The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has conducted an audit of its Merits Decisions from 1994 to December 2024 and published a list of those requiring implementation follow-up, to address the lack of data regarding the implementation of its decisions. It has also developed a database of its recommendations in the complaints decided during the same period.
In addition to the decisions arising from its complaints procedures, referred to by the Commission as the communication procedure, it has also developed a database of the recommendations made by the Commission in its Mission Reports from 1987 to 2024, which is published along with a summary of the number of recommendations from missions.
The Commission said in a statement issued on December 5, 2025, that it had identified the lack of data regarding the implementation of its decisions as a major challenge, which led it to conduct an audit of its Merits Decisions covering the period.
It published the link to the list of merit decisions from 1994 to December 2024, requiring implementation follow-up on its website at: https://bit.ly/4pCuiID.
The Commission said in the statement that it has also developed a database of its recommendations in decided communications from 1994 to 2024, and similarly published a link to the database at: https://bit.ly/48UMt5t.
According to the Commission, asides from the communication procedure, it has developed a database of its recommendations from Mission Reports from 1987 to 2024. The link to the database is published at: https://bit.ly/458AAaG, while the link to the summary of the number of recommendations from missions is published at: https://bit.ly/4rOkn4i.
