sexual health and human rights in the african region - The ICHRP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS……………………………………………………….2
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY……………………………………………………….8
1 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY……………………………17
1.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………….17
1.2 Territorial Scope of the World Health Organization’s African Region…..17
1.3 Aims and Objectives…………………………………………………………...18
1.4 Criteria for Selecting Countries ………………………………………………18
1.5 African Regional Human Rights Systems…………………………………...21
1.6 African Charter-based human rights system………………………………..22
1.7 Arab Charter and Organization of Islamic Conference-based systems…..28
1.8 Sub-regional Economic Communities……………………………………….30
1.9 Economic Community of West African States………………………………31
1.10 Southern African Development Community………………………………..37
1.11 African Regional and Sub-regional Soft Law……………………………….42
1.12 Legal Pluralism and Conflict of Laws……………………………………….45
1.13 Customary Laws……………………………………………………………….45
1.14 Religious Laws…………………………………………………………………53
1.15 Limitations of the Study……………………………………………………….55
1.16 Structure of the Study………………………………………………………….56
1.17 Conclusions……………………………………………………………………..57
2 EQUALITY AND
NON-DISCRIMINATION………………...59
2.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………….59
2.2 Sex as a Protected Ground under African Charter-based under African
Charter-based Jurisprudence…………………………………………………59
2.3 African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights……………………………63
2.4 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child…………………...66
2.5 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the
Rights of Women in Africa……………………………………………………66
2.6 Domestication of African Charter in the African Region…………………..68
2.7 Sex as a Protected Ground under Domestic Jurisprudence……………….72
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