Network of African National Human Rights Institutions
The Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) is one of four regional groupings within the global network, the International Co-ordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC). NANHRI promotes the establishment of national human rights institutions throughout Africa, and supports co-operation and training to strengthen and develop the monitoring, promotion, protection and advocacy work of African NHRIs.
Members
Map showing all International Coordinating Committee members, not only those from Africa:
NHRI full members, class A
NHRI associate members, class B
NHRI members, class C
NHRI suspended members
The following NANHRI members are (as of 30 May 2010) accredited with full "A status" by the ICC, hence deemed to be fully compliant with the Paris Principles:
- Egypt
- National Council for Human Rights (Egypt)
- Ghana
- Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice CHRAJ
- Kenya
- Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR)
- Malawi
- Malawi Human Rights Commission
- Mauritius
- National Human Rights Commission (Mauritius)
- Morocco
- Human Rights Advisory Council (Morocco)
- Namibia
- Office of the Ombudsman (Namibia)
- Niger
- Nigerien National Commission on Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties
- Rwanda
- National Commission for Human Rights (Rwanda)
- Senegal
- Senegalese Committee for Human Rights
- South Africa
- South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC)
- Tanzania
- Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (Tanzania)
- Togo
- National Human Rights Commission (Togo)
- Uganda
- Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC)
- Zambia
- Permanent Human Rights Commission (Zambia)
The following NANHRI members are (as of 30 May 2010) do not have full "A status":
- Algeria
- National Human Rights Commission of Algeria
- Angola
- Provedor de Justiça e de direitos (Angola)
- Bénin
- Bénin Human Rights Commission
- Burkina Faso
- National Human Rights Commission of Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms
- Chad
- Chad National Human Rights Commission
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- National Human Rights Observatory (DR Congo)
- Republic of the Congo
- National Human Rights Commission (Republic of the Congo)
- Ethiopia
- Ethiopian Human Rights Commission
- Gabon
- National Human Rights Commission (Gabon)
- Madagascar
- National Human Rights Commission (Madagascar)
- Mali
- Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (Mali)
- Mauritania
- Commissariat aux Droits de l’Homme, a la Lutte contre la Pauvreté et l’Insertion (Mauritania)
- Nigeria
- National Human Rights Commission (Nigeria)
- Sierra Leone
- Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone
- Sudan
- Southern Sudan Human Rights Commission
- Tunisia
- Higher Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Tunisia)
External links
See also
- Human rights
- Human rights in Africa
- Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF)
- European Group of National Human Rights Institutions
- Network of National Institutions in the Americas
- List of human rights articles by country
- Human Rights Commissions
- African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
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