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Part VI. Problems encountered
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General introduction
This work is the result of the endeavor of The Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
National Humanitarian Affairs Committee to finally, after some years of silence, accomplish
its duty of submitting a report under Article 62 of the "African Charter in Human and
Peoples Rights" for the implementation of legislative or other measures taken with a view to
giving effect to humans rights and freedoms.
There was some difficulty in organizing the information, which is widely spread. Particularly
because the last edition of the Seychelles Laws dates from 1996, and since then, many legal
instruments have been derogated or modified, and some new ones have been brought into
force.
Thereafter with the aim of reflecting in the report all the relevant legal dispositions, which
are in force at the present, research was concluded in all the Official Gazettes that have been
published after 1996, and in some cases even before that date.
For the completion of the Report use has been made of the "Guidelines to Periodic
Reporting under Article 62 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights". The first
four parts of the document follow exactly the format supplied by the "Guidelines" until part
4 (see Table of Content).
Part 4 of the Guidelines requires the implementation by the parties of civil, political,
economic, social, cultural, and group rights; which, is a classification that includes all the
human rights enshrined by the Charter. Thereafter part IV of the report document, follows
the implementation of each one of the Articles of the Charter by the national law.
In the Report a decision has been taken not to include data information or lengthy
comments for each right; however, supremacy has been given to the implementation by the
Seychelles law of each one of the Articles of the African Charter on Human and Peoples
Rights.