28th Ordinary Session: 23 October - 6 November 2000. Cotonou, Benin

State Reports & Concluding Observations

• Benin: 1st Periodic Report, 1993-1998
  Submitted: 01 June 2008
  Concluding Observations: available

Mission Reports

• Benin: Promotion Mission, 2000
  Commissioner: Jainaba Johm
• Central African Republic: Mission on Prisons and Conditions of Detention, 2000
  Special Mechanism: Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
  Commissioner: Emmanuel Victor Oware Dankwa
• Mozambique: Promotion Mission, 2000
  Commissioner: Barney Pityana
• Tanzania: Promotion Mission, 2000
  Commissioner: Vera Mlanguzwa Chirwa

Decisions on Communications

• 232/99. John D. Ouko / Kenya
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 231/99. Avocats Sans Frontières (on behalf of Gaëtan Bwampamye) / Burundi
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 230/99. Motale Zacharia Sakwe / Cameroon
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 226/99. Union Nationale des Syndicats Autonomes du Sénégal (UNSAS) / Senegal
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 225/98. Huri - Laws / Nigeria
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 224/98. Media Rights Agenda / Nigeria
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 223/98. Forum of Conscience / Sierra Leone
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 97/93_14AR. John K. Modise / Botswana
  Outcome: Amicable settlement, Decided on merits

NGO Statements

NGOs Granted Observer Status

• Aliança Musulmana de Angola (ALMUA)
• Arab Programme for Human Rights Activists
• Association Algérienne d'Alphabétisation
• Association Béninoise d'Assistance à l'Enfant et à la Famille
• Association des Femmes Juristes du Tchad
•  Association pour la Promotion des Libertés Fondamentales
• HURINET (Uganda)
• Legal and Human Rights Centre
• Ligue Nationale des Droits de l'Homme du Cameroun (LINAH)
• Social Alert
• Volunteers for Prison Inmates

NHRI Affiliate Status

• Comité Sénégalais des Droits de l'Homme
• Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés Fondamentales (Niger)
• National Commission for Democracy and Human Rights, Sierra Leone