The Rights to Due Process
THE RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL
Relevant human rights treaties
- Articles 7 and 26 African Charter on Human Peoples’ Rights
- Articles 8, 9 and 10 American Convention on Human Rights
- Articles 6 and 7 and Protocol 7 to European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom
- Articles 14 and 15 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Other relevant instruments and documents
- Article 10 Universal Declaration on Human Rights
- Article 18 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
- Articles 22-33 and 62-67 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, adopted at the Seventh UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of offenders on 26 August-6 September 1985 at Milan
- Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the 8th UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders on 27 August-7 September 1990, Havana
- General Comment 13 on Fair Trial, adopted by the Human Rights Committee, Twenty-first session, 1984
THE RIGHT TO AN EFFECTIVE REMEDY
Relevant human rights treaties
- Article 2(3)(b) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Article 7(1) African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Article 25 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Articles 25 and 63(1) American Convention on Human Rights
- Articles 13 and 41 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Other relevant instruments and documents
- Article 10 Universal Declaration on Human Rights
- Articles 24 and 26 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
