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A. ESTABLISHMENT
The AUCIL Members current composition is as follows:
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Agenda 2063 is the blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and sustainable development and is a concrete manifestation of the pan-African drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity pursued under Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, was appointed to lead the AU institutional reforms process. He appointed a pan-African committee of experts to review and submit proposals for a system of governance for the AU that would ensure the organisation was better placed to address the challenges facing the continent with the aim of implementing programmes that have the highest impact on Africa’s growth and development so as to deliver on the vision of Agenda 2063.
The AU offers exciting opportunities to get involved in determining continental policies and implementing development programmes that impact the lives of African citizens everywhere. Find out more by visiting the links on right.
The AUCIL Members serve as Special Rapporteur, wherein the AUCIL identify and prepare draft instruments and studies in areas which have not yet been regulated by international law in the African continent or been sufficiently developed in the practice of African States.
The Special Rapporteur shall perform such functions as may be assigned to him or her from to time by the plenary including:
Pursuant with Rule 4 of the Rules of Procedure of the Specialised Technical Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, the Special Technical Committees shall “consider studies and draft legal instruments developed by the [AUCIL]”. The AUCIL shall thereafter submit to the Assembly through the Executive Council.
The following studies have been or are being undertaken by the Special Rapporteurs:
Rapporteur |
Topic |
Prf. Blaise Tchikaya |
Preliminary study on the research and appropriate studies on the juridical basis of reparation for slavery and other related matters inflicted on the African continent (finalized) |
Dr. Mohamed Barakat |
Study on the immunities of State Officials under the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ongoing) |
Amb. Prof. Cheikh T. Thiam |
study, findings and recommendations on delimitation and demarcation of boundaries in Africa (ongoing) |
Am. Prof. Cheikh T. Thiam |
Study on the development of a continental legal framework on Migration in Africa (ongoing) |
Amb. Prof. Cheikh T. Thiam |
Study on an area of law with extensive state practice, precedent and doctrine among member states in Africa for codification (Principle on the intangibility of borders) (ongoing) |
Mr. Ebenezer Appreku |
Study, findings and recommendations on the revision of OAU/AU treaties (finalized) |
Amb. Juliet Semambo Kalema |
Promoting the teaching, study and dissemination of international law and African Union law in the African continent (ongoing) |
Prof. Hajer Gueldich |
Developing a Study and a draft Continental Convention on Avoiding Double Taxation (ongoing) |
Prof. Hajer Gueldich |
Development of an African Convention on Judicial Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (ongoing) |
Justice Naceesay Salla-Wadda |
Developing a Study and Draft Model Law for the domestication of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (ongoing) |
Prof. Boniface Obinna OKERE |
Developing a Study and Draft Model Law for the domestication of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ongoing) |
Mr. Rafaa Ben Achour |
Preliminary report on the study, findings and recommendations on the harmonization of ratification procedures in AU (finalized) |
Justice Kolisani Solo |
Preliminary study on working methods, competences, future programmes of work and strengthening the capacity of AUCIL (finalized) |
Amb. Menilik Alemu |
Draft AU model law for the implementation of the African Union convention for the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons in Africa (finalized) |
AUCIL has also provided legal opinions upon request on the following matters:
A. ESTABLISHMENT
The AUCIL Members current composition is as follows:
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period.