27th Ordinary Session: 27 April - 11 May 2000. Algiers, Algeria

State Reports & Concluding Observations

• Burundi: 1st Periodic Report, 1991-2000
  Submitted: 21 March 2000
• Libya: 2nd Periodic Report, 1992-2000
  Submitted: 01 January 1993
• Rwanda: 2nd Periodic Report, 1992-2000
  Submitted: 01 April 2000
• Swaziland: 1st Periodic Report, 1995-2000
  Submitted: 01 February 2000
• Uganda: 1st Periodic Report, 1986-2000
  Submitted: 01 April 2000

Mission Reports

• Djibouti: Promotion Mission, 2000
  Commissioner: Kamel Rezag-Bara
• Rwanda: Promotion Mission, 2000
  Commissioner: Julienne Ondziel-Gnelenga

Decisions on Communications

• 219/98. Legal Defence Centre / Gambia (The)
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 209/97. Africa Legal Aid / Gambia (The)
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 205/97. Kazeem Aminu / Nigeria
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 201/97. Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights / Egypt
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 147/95-149/96. Sir Dawda K. Jawara / Gambia (The)
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 133/94. Association pour la défense des droits de l'Homme et des libertés / Djibouti
  Outcome: Amicable settlement
• 73/92_13AR. Mohammed Lamin Diakité / Gabon
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 54/91-61/91-96/93-98/93-164/97_196/97-210/98. Malawi Africa Association, Amnesty International, Ms Sarr Diop, Union interafricaine des droits de l'Homme and RADDHO, Collectif des veuves et ayants-Droit, Association mauritanienne des droits de l'Homme / Mauritania
  Outcome: Decided on merits

NGO Statements

NGOs Granted Observer Status

• Alliance for Africa
• Association Tunisienne des Droits de l'Enfant
• Collectif des Associations et ONG Féminines du Burundi
• Ligue Burundaise des Droits de l'Homme ITEKA" "
• Ligue Djiboutienne des Droits de l'Homme

NHRI Affiliate Status

• Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme du Rwanda
•  Malawi National Human Rights Commission
• Observatoire Nationale des Droits de l'Homme, Algerie - replaced in 2001 by the Conseil National Consultatif pour la Promotion et la Protection des Droits de l'Homme