designed to protect human beings and not remains of humans. The treatment of human corpses is at best a question of Ethics and morality, which should be dealt with in private or criminal law. Therefore, the Committee concludes that all the allegations of the Complainants relating to the postmortem treatment of the Children do not relate to the rights and welfare of the child under the Provisions of the Charter. 19. The Committee notes that the Communication is not strictly limited to the abuse of the children’s bodies postmortem, albeit that is the main focus. The facts of the case include scattered allegations of lack of professionalism leading to the death of the children in Catholic Hospital Notre Dame de l’Amour. The Complainants allege that the person on duty was not a doctor but a nurse and was not able to properly diagnose the children, resulting in their death. 20. The Committee notes that at the admissibility stage complainants are not required to provide detailed arguments on the alleged violations, however, in order to comply with the requirement of compatibility stipulated in the provisions of the Charter under Section IX (1) (A) of the Revised Communication Guidelines, the applicants have to establish a prima facie violation of the right. In the same manner, the African Commission has interpreted compatibility with the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to mean that “the communication must reveal a prima facie violation of the Charter”5 21. In the case at hand, the complainants did not adequately explain the facts of the case in light of article 14 of the Charter in order to establish a prima facie violation of the provision. Furthermore, under the allegation of article 14, the Complainants stress on the need to establish jurisprudence on dead children without explaining how it is connected to article 14. Even though article 14 of the Charter provides various protections relating to the right to health of the child, the Complainants fail to establish a prima facie violation of the right in conjunction with the facts of the case in accordance with the provision of the charter and to substantiate such allegation. 22. The Complainants further allege a violation of article 44 of the Charter, which is a procedural provision on the mandate of the Committee to receive Communications. This allegation does not relate to the rights ad welfare of the Child under the Charter. Moreover the facts under this allegation are related to the action taken at the High Court of Wouri in Duala and the cause of death of the Children, which are not related to the general provision of the Charter under article 44 that bestows the mandate to receive Communications to the Committee. 23. Section IX Article 1(d) of the Revised Communication Guidelines provides that the author of a communication should exhaust all available and accessible local remedies before it brings the matter to the Committee, unless it is obvious that 5 Mouvement Ivoirien des Droits Humains (MIDH) v Côte d’Ivoire (2008) AHRLR 75 (ACHPR 2008) para 44. 6

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