Part III
Human Rights instruments to which Seychelles is party
Seychelles subscribes fully, to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and
embraces the purposes and principles contained therein. Its adoption, although is
itself not an enforceable obligation, but rather exerts an overriding moral influence,
had supported the latter implementation in the body of the Constitution of Seychellois
Charter of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms.
The Constitution in Article 48, Part V, Chapter III on the Principles of interpretation
stipulates that the Charter "shall be interpreted in such a way so as not to be inconsistent with
any international obligations of Seychelles relating to human rights and freedoms and a court shall,
when interpreting the provision of this Chapter, take judicial notice of _
a) The international instruments containing these obligations;
b) The reports and expression of views of bodies administering or enforcing these
instruments;
c) The reports, decisions or opinions of international and regional institutions
administering of enforcing Conventions on human rights and freedoms;
d) The Constitutions of other democratic States or nations and decisions of the courts of
the States or nations in respect of their Constitutions".
The main Human Rights Instruments to which Seychelles is Party are as follows:
a.
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International Covenants on Human Rights
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the
Crime of
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Apartheid (Accession 13/2/78)
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination 1966 (Accession 7/3/78)