Enforcement powers of national human rights institutions : a case study of Ghana, South Africa and Uganda

[摘要] The purpose of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of the Uganda Human Rights Commission UHRC), which possesses judicial powers vis-à-vis the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice of Ghana (CHRAJ) and the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) which do notpossess such powers. The difference notwithstanding, all the three have been rated as the best nationalinstitutions in Africa. Due to time and space constraints, one will focus specifically with the mandates ofthe three commissions and in particular, on the different or distinct mandates assigned to them, namely,that of CHRAJ to deal with corruption, that of SAHRC to deal with economic, cultural and social rightsand UHRC of dealing with torture matters and generally of constituting a tribunal. This study was motivated by the fact that Lesotho will be setting up a national institution in 2008 and one would like todraw lessons from these institutions and pick up elements that could best suit Lesotho.

[发布机构] University of Pretoria