33rd Ordinary Session: 15 - 29 May 2003. Niamey, Niger

State Reports & Concluding Observations

• SADR: Initial Report and Periodic Reports 1 to 6, 1988-2002
  Submitted: 01 December 2002
  Concluding Observations: available

Mission Reports

• Burkina Faso: Promotion Mission, 2001
  Commissioner: Isaac Nguema
• Namibia: Mission on Prisons and Conditions of Detention - 2001
  Special Mechanism: Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
  Commissioner: Vera Mlanguzwa Chirwa
• South Africa: Promotion Mission, 2001
  Commissioner: Andrew Ranganayi Chigovera
• Uganda: Mission on Prisons and Conditions of Detention - 2001
  Special Mechanism: Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention
  Commissioner: Vera Mlanguzwa Chirwa

Decisions on Communications

• 261/02. Interights et al / Egypt
  Outcome: Withdrawn
• 254/02. Mouvement des réfugiés mauritaniens au Sénégal pour la defense des droits de l'Homme / Senegal
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 252/02. Stephen O. Aigbe / Nigeria
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 247/02. Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (on behalf of Jean Simbarkiye) / DRC
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 244/01. Arab Organisation for Human Rights / Egypt
  Outcome: Withdrawn
• 241/01. Purohit and Moore / Gambia (The)
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 233/99-234/99. Interights (on behalf of Pan African Movement and Citizens for Peace in Eritrea) v Ethiopia and Interights (on behalf of Pan African Movement and Inter African Group) / Eritrea
  Outcome: Postposed 'sine die'
• 228/99. Law Offices of Ghazi Suleiman / Sudan
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 227/99. Democratic Republic of Congo / Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 157/96. Association pour la sauvegarde de la paix au Burundi / Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zaire (DRC), Zambia
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 236/00. Curtis Francis Doebbler / Sudan
  Outcome: Decided on merits
• 222/98-229/99. Law Office of Ghazi Suleiman / Sudan
  Outcome: Decided on merits

NGO Statements

NGOs Granted Observer Status

• African Women's Media Center
• Center for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
• Indigenous Peoples of Africa
• International Institute for Child Protection
• International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)
• Mahatma Ghandi Human Rights Organization
• Mainyoito Pastoralist
• Media Foundation for West Africa
• Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)
• National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADL)
• ONG Démocratie Vivante
• Organisation pour la Promotion et l'Epanouissement de la Femme Nigérienne (DIMOL Niger)
• Réseau des Journalistes pour les Droits de l'Homme
• Santé de la Reproduction pour une maternité sans Risques (Rayouwan Mata) (Niger)

NHRI Affiliate Status