No. 1313. United Nations and Economic Community of West African States

2021 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 66-91

66Human rights — Treaties — Right to education — Right to equality and non-discrimination — Ban in Sierra Leone preventing pregnant girls from accessing mainstream schools — Whether violating international human rights obligations applicable to Sierra Leone — African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 1981 — African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990 — Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003 — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Convention Against Discrimination in Education, 1960 — United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 — Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 — International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 — Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 — Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States, 1993International tribunals — Jurisdiction — Locus standi — Whether non-governmental organization having capacity to sue on behalf of pregnant adolescent schoolgirls — Public interest — Whether criteria for public interest litigation met — Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African StatesState responsibility — Attribution — Acts of public officials — Minister of Education in Sierra Leone issuing statement — Statement preventing pregnant girls from accessing mainstream schools — Whether statement attributable to Sierra Leone — Whether violating Sierra Leone’s international legal obligations


1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Mortimer

The phenomenon of state breakdown in the post-cold war era has significantly increased the demand for peacekeeping operations around the world. The United Nations has stepped boldly into the breach, considerably expanding its interventions in hotspots on all continents. Yet the capacity of the UN to respond is often uncertain, and this has sparked interest in the concept of regional peacekeeping as an alternative, especially since the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) deployed the Cease-fire Monitoring Group (Ecomog) to stem the ravages of civil war in Liberia.


1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
Tafsir Malick N’Diaye

The West African force known as the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) was sent to Liberia by ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States). A closer look at the Force shows that it is an adaptation of the peacekeeping system used by the United Nations. What started as a system of collective security based on the regional security mechanism of ECOWAS turned into a standard peacekeeping operation as a result of “the Yamoussoukro process.”


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