The African Commission on
Human and Peoples’ Rights, meeting at its 9th Extra-Ordinary Session, held
in Banjul, The Gambia, from 23 February to 3 March 2011:
Recalling its mandate to promote and protect human and peoples’ rights pursuant to the African Charter
on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter);
Recalling further the Resolutions on the Human Rights Situation in the Republic of
Tunisia: Resolution ACHPR/Res: 56 (XXIV) 01, on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in Tunisia,
adopted during the its 29th Ordinary Session
held from 23 April to 7 May 2001,
in Tripoli, Great Socialist
People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;
Considering the protests of the Tunisian Citizens
which led to the establishment of a political transition process;
Nonetheless concerned by the persistent pockets
of conflict which result in human
rights violations and retaliatory attacks;
Concerned by the large scale displacements and migration
of the population who fear for their lives and the social and humanitarian
consequences of this state of
affairs;
Urges the transitional Government and all the political actors to guarantee
respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Tunisian
citizens and to
direct a peaceful political transition towards the establishment
of democratic institutions responding to the aspirations
of the Tunisian
people;
Invites the African Union and the International Community to support the transitional Government and the Tunisian
People in the realization of their common objectives and in their search for lasting
peace.
Done in Banjul, The Gambia, 1st March 2011.