A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

• Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights,
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,
and
• International Labour Organisation Plantations Convention (No. C110) (ratified on July 22,
1959 but denounced on Jan. 22, 1971),
• Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes
Against Humanity.
The Advocates makes the following recommendations with regard to Liberia’s international and
regional obligations:
• The Government should ratify or accede to the treaties mentioned above.
• The Government of Liberia should take all appropriate legislative and other measures to
ensure that the provisions of these treaties are fully reflected in domestic law and practice.
• The Government of Liberia should dedicate appropriate and sufficient resources to submit all
due and overdue periodic reports to the U.N. treaty bodies without delay. The Government of
Liberia should include in its reports to the treaty bodies appropriate information as required
by the treaty as well as the directions set forth in general comments and recommendations of
the treaty committees.
• The Government of Liberia should continue to work toward the full implementation of
the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in its 2004 Concluding
Observations and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its 2003
Concluding Observations.
• As a State Party to the African (Banjul) Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the
Government of Liberia is bound to submit a periodic report every two years, describing “the
legislative or other measures taken with a view to giving effect to the rights and freedoms
recognized and guaranteed by the present Charter.” 2 The Government of Liberia should
dedicate appropriate and sufficient resources to submit all due and overdue periodic reports
with regard to its compliance with the Banjul Charter.
• The Government of Liberia should dedicate appropriate and sufficient resources to submit
a report describing the legislative and other steps taken to give effect to the rights set forth
in the:
o Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of
Women in Africa in its report submitted under Art. 62 of the Banjul Charter; 3
o African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; 4
o African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, and; 5
o African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption, as required
through communications to the Advisory Board on Corruption. 6
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