REVUE : African Human Rights Yearbook / Annuaire africain des droits de l’homme (vol. 9, 2025)

Frans VILJOEN, Janet GBAM, Trésor MUHINDO MAKUNYA, Rui GARRIDO

The latest volume of the African Human Rights Yearbook / Annuaire africain des droits de l'homme (vol. 9, 2025) is out.

Acknowledgments / Remerciements / Agracedimentos
Editorial / Éditorial / Editorial

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ARTICLES FOCUSED ON ASPECTS OF THE AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM AND AFRICAN UNION HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS

ARTICLES PORTANT SUR LES ASPECTS DU SYSTÈME AFRICAIN DES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET LES NORMES DES DROITS DE L’HOMME DE L’UNION

ARTIGOS RELATIVOS A ASPECTOS DO SISTEMA AFRICANO DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS E DAS SUAS NORMAS DE DIREITOS HUMANOS DA ONU

Christian Balole Via, Pacifique Cirhuza Birindwa, Guillain Cirhuza Centwali, Vestiges du droit colonial et droits humains: combler le minimalisme judiciaire de la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples

Anna Cláudia Menezes Lourega Belli, Claudia Voigt Pisconti Machado, Rafael de Lima Kurschner, Building transregional standards: the African Commission’s Resolution 550, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the future of business and human rights 

Criss-Dess Dongar Bienvenu, Olivier Afogo Nouwagnon, Les recours en interprétation des arrêts de la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples 

Stacey Goliath, Kidfluencers in Africa: an emerging opportunity or an emerging concern for the evolving capacities of the African child? 

Damsou Kindé, La politique de justice transitionnelle de l’Union africaine et la nécessité d’intégrer l’approche genre dans les réparations au niveau national à l’aune de l’expérience de la Gambie, du Mali et de la Côte d’Ivoire 

Olalekan Moyosore Lalude, Organ trafficking in Africa and the role of the African human rights system in safeguarding human dignity, life and bodily integrity 

Bouyeh Mahamadou Sylla, Les fonds régionaux au profit des victimes d’atrocités de masse en Afrique 

Eugène Pascal Parfait Nkili Mbida, De Banjul à Arusha: plaidoyer pour une protection high-cost du droit des peuples à la libre disposition de leurs richesses et de leurs ressources naturelles

Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi, The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ power to review its decisions 

Petro Protas, Touching where it hurts? Revisiting the African Court judgments in relation to Tanzania’s restriction of direct access for individuals and NGOs 

Irene Nyakagere Thomas, The divergent jurisprudence of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the death penalty in Africa

 

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SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE AFRICAN UNION’S THEME FOR 2025: JUSTICE FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS

FOCUS SPÉCIAL SUR LE THÈME DE L’UNION AFRICAINE POUR L’ANNÉE 2025: JUSTICE POUR LES AFRICAINS ET LES PERSONNES D’ASCENDANCE AFRICAINE GRÂCE AUX RÉPARATIONS

SECÇÃO ESPECIAL RELATIVA AO TEMA DA UNIÃO AFRICANA PARA O ANO DE 2025: JUSTIÇA PARA OS AFRICANOS E AFRODESCENDENTES ATRAVÉS DAS REPARAÇÕES

Olalekan A. Bello, Olusegun Gbede, Justice, restoration and reparations: a Nigerian perspective on addressing the precolonial, colonial and post-colonial economic legacies 

Steve Tiwa Fomekong, Framing reparations for historical injustices: the normative and strategic potential of the African Union Transitional Justice Policy

Rui Garrido, Reparação das injustiças do passado: uma análise a partir do colonialismo 
Português 

Tsega Andualem Gelaye, Reparation for historical injustices committed during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia from 1935 to 1941: analysis of the prospect for success 

Matilda Lasseko-Phooko, Listening for silences in Algeria: eliminating the structural silencing of survivors of conflictrelated rape as entrenched in Africa during colonisation 357 

Noah Maringe, Nyasha Makuzwa, The unresolved land question in Zimbabwe: reparations for colonial injustices versus compensation to white farmers 378 

Justice Alfred Mavedzenge, The potential role of the International Court of Justice in advancing Africa’s reparatory justice agenda 

Mutoy Mubiala, Le droit à réparation des victimes des injustices historiques causées par l’esclavage et la colonisation 

Satang Nabaneh, Bongiwe Mahlangu, Baatseba Mothoa, Gaynel Curry, Ida Persson, From reparative to transformative justice: a Pan-African feminist reimagining of reparations in Africa and the diaspora 

Rizzan Nassuna, Enhancing access to reparatory justice for women: the role of African human rights bodies 

Cecilia Ngaiza, Dispensing justice through reparations: benchmarking the decision of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Ogiek case in protecting indigenous peoples’ right to development in Tanzania 

Nfor N. Nde Nyambi, Africa’s silent crime: towards recognising ecocide under the Malabo Court Protocol  

Michael C. Ogwezzy, African continental reparations framework and strategies for compensation for the European slave trade, colonial exploitations and injustices

Jonas Kakule Sindani, Réparer le passé colonial au prisme des initiatives judiciaires et extra-judiciaires nationales : réflexion prospective à partir de l’exemple belge

Patrick Toussaint, Krishnee Adnarain Appadoo, Reparative justice and the colonial continuum: towards a Pan-African Research and Policy Agenda on Climate Reparations

 

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CASE COMMENTARIES

COMMENTAIRES DE DÉCISIONS

COMENTÁRIOS À JURISPRUDÊNCIA 

Junior Mumbala Abelungu, La contribution du Comité africain d’experts sur les droits et le bienêtre de l’enfant dans le processus de réparation des injustices historiques: cas des enfants d’ascendance nubienne au Kenya 

Catherine Maia, Aklesso Jacques Akpe, A questão da responsabilidade internacional do Ruanda pelas atividades armadas no território da República Democrática do Congo: reflexões jurídicas sobre um contencioso em curso perante o Tribunal Africano dos Direitos Humanos e dos Povos 

Christopher Nyinevi, Ezekiel Osei, Protecting intellectual property through a human rights approach: jurisprudential missteps and missed opportunities in the ECOWAS Court’s decision in Solomon Ekolama v Nigeria

Cajetan Osisioma, Extraordinary rendition and obligations of Nigeria under international law: the trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu