DASHBOARD
(HURIDAC & ACDHRS Project)
Number of Ratified Treaties in West Africa
Number of countries involved in Human Rights Violations in West Africa
Population of West Africa in 2020
The Human Rights of West African People are promoted and protected at various levels, including the United Nations Human Rights framework. The International Criminal Court protection mechanism. The African Union Human Rights framework including the African charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Court. Institutions such as United Nations office for West African and the Sahel provides additional protection, ECOWAS Treaty and ECOWAS Court provides Human Rights protection for its Citizens. National Constitutions, Laws, Policies and Institutions also provides Human Rights protections for Citizens in their respective Countries, such as Protection provided by the National Human Rights Institutions.
West Africa Map
West African clickable Map with links to each countries human rights Fact Sheet and Human Rights Cases.
Human Rights Treaties Graph
International human rights laws come in forms of international treaties. An international treaty can be described generally as a formal agreement or contract between sovereign states, where the signing parties promise to do or not do some act and uphold the provisions of the treaty. The United Nations (UN) is the custodian of almost all international treaties, while regional organizations such as the African Union, Council of Europe, and Organization of American States (OAS) administer the regional treaties.
Human Rights Thematic Areas
Human Rights Thematic Focus Areas includes electoral governance, Democracy, Environment, Health, Water and Sanitation. It further gives insight into how health rights apply to specific groups such as women, children and adolescents, persons living with disabilities, and also those with HIV/AIDS as well as migrants. It presents available statistics and inherent wash and gender issues, human rights principles to clean water and sanitation as recognized by international laws.
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