colonial period and, for that purpose, gather information and receive evidence from
any person;
determination of appropriate reparative measures to be extended to descendants of
slaves and indentured labourers;
enquire into complaints, other than a frivolous and vexatious complaints, made by
any person aggrieved by a dispossession or prescription of any land in which he/she
claimed to have an interest; and
preparation of a comprehensive report of its activities, research and findings, based
on factual and objective information and evidence received by it and submit the
report to the President.
108. The Truth and Justice Commission submitted its report on 25 November 2011. A
Ministerial Committee was subsequently set up to look into the recommendations of the report.
The first meeting of the Ministerial Committee was held on 6 August 2015.
109. The report of the Truth and Justice Commission also led to the setting up of a Committee
of Inquiry on the Acquisitive Prescription in May 2012. The Acquisitive Prescription Bill was
presented to Parliament in October 2018 to repeal the Affidavits of Prescription Act and the
Affidavits of Prescription Act (Suspension of Certain Provisions) Act. It would provide for a new
and more appropriate legislative framework with better safeguards regarding acquisitive
prescriptions.
110. Government is also looking into the structure that would be most appropriate to deal with
cases of land dispossession and hear disputes regarding land. In March 2019, Government, has
given the assurances that it will expedite matters. In this respect, in the budget 2019/2020, it has
been announced that a new legislation will be brought to set up a separate land division of the
Supreme Court to investigate into cases of land dispossession and ownership claims. Moreover, a
Special Fund will be set up and an amount of Rs 50 million has been earmarked.
111. Moreover, the setting up of a separate Court of Appeal Section and a separate High Court
section of the Supreme Court is currently in progress.
112. Following the review of Mauritius by the CERD Committee on the Convention on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination Committee in August 2018 in Geneva, a Ministerial
Committee, under the chair of the Vice Prime Minister and composed of 6 Ministers, has been set
up in September 2018 to look into the recommendations of the Committee.
PERSON WITH DISABILITIES
113. Mauritius is considering to become a party to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human
and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa and all the implications
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