40th Ordinary Session: 15 - 29 November 2006. Banjul, Gambia

State Reports & Concluding Observations

• Nigeria: 2nd Periodic Report, 1990-2004
  Submitted: 01 November 2006
  Concluding Observations: available
• Uganda: 2nd Periodic Report, 2000-2006
  Submitted: 01 May 2006
  Concluding Observations: available

Mission Reports

• Lesotho: promotion mission, 2006
• Libya: Research and Information Visit regarding Indigenous Populations / Communities, 2005
  Special Mechanism: Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa
• Mauritius: Promotion Mission, 2006
  Commissioner: Sanji Mmasenono Monageng
• Niger: Mission Working Group Indigenous Populations / Communities, 2006
  Special Mechanism: Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa
  Commissioner: Kamel Rezag-Bara

Decisions on Communications

• 322/06. Tsatsu Tsikata / Ghana
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 304/05. FIDH, Organisation nationale des droits de l'Homme (ONDH) and Rencontre africaine pour la défence des droits de l'Homme (RADDHO) / Senegal
  Outcome: Ruled inadmissible
• 253/02. Antonie Bissangou / Congo
  Outcome: Decided on merits

NGO Statements

NGOs Granted Observer Status

• Association des Femmes Juristes de Côte-d’Ivoire (AFJCI)
• Baobab for Women’s Rights
• Centre for Reproductive Rights
• East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
• Freinstein International Centre
• Help Out
• Institute of Wildlife, Forestry and Human Development Studies
• Lawyers for Human Rights
• People Against Injustice
• Third World Network based
• Unissons-nous pour la protection des Batwas

NHRI Affiliate Status