African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

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The Zoe Tembo Building on the Bertil Harding Highway

The African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) ( German  African Center for Democracy and Studies for Human Rights ) is an organization that conducts political research and offers training.

The research focus is on democracy and the implementation of human rights in Africa. Workshops and forums are held for this purpose. The headquarters are in Kerr Seringe near Kololi ( Gambia ), in the Zoe Tembo Building, inaugurated in 2001 on the Bertil Harding Highway . Hannah Forster has been Executive Director since 2001 .

history

The excesses of some African leaders in the 1970s who tried to cling to power by violating human rights led the Organization for African Unity (OAU) to act. In July 1979 a resolution was passed which led to the drafting of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights . The Charter, also known as the “Banjul Charter”, was adopted in 1981 and came into force in 1986.

It then became apparent that explanations and training were necessary for the implementation of the charter. On the initiative of Hassan Bubacar Jallow , this marked the birth of the African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies. Raymond Sock became the first director .

In 1994 a new statute was passed that reorganized the status as a non-governmental organization (NGO). Zoe Tembo from Zambia became the new director and died in 2001.

List of directors

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ African Development Information Services - African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies ( Memento of May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed September 2008
  2. ↑ http://www.acdhrs.org/contact/
  3. ↑ ACDHRS 'Zoe Tembo This, Hannah Forster Appointed Successor , The Daily Observer in March 2001

Coordinates: 13 ° 26 '31.9 "  N , 16 ° 43' 7.8"  W.