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Citation
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Judgment date
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| November 2025 |
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The respondent's failure to reconstitute its NHRC governing council violated the applicant's right to a timely fair hearing.
Human rights — Right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time (Article 7(1)(d), African Charter) — Applicability to quasi-judicial bodies (NHRC) — State responsibility for institutional inaction — Jurisdiction and admissibility of human-rights applications — Reparations: general damages and orders to ensure determination.
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17 November 2025 |
| March 2025 |
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Applicants’ arrests and forcible home entries violated privacy, liberty, assembly, expression and fair‑trial rights; damages awarded.
Human rights – unlawful entry into private homes; arbitrary arrest and detention; infringement of freedom of assembly, demonstration and expression; violation of right to counsel and fair trial; remedies and damages (5,000,000 CFA per applicant); costs awarded against State.
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17 March 2025 |
| February 2025 |
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Applicants lacked standing to sue on behalf of the deceased absent proof of relationship or legal mandate.
Human rights jurisdiction — continuing state obligations — temporal jurisdiction; admissibility — victim status/standing under Article 10(d); not an invitation to exercise appellate jurisdiction over domestic courts; Article 9(3) limitation inapplicable to human rights cases.
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28 February 2025 |
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Failure to appeal to the Council of Ministers rendered the applicant's claim inadmissible.
ECOWAS Court jurisdiction — disputes between Community and officials; admissibility — mandatory exhaustion of internal remedies; Article 73(a) Staff Regulations — appeal to Council of Ministers required despite "may"; retired staff count as officials for Court access; dismissal for failure to exhaust remedies.
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28 February 2025 |
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Court found jurisdiction but dismissed NGO’s public interest suit for inadmissibility due to failure to identify envisagable victims.
Human rights — jurisdiction under Supplementary Protocol Article 9(4) — admissibility of public interest litigation — NGO locus standi — actio popularis — requirement to envisage victim class — Dasin Hausa Dam flooding allegations.
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14 February 2025 |
| December 2024 |
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Court found respondent liable for torture by police, awarded compensation, and rejected statute-bar and sub-judice objections.
Human rights — Jurisdiction of ECOWAS Court over individual complaints — Statute of limitations inapplicable to individual human rights claims — Sub-judice and appellate objections — Torture and ill-treatment in custody (Article 5 African Charter) — Presumption of state responsibility for injuries in detention — Duty to investigate and prosecute — Reparations (compensation and remedial orders).
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3 December 2024 |
| November 2024 |
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22 November 2024 |
