African leaders launch new continental union
The organization will be disbanded Tuesday and replaced by the African Union, which will help promote democracy, human rights and development across Africa, its supporters say.
Date entered: 7/9/2002 9:49:56 AM
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The African Court on Human and Peoples Rights
The African system for the protection of human rights has recently taken on a new mechanism, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the establishment of an african court on human and peoples rightss was adopted on 9 june 1998.
Date entered: 7/9/2002 9:50:18 AM
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Summit Opens, African Leaders Give OAU State Funeral
The final summit of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) opened on Monday in the South African port city of Durban, with praise from African leaders who hailed the organization for ending the scourge of apartheid and colonialism on the continent.
Date entered: 7/9/2002 9:54:28 AM
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Lack of Cash Poses Biggest Problem in Fight Against Aids
On Barcelona's streets outside the Aids conference, treatment advocates, doctors and people with HIV/AIDS plan to stage "massive" protests. South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign chairman, Zackie Achmat, says that treatment advocates are also planning a "new pan-African treatment movement, demanding everything from vitamins to anti-retrovirals."
Date entered: 7/9/2002 9:55:27 AM
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African Union is a New Way of Working, Says Mbeki
We have to think and work in a new way. We have to make every effort to understand in a real way the challenging work ahead of us. We have to overcome the debilitating effect of inertia." The words of Thabo Mbeki, the South African president and inaugural leader of the African Union (AU) are both a leitmotif and a tall order for the new continental organization that will replace the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on Tuesday in Durban.
Date entered: 7/9/2002 10:02:19 AM
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