Blogging from Tanzania

I spent the past week in Arusha, Tanzania attending a conference on the new African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. While both Europe and the Americas have regional human rights courts, the African Court is the first regional judicial body on the continent to cover human rights. It also has a particularly expansive mandate; the Court can make rulings based both on its founding document--the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights--and other international human rights documents signed by the state involved in a case before the Court. No other regional human rights court has such an expansive mandate. read more...