Submission to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights

The C19 People’s Coalition welcomes the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights resolution ACHPR/Res. 447 (LXVI) 2020 to “report on declarations of state of emergency and state of disaster laws and practices in Africa to ensure that they comply with human and peoples’ rights standards under the African Charter”.

In this regard we provide the following inputs to the 68th Ordinary Session intersessional report on the matter of the COVID-19 Disaster Management in South Africa and South Africa’s adherence to its human rights obligations including in terms of its domestic law, the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, and other applicable international human rights standards… to continue reading click here