African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease of humans and other animals.

The Agency's support through the African Union's Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign is happily yielding results, and Africa has begun to take effective ownership of the programme.

(f) The FAO SADC Regional Training Centre for mid level personnel for the control of African animal trypanosomiasis is now fully staffed and operational.

We organized in Brazzaville in June 2005 a conference on trypanosomiasis, during which a resolution declaring trypanosomiasis the number one priority for public health, like HIV AIDS and malaria, was adopted.

Human rights The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, in existence since 1986, is established under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Charter) rather than the Constitutive Act of the African Union.

African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters

(c) African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Technical support in this field is also provided to trypanosomiasis control programmes in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe

(b) African Union Conference of National Human Rights Institutions

Welcoming the adoption of the Protocol establishing the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights to complement the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights,

On human rights issues, the African Group wishes to stress Africa's commitment to human rights.

Since 2000 Member of the African League for Human Rights

1989 The African Charter on Human and Peoples apos Rights.

This year, the Centre provided support to the African Commission on Human and People apos s Rights, the Arab Institute of Human Rights, and the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies.

In addition, the collaboration of WHO and FAO with the OAU International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control was strengthened.

OAU IBAR is invited to attend FAO statutory meetings relating to the Programme for the Control of African Animal Trypanosomiasis and Related Development, the most recent of these being the meeting of the regional liaison officers (East Africa) held in Nairobi in 1993.

UNHCR also continued its partnerships with the African Parliamentary Union and the African Commission on Human and People's Rights.

The Court complements the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.

The Court was established under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples Rights.

The African Union, in cooperation with OHCHR and the Coordinating Committee of African National Human Rights Institutions, organized the first African Union Conference of National Human Rights Institutions in Addis Ababa from 18 to 21 October 2004.

9. The Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Human Development was represented.

STATUS OF RATIFICATION BY AFRICAN STATES OF PRINCIPAL INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

55. FAO is a serving member of the Executive Committee of the International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control (ISCTRC), the OAU IBAR (Inter African Bureau for Animal Resources) body with responsibility for convening the biennial international meeting and for addressing technical aspects of control.

Among the African Union's principles is respect for the sanctity of human life.

and Add.1 African Common Position on Human and Social Development in Africa

(b) Article 25 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples apos Rights

The African Charter on Human and Peoples apos Rights (HR PUB 90 1)

(b) The support provided by the Office to the African Union for the strengthening of its human rights system, and welcoming in this regard the entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

(b) The support provided by the Office to the African Union for the strengthening of its human rights system, and welcoming in this regard the entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

The Centre also continued to support the African Commission of Human and People apos s Rights of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

Co Founder and First Vice President, Pan African Human Rights Organization, Inc., New York.

(b) The support provided by the Office of the High Commissioner to the African Union for the strengthening of its human rights system, and welcomes in this regard the entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

The Centre for Human Rights provides financial assistance to the African Centre to support its human rights research, education and training activities.

(3) Cut off diplomatic contact with these sub human Middle Eastern, African, and Asian countries

But there is no shortage of great testimonies of human spirit from the African continent.

With human development in mind, an Asian African development university network is currently being developed.

(c) Training courses in human rights for the South African police force, military and judiciary.

5. The Centre for Human Rights pursued and strengthened its contacts and cooperation with the established regional organizations in the field of human rights, namely the African Commission on Human and Peoples apos Rights of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Inter American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter American Court of Human Rights.

Emergencv Trypanosomiasis Units in M'Banza Congo Provincial Hospital AMDA collaborated with OCHA in another project carried out in Angola for the period of ten months from Jun.

Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other relevant human rights instruments,

Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other relevant human rights instruments,

22. Welcomes the adoption by the States members of the African Union of the protocol establishing an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights to complement the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and encourages the finalization of the process leading to the establishment of the Court

African Charter of Human and People's Rights adopted by the Organization of African Unity in June 1981 and ratified on 15 July 1986 by the Niger