The African Charter on Human Peoples’ Rights is the region’s major human rights tool and emerged under the guidance of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The objective to describe the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights was announced in 1979 and the OAU Assembly 1981 approved the deed unanimously. Pursuant of Article 63 the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights came into existence on 21st of October 1986.

This is the reason 21st October is celebrated as African Human Rights Day. The ACHPR is also known as the Banjul charter. It is a worldwide human rights tool that is projected to protect and promote human rights as well as basic liberty in the African continent. A protocol to the charter was accepted later in 1998, where an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) was to be formed. The protocol came into force on January 25, 2005.

The African Union Assembly resolute that the ACHP would be included in the African Court of Justice in July 2004.The ACHP followed the route of the European and Inter-American systems by adopting a provincial human rights system for Africa. The African Commission Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is a semi- judicial limb of the AU and its objective is to promote and protect human rights and combined rights throughout the African Continent as well as to describe the African Charter on Human and peoples’ Rights.