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African Union and Organization for the African Unity

African Union and Organization for the African Unity

Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000)

Official application of the Kingdom of Morocco of membership to the African Union (19 September 2016)

Legal Opinions

Legal Opinion on the legality in the context of international law, including the relevant united nations resolutions and oau/au decisions, of actions allegedly taken by the Moroccan authorities or any other state, group of states, foreign companies or any other entity in the exploration and/or exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources or any other economic activity in Western Sahara (2015)

by the Office of the legal counsel and directorate for legal affairs of the African Union Commission

circulated as document of the Security Council S/2015/786 ]

 

 

Responses of the African Union Legal Counsel to the questions raised in a communication dated 13 November, 2016 received from the Permanent Representatives of Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Namibia, Uganda, Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho, South Africa, Algeria and Kenya in regard to the expressed intention of the Kingdom of Morocco to accede to the Constitutive Act of the African Union and to be admitted as a member of the Union (January 2017)

Assemby of Heads of State and Government

Plan of action on the consideration and resolution of conflicts in Africa (31 August 2009)

[SP/ASSEMBLY/PS/PLAN(I)]

 

Déclaration on the report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa (26-27 May 2013)

[Assembly/AU/Decl.1 (XXI)]

 

Solemn Declaration on the 50th anniversary of the OAU/AU (26-27 May 2013)

[Assembly/AU/Decl.3 (XXI)]

 

Declaration on the organization of Crans Montana Forum in the occupied city of Dakhla, Western Sahara (30 - 31 January 2015)

[Assembly/AU/Decl.7 (XXIV)]

 

Decision on the report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa 30 - 31 January 2015)

[Assembly/AU/Dec.559 (XXIV)]

 

Decision on the report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa (14 – 15 June 2015)

[Assembly/AU/Dec.583(XXV)]

 

Decision on the report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa (30 - 31 January 2016)

[Assembly/AU/Dec.598(XXVI)]

 

Decision on the report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa (30 - 31 January 2017)

[Assembly/AU/Dec.629(XXVIII)]

 

Decision on the issue of Western Sahara (3 - 4 July 2017)

[Assembly/AU/Dec.653(XXIX)]

 

Decision on the report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa (30 - 31 January 2016) (30 - 31 January 2018)

[Assembly/AU/Dec.677(XXX)]

 

Decision on the report of the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union on the issue of Western Sahara (1 - 2 July 2018)

[Assembly/AU/Dec.693(XXXI)]

 

Decision on the 14th Extraordinary session of the Assembly of the Union on silencing the guns in Africa

[Ext/Assembly/AU/Dec.1(XIV)] [Published as United Nations official document S/2020/1310]

Executive Council

 Decision on the twenty ninth, thirtieth and and thirty first activity reports of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights

23 - 27 January 2012

 

Decision on the activity report of the African Union Commission

23 – 27 January 2012

 

Decision on the 32nd and 33rd Combined activty report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights

1 – 25 January 2013

 

Decision on the activity report of the Commission 

1 – 25 January 2013

 

Decision on the first progress report of the chairperson of the Commission on the situation in Western Sahara 

19 – 23 May 2013

 

Decision on the thirty - fourth activity report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights 

19 – 23 May 2013

 

Decision on the thirty - seventh activity report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights

23 – 27 January 2015

 

Decision on the annual report of the Commission for 2014

23 – 27 January 2015

 

Decision on the thirty-eighth activty report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights

EX.CL/Dec.887(XXVII)
1 – 12 June 2015  

 

Decision on Africa's strategic partnerships

25 - 27 January 2017

 

Decision on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights

25 – 26 January 2018
 

Decision on the thirty-eighth activty report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights

EX.CL/Dec.1065(XXXV)
4 – 5 July 2019

 

Pan-African Parliament

A briefing note for the Pan-African Parliament Committee on International Relations, Cooperation and Conflict Resolution: On Western Sahara

By Timothy Othieno Senior researcher Institute for Global Dialogue (August 2006)

 

Report of the Pan-African Permanent Committee on Cooperation, International Relations and Conflict Resolution: On Peace and Security Situation in Africa

Presented to the 7th Ordinary Session of the PAP in May 2007

 

Letter of the President of the Pan African Parliament to the President of the European Parliament concerning "THE NEW EU-MOROCCO FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT (FPA): A VIOLATION OF THE TERRITORIAL RIGHT OF THE SAHARAWI PEOPLE" (1st December 2013)

 

Letter of the President of the Pan African Parliament to the Executive Chairman of the Crans Montana Forum (23 February 2015)

 

Declaration on the organization of Crans Montana Forum in the occupied city of Dakhla (Saharawi Republic) (3 March 2016)

 

African Union Commission

1st Progress Report of the Chairperson of the Commission on the situation in Western Sahara

EX.CL/788(XXIII)‐Rev.1 [Original : English]
19 – 23 May 2013

   

Press Release N. 070/2014

24 March 2014

 

Communique

15 April 2014

   

Press Release N. 027/2015

6 February 2015

 

Report of the Chairperson of the Commission on the evolution of the Peace Process in Western Sahara and other related issues

27 March 2015

 

Letter dated 30 March 2015 from the Chairperson of the African Union Commission addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

[published as Annex I of the official document of United Nations A/69/861 - S/2015/240]

 

Press Release

12 December 2015

 

Press Release No049/2016

29 February 2016

 

Press Release

14 March 2016

 

Press Release

18 March 2016

 

Press Release NoXX/2016

31 May 2016

 

Press Release PR nº 26/27th au Summit

25 July 2016

 

Press Release

3 September 2016

 

Press Release Nº 324/2016

22 September 2016

 

Communiqué

20 March 2017

 

Report of the Chairperson of the Commission on the evolution of the peace process in Western Sahara and other related issues

20 March 2017

 

Note Verbale EA19400 - 143/15/15

to all Member States on the situation raised by the Kingdom of Morocco in the joint meeting of the Specialized Technical Committe (STC) and the African Conference of Finance Ministers of the United Nations Commission for Africa in Dakar
31 March 2017 [in French

 

Letter dated 27 April 2017 from the Chairperson of the African Union Commission to the (United Nations) Secretary-General

[Published as Annex of the official document of the United Nations S/2017/405]

 

Press Release

29 April 2017

 

Introductory note of the chairperson of the Commission to the annual report on the activities of the African Union and its organs

EX.CL/1061(XXXII)
22 –26 January 2018

 

Annual report on the activities of the African Union and its organs

EX.CL/1061(XXXII)
22 –26 January 2018

 

Report of the Chairperson of the Commission on the question of Western Sahara

1-2 July 2018

 

African Union Special Envoy for Western Sahara (appointed by the President of the African Union Commission in June 2014)

Draft Talking notes AU Special Envoy for Western Sahara

Arria formula meeting on 26 April 2016

 

Press Release

AU Special Envoy for Western Sahara Concludes his Mission to the UN Secretariat and Briefs the UN Security Council on Western Sahara

1 May 2016

 

 Press Release

African Union Special Envoy for Western Sahara, H.E. former President Joaquim Chissano conducts consultations on Western Sahara in Geneva, Switzerland

3 March 2017

Peace and Security Council

Protocol relating to the establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (2002)

 

Communiqué

27 March 2015

 

Press Statement

30 April 2015

 

Communiqué

26 September 2015

 

Press Statement

11 February 2016

 

Communiqué

6 April 2016

 

Communiqué

12 August 2016

  

Communiqué

20 March 2017
[also enclosed to the Letter dated 27 April 2017 from the Chairperson of the African Union Commission to the United Nations Secretary-General in document S/2017/405]

 

Report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa

3-4 July 2017

 

Report of the Peace and Security Council on its activities and the state of peace and security in Africa

1-2 July 2018

 

Communiqué

9 March 2021
Published as Security Council official document S/2021/903

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Resolution 45 on the Western Sahara, 11 May 2000

ACHPR/Res.45(XXVII)00

 

Statement by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Trial and Sentencing of Twenty-Five Sahrawi Civilians by a Military Court in Morocco
23 February 2013

 

Resolution 282 on the situation in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, 28 April to 12 May 2014

ACHPR/Res.282 (LV)2014

 

Resolution 340 on the Human Rights Situation in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, 20 April 2016

ACHPR/Res. 340 (LVIII)2016

African Court on Human and Peoples's Rights

Case Youssef Ababou v. Kingdom of Morocco (application nº 007/2011)

Decision, 2 September 2011

 

Affaire Bernard Anbataayela Mornah v. Republic of Benin, Burkina Faso, Republic of Côte d’Îvoire, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Mali, Republic of Malawi, Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Tunisia (requête nº. 028/2018)

Judgement, 22 September 2022 [full text] [Summary]

 

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