MEDIA ADVISORY

What: COMMEMORATION OF THE 2018 AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

When: 21 October 2018

Where: PARADISE SUITES HOTEL, 3 Paradise Beach Place, Off Bertil Harding Highway, Kololi, The Gambia.

Time: 9:00 am

Who: Participants will include representatives of:

 Citizens of the Gambia
 AU Member States and organs
 Diplomatic corps
 Civil Society Organizations
 Media
 UN agencies
 Academia and Researchers

Background: The Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU), in Article 3(h) provides a clear mandate on the promotion and protection of human and peoples’ rights on the continent. This mandate is further reinforced by the continental human rights instruments, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the establishment of African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR).
During its fifth (5th) Ordinary Session held in Benghazi, Libya in 1989, the ACHPR adopted Resolution ACHPR/Res.1(V)89 on the celebration of an African Day of Human and Peoples’ Rights. It is for this reason that Member States of the African Union commemorate 21 October of each year as the African Human Rights Day.

The overall goal of the commemoration is to, among other things, reflect on and recommit to the solemn declaration by the peoples and leaders of Africa on promotion and protection of human and people’s rights on the Continent.

The theme of the 2018 African Human Rights Day is “Fighting Corruption and Advancing Human Rights: Our Collective Responsibility”.

Representatives of the media are specially invited to cover the event.

For further inquiries, please contact:

Amb. Salah S. Hammad
Department of Political Affairs
African Union Commission
Email: HammadS@africa-Union.org Mr. Ikubaje John G.
Department of Political Affairs
African Union Commission
Email: Gbodij@africa-union.org

Dr. Mary Maboroke Mrs. Charity Nchimunya
Executive Secretary Executive Secretary
African Commission on Human African Union Advisory Board
and Peoples Rights, on Corruption
Banjul, The Gambia Arusha, Tanzania
Email: MaborekeM@africa-union.org Email: AUABCRegistry@auanticorruption.org

For further information:
Directorate of Information and Communication | African Union Commission I E-mail: DIC@africa-union.org I Website: www.au.int I Addis Ababa | Ethiopia

Follow us
Face book: https://www.facebook.com/AfricanUnionCommission
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_AfricanUnion
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AUCommission
Learn more at: http://www.au.int