AFRICAN UNION
UNION AFRICAINE
UNIÃO AFRICANA
African Commission on Human &
Peoples’ Rights
Commission Africaine des Droits de
l’Homme & des Peuples
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18th Extra-Ordinary Session
29 July to 7 August 2015, Nairobi, Kenya
Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Combined periodic report of
the Republic of Senegal on implementation of the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights (2004 – 2013)
I.
Introduction
1. The Republic of Senegal is a State Party to the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter) having ratified it on 13 June 1982.
2. The Republic of Senegal presented its combined (8th, 9th, 10th and 11th) periodic
report, in accordance with Article 62 of the African Charter, at the 56th Ordinary
Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission)
held from 21 April to 7 May 2015 in Banjul (The Gambia).
3. . The Report was presented by a Delegation of the Republic of Senegal (the
Delegation), led by His Excellency Professor Cheikh Tidiane THIAM, Ambassador
to the Cabinet of the Senegalese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Head of Delegation
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Professor Saliou NDIAYE, Ambassador of Senegal in the Gambia
Mr Mouhamadou Moustapha SEYE, Director of Human Rights at the
Senegalese Ministry of Justice
Mr Ndongo DIENG, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr El Hadj Magatte NDAW, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mrs Dieynaba TOURE BATHILY, First Counselor at the Embassy of
Senegal in The Gambia
Mr Mouhamadou Moustapha THIOUNE, Director of Public Freedoms,
Senegalese Ministry of Interior
Mr Ibrahima DEME, Director of the Promotion of Good Governance at the
Senegalese Ministry of African Integration, NEPAD and the Promotion of
Good Governance
Mrs Astou SYLLA, Senegalese Ministry of Women, Family and Childhood
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