Mechanisms for the Implementation of Decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Abstract

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights issued its first decision on an individual communication in 1994. It is self-evident, however, that the potential for improvement in human rights protection held by such judgments and decisions can only be realized with implementation. Yet, there is very little written either in academic literature or policy documents and little available information at national or regional levels about what happens to decisions of the African Commission or other regional human rights organs once they have been published. These challenges provide the backdrop against which this article examines the potential for strengthening implementation mechanisms at both national and regional levels.

Depathologising diversity: Trans children and families' experiences of pathologisation in the UK

“…At the same time, it is important to recognise the risk of depathologisation narratives reinforcing and propagating ableism. Human rights scholars, including disabled and neurodiverse trans scholars, have emphasised the importance of upholding the rights of all people, including trans people with mental health, developmental or learning disabilities (Murray, 2019a). Anti‐trans actors attempt to challenge and dismiss trans rights, especially trans children's rights, based on an inaccurate claim that being trans is a mental illness (Thornton, 2021).…”