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Joint Press Release ACERWC-ACHPR over the Ongoing Debate on Female Genital Mutilation in The Gambia

Joint Press Release ACERWC-ACHPR over the Ongoing Debate on Female Genital Mutilation in The Gambia

Sep 14 2023

Expression of Concern by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child over the Ongoing Debate on Female Genital Mutilation in The Gambia

 

Banjul and Maseru, 14 September 2023

Press Release Sierra Leone Mission
Aug 11 2023

The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child has just concluded its follow-up mission in the Republic of Sierra Leone

Press Release: ACERWC’s Advocacy Mission to the Republic of South Sudan for the Ratification of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Apr 20 2023

The ACERWC concluded its advocacy mission in South Sudan for the ratification of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The mission was held from April 12 to 14, 2023.

Press Release: Workshop on the implementation of decisions and recommendations of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC/Committee) with NHRIs and CSOs, 23-24 February, Nairobi, Kenya
Feb 24 2023

Workshop on the implementation of decisions and recommendations of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC/Committee) with NHRIs and CSOs, 23-24 February, Nairobi, Kenya

The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (Committee) organized a Workshop on the Implementation of Decisions and Recommendations with NHRIs and CSOs on 23-24 February, in Nairobi Kenya.

Overview of the Situation of Children's Rights in Africa and activities of the ACERWC
Feb 16 2023

Press Conference

Overview of the Situation of Children's Rights in Africa and activities of the ACERWC

11:00-12:00 | Briefing Room 3

17th Feb 2023

 

Decision on the merits of Communication No: 0012/Com/001/2019 Legal and Human Rights Centre and Centre for Reproductive Rights (on behalf of Tanzanian girls) against the United Republic of Tanzania
Sep 15 2022

The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
has just released its Decision on the merits of Communication No: 0012/Com/001/2019

Press Statement on the occasion of the 33rd Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union
Feb 09 2020

Press Statement on the occasion of the 33rd Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union

The African Commission and the ACERWC call on the AU Assembly to mobilize greater effort for silencing the guns based on human and peoples’ rights in Africa and to declare 2021 a year for collective action for addressing the threat of climate
crisis in Africa to human and peoples’ rights.

Press Release: Fact-finding mission in the Republic of Malawi to assess the situation of children with albinism.
Feb 04 2022

31 August 2022- Lilongwe Drawing its mandate from the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which empowers the ACERWC to resort to any appropriate method of investigating any matter falling within the ambit of the Charter, the ACERWC has concluded its mission in the Republic of Malawi to assess the situation of children with albinism. The mission was held on 29-31 August 2022 and was done under the auspicious of the Working Group of the ACERWC on Children with Disabilities.

Joint Retreat of ACHPR-ACERWC-AfCHPR
Jan 26 2022

The African Union Human Rights Organs namely the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR), the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), and the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (AfCHPR) are holding a retreat of legal officers of the three organs from 26-28 January, in Maputo, Republic of Mozambique, to brainstorm and exchange views on pertinent and substantive issues of common interests.

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