ANNEX STATUTE OF THE AFRICAN COURT OF JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS CHAPTER | GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1 Definitions In this Statute, except otherwise indicated, the following shall mean: “African Charter” means the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; “African Commission” means the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights; “African Committee of Experts” Rights and Welfare of the Child; means the African Committee of Experts on the “African Intergovernmental Organisations” means an organisation that has been established with the aim of ensuring socio-economic integration, and to which some Member States have ceded certain competences to act on their behalf, as well as other sub-regional, regional or inter-African Organisations; “African Non-Governmental Organizations” means Non-Governmental Organizations at the sub-regional, regional or inter-African levels as well as those in the Diaspora as may be defined by the Executive Council; “Agent” means a person mandated in writing to represent a party in a case before the Court; “Assembly” means the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Union; “Chamber(s)” Statute. means a Chamber established in accordance with Article 19 of the “Constitutive Act” means the Constitutive Act of the African Union; “Commission”: means the Commission of the Union; “Court” means the African Court of Justice and Human and chambers; Rights as well as its sections “Executive Council” means the Executive Council of Ministers of the Union;