An advisory opinion is a power exercisable by most higher courts of law where the court interprets certain legal issues or provisions of the law and establishes a position on that particular aspect. The process of obtaining an advisory Opinion is non-contentious and also non-binding at the AfCHPR. 

Anyone supporting climate justice in Africa can sign. How will the opinion impact policy? It will guide African governments in adopting rights-based climate policies. handsome.

The African Climate Platform members

This is the African Court on Human and people’s rights, which is an international court established by member states of the African Union (AU) to implement provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights

1. Constitutive Act of the African Union. 

1. African Charter for Human and Peoples Rights 

1. African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 

1. Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) 

1. The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. 

1. The Revised African Convention on Conservation of Nature. 

1. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 
2. Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.  
3. Paris Agreement. 
4. United Nations Convention on Combatting Desertification. 
5. United Nations Convention on Biodiversity. 
6. African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights State Reporting Guidelines and Principles on article 21 and 24 of the African Charter Relating to Extractives Industries, Human Rights and Environment 2018. 
7. African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights Resolution 153 on Climate Change and Human Rights. 
8. African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights Resolution 342 on Climate Change and Human Rights in Africa. 
9. African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights Resolution 417 on the Human Rights Impacts of Extreme Weather in Eastern and Southern Africa.
10. African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights Resolution on Climate Change and Forced Disappearance.  

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We shall proceed to wait for the court to issue the next directives, otherwise we just keep on doing our advocacy activities

We can only wait and see, nothing provided in the court rules

None existent according to the rules, you just wait for the communication from the court

Through advocacy initiatives

This is an African request by Africans on behalf of the African continent,we can say that charity begins at home. However, there are already other processes outside of Africa that have already taken place.

This is an African request by Africans on behalf of the African continent, discussing African issues.

It helps to inform policies that will help make life better for Africans and enforce their human rights when it comes to climate change and its effects.

Climate change effects have caused the deprivation of many human rights such as the right to life where people lose their lives in extreme drought and famine, in heavy floods caused by heavy rainfall, etc, the right to health is deprived, the right to a clean and healthy environment, and many other rights are impacted by the effects of climate change.

The right to a healthy environment, the right to life, the right to health, the right to dignity, right to equal treatment, the right of women, children and the elderly to be specially protected, the right to freely dispose of their wealth, etc

Dzie Chimbga- dziechimbga@gmail.com

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