Uganda Case Law

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defence des Droits de L'Homme v Zambia (Communication 71 of 1992)

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defence des Droits de L'Homme v Zambia (Communication 71 of 1992) [1996] ACHPR 8 (31 October 1996)

Court

African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights

Case number

Communication 71 of 1992

The Commission found Zambia responsible for the mass expulsion of 517 West Africans, holding that local remedies were ineffective and that Articles 2, 7(1)(a), and 12(5) were violated.

• Mass Expulsion
• Non Nationals Rights
• Exhaustion Of Local Remedies
• Discrimination
• Due Process
• Detention

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