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Model Law on Access to Information for Africa and other regional instruments:Soft law and human rights in Africa

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Africa

The adoption in 2013 of the Model Law on Access to Information for Africa by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights is an important landmark in the increasing elaboration of human rights-related soft law standards in Africa. Although non-binding, the Model Law significantly influenced the access to information landscape on the continent. Since the adoption of the Model Law, the Commission adopted several General Comments. The AU similarly adopted Model Laws such as the African Union Model Law on Internally Displaced Persons in Addressing Internal Displacement in Africa.

BTI 2022 Country Report — Togo

Reports & Research
April, 2022
Togo

The Gnassingbé clan has ruled the country since 1967. Throughout the survey period, demands for political change initiated by institutional and electoral reforms were a major issue of contention between the government and the challengers of the Gnassingbé regime. An alliance of opposition parties and civil society groups organized peaceful demonstrations in opposition to the regime. These demonstrations were often violently suppressed. Civil society organizations and representatives of the Christian church supported the opposition’s demands.

 

LOI n° 2008 - 014 sur le domaine privé de l’Etat, des Collectivités Décentralisées et des personnes morales de Droit public

Madagascar
The document, LOI n° 2008 - 014, discusses the private domain of the State, Decentralized Communities, and legal entities under public law in Madagascar. The law was necessitated by the abolition of the presumption of domaniality and the establishment of untitled private land ownership by Law No. 2005-019 of October 17, 2005, which necessitated a revision of the law on the national private domain. This law sets out the new terms for managing its heritage, notably real estate and furniture by the State.