PRESS STATEMENT CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WELCOMES THE COMING INTO FORCE OF THE AFRICAN DISABILITY PROTOCOL 3 October 2024 The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, welcomes the coming into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa (African Disability Protocol), which came into force on 3. [...] Complementing the CRPD The African Disability Protocol complements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) insofar as it addresses the unique African context. [...] Adopted by the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU Heads of States, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 29th January 2018, ten years after CRPD came into force on 3 May 2024, the Protocol is the culmination of decades of advocacy by the African Disability Rights Movement which sought a home-grown disability-specific instrument addressing African realities. [...] Article 34(1) of the Protocol stipulates that Member States should ensure the implementation of this Protocol, and indicate in their periodic reports submitted to the African Commission in accordance with Article 62 of the African Charter, the legislative and other measures undertaken for the full realisation of the rights recognized in this Protocol. [...] Therefore, the Centre urges Member States who have not yet ratified the Protocol to do so without delay in order to ensure the protection of the rights of all persons with disabilities on the continent.
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- The Centre for Human Rights Faculty of Law University of Pretoria welcomes the coming into force 1
- Disabilities in Africa African Disability Protocol which came into force on 3 May 2024 following the 1
- African Union AU Member States that have ratified the African Disability Protocol include Angola 1
- Burundi Cameroon Republic of Congo Kenya Mali Malawi Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Niger 1
- Rwanda South Africa Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Uganda. The Protocols entry into 1
- Complementing the CRPD 1
- The African Disability Protocol complements the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with 1
- Disabilities CRPD insofar as it addresses the unique African context. Adopted by the 30th Ordinary 1
- Session of the Assembly of the AU Heads of States held in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on 29th January 1
- 2018 ten years after CRPD came into force on 3 May 2024 the Protocol is the culmination of 1
- Together the CRPD and the African Disability Protocol hold the potential to bring about the required 2
- A call to action 2
- Despite the African Disability Protocol having come into force practical social change remains 2
- States should ensure the implementation of this Protocol and indicate in their periodic reports 2
- Protocol. Article 342 further requires States Parties to establish or designate national mechanisms 2
- Wider ratification required 2
- Although the coming into force of the African Disability Protocol is indeed an achievement worth 2
- Protocol. In order to promote protect and fulfil the rights of all persons with disabilities in Africa the 2
- Member States who have not yet ratified the Protocol to do so without delay in order to ensure the 2
- For more information please contact 2
- Dr Dianah Msipa 2
- Manager Disability Rights Unit 2
- Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria 2
- Tel 27 012 420 6398 2
- Email dianah.msipaup.ac.za 2
