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Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA)

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Gambia

Promoting the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR at the African Commission

In partnership with the Working Group on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), the NGO Coalition for the Optional Protocol to the...

Apr

2016

The role of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on ESCR in advancing equality and human rights for all

Panel on the role of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on ESCR in advancing equality and human rights for all.

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New report on the 'CSO Outreach Workshop on Accountability' in Banjul

Conscience International (CI-The Gambia) has recently published a report on the “CSO Outreach Workshop on Accountability" in Banjul, which was co-facilitated...

Apr

2015

Advancing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR):The Role of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on ESCR in Securing Access to Justice.

Welcome: Ivahanna Larrosa, NGO Coalition for the OP-ICESCR

Moderator: Dr. Mabassa Fall, FIDH Representative to the African Union

Keynote Speaker: Commissioner Mahamed Khalfallah, Chair of Working Group on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights-ACHPR...

Fostering the OP-ICESCR ratification campaign at the African Commission on Human and People's rights

In anticipation of the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) on 5 May 2015, the NGO Coalition for the OP-ICESCR attended the 56th...

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS)

Country:

Gambia

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OP-ICESCR

Purohit and Moore v. The Gambia. Cited as: Communication No. 241/2001, Sixteenth Activity report 2002-2003, Annex VII

The applicants alleged, amongst other things, that the legislative regime in The Gambia for mental health patients violated the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health (Article 16) and the right of the disabled to special measures of protection in keeping with their physical and moral needs (Article 18(4)). Both rights are guaranteed in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.