Contents 5. United Nations Extra-Conventional Mechanisms for Human Rights Monitoring ..............................................................................................67 5.1 5.2 6. Special procedures I: Thematic and country mandates ................................68 Special procedures II: The 1503 complaints procedure ...............................69 Concluding Remarks..........................................................................................70 Chapter 3 The Major Regional Human Rights Instruments and the Mechanisms for Their Implementation.......................71 Learning Objectives ...................................................................................................71 Questions.....................................................................................................................71 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................72 2. African Human Rights Treaties and their Implementation.........................72 2.1. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 1981........................72 2.1.1 The undertakings of the States parties.........................................................73 2.1.2 The individual and collective rights recognized..............................................73 2.1.3 The individual duties..................................................................................74 2.1.4 Permissible limitations on the exercise of rights............................................75 2.1.5 Derogations from legal obligations...............................................................75 2.1.6 The implementation mechanism ..................................................................75 2.2 The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990 ..........77 2.2.1 The undertakings of the States parties.........................................................78 2.2.2 The rights recognized ..................................................................................78 2.2.3 The child’s duties........................................................................................79 2.2.4 The implementation mechanism ..................................................................79 3. American Human Rights Treaties and their Implementation.....................80 3.1 3.2 3.3 vi The American Convention on Human Rights, 1969, and its Protocols of 1988 and 1990..............................................................................80 3.1.1 The undertakings of the States parties.........................................................81 3.1.2 The rights recognized ..................................................................................82 3.1.3 Permissible limitations on the exercise of rights............................................84 3.1.4 Permissible derogations from legal obligations ..............................................86 3.1.5 The implementation mechanism ..................................................................87 The Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, 1985 ......................................................................................................90 3.2.1 The scope of the Convention ........................................................................90 3.2.2 The undertakings of the States parties.........................................................90 3.2.3 The implementation mechanism ..................................................................91 The Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons, 1994 .................................................................................................91 3.3.1 The scope of the Convention ........................................................................91 3.3.2 The undertakings of the States parties.........................................................92 Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers