Africa: Selected Documents on Constitutive, Conflict and Security, Humanitarian, and Judicial Issues

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Foreword by Henry J. Richardson III I. CONTSTITUTIVE 1. Charter of the United Nations (San Francisco, United States, June 26, 1945) 2. The Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU) (Lom, Togo, June 11, 2000) 3. Charter of the Organization of African Unity (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 25, 1963) 4. Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (Contonou, Benin Republic, July 24, 1993) 5. Treaty of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (Windhoek, Namibia, August 17,1992) 6. Agreement Establishing the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) (Nairobi, Kenya, March 21, 1996) I. CONFLICT & SECURITY A. The African Union (AU) and Organization of African Unity (OAU) 1. Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (Durban, South Africa, July 9, 2002) 2. OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism (Algiers, Algeria, July 14, 1999) 3. African Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty) (Cairo, Egypt, April 11, 1996) 4. Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government on the Establishment within the OAU of a Mechanism for Conflict (Cairo, Egypt, June 30,1993) 5. Draft Kampala Document for a Proposed Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa (CSSDCA) (Kampala, Uganda, May 23, 1991) 6. OAU Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa (Libreville, Gabon, July 3, 1977) B. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 1. Protocol Establishing the ECOWAS Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution, Peace-Keeping, and Security (Lom, Togo, December 10, 1999) 2. Framework Establishing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution, Peace-Keeping and Security (Abuja, Nigeria, October 31, 1998) C. Southern African Development Community (SADC) 1. Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Politics, Defense, and Security Cooperation (Blantyre, Malawi, August 14, 2001, not yet in force) 2. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ for Politics, Defense and Security (Gaborone, Botswana, June 28, 1996) D. Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) 1. IGAD Protocol on the Establishment of A Conflict Early Warning Mechanism (Khartoum, Sudan, January 11, 2002) I. HUMANITARIAN ISSUES 1. African [Banjul] Charter on Human and People's Rights (Banjul, Gambia, June 27, 1986)