to them the judgments or decisions against which they wish to appeal.9 67. The Court refers to Article 1 of Law No. 2011-037 of 15 July 2011 on the judicial organization of Mali, which provides: Justice is rendered on the territory of the Republic of Mali by, among others, a Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, labour courts, etc. 68. The Court further notes, from the Applicants’ submissions on record, that the competent courts, at different levels of the Malian judiciary, namely, the Bamako Labour Court, the Bamako Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Mali, were seized by the Applicants and copies of the decisions rendered by these national courts are available in the record. 9 Mgosi Mwita Makungu v. United Republic of Tanzania (merits) (7 December 2018) 2 AfCLR 550, § 57. 16

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