{"id":194785,"date":"2025-03-28T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-withdrawal-of-individuals-and-ngos-access-to-the-african-court-marks-a-serious-setback-for-human-rights-accountability\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:09:49","slug":"tunisias-withdrawal-of-individuals-and-ngos-access-to-the-african-court-marks-a-serious-setback-for-human-rights-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-withdrawal-of-individuals-and-ngos-access-to-the-african-court-marks-a-serious-setback-for-human-rights-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s Withdrawal of Individuals&#8217; and NGOs&#8217; Access to the African Court Marks a Serious Setback for Human Rights Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">The undersigned Tunisian and international civil society organizations condemn the Tunisian government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.up.ac.za\/latest-news\/3965-press-statement-centre-for-human-rights-expresses-concern-about-tunisia-s-withdrawal-of-access-to-the-african-court-by-individuals-and-ngo-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> to withdraw its declaration under Article 34(6) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/en\/treaties\/protocol-african-charter-human-and-peoples-rights-establishment-african-court-human-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights<\/a>. This decision prevents individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with observer status before the African Commission on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights to directly bring cases against Tunisia before the African Court on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights (the African&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280080.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undersigned Tunisian and international civil society organizations condemn the Tunisian government&#8217;s decision to withdraw its declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights. This decision prevents individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with observer status before the African Commission on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights to directly bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":194786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[6450,13948,258,256,4380,6185,3575,21152,9877,257,10215,5100,8247,254,653,6684,11279],"class_list":["post-194785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-access","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-court","tag-human","tag-individuals","tag-marks","tag-news","tag-ngos","tag-rights","tag-setback","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias","tag-withdrawal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}