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Resolution on Mandela Rules from The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, April 2016
A resolution was adopted at the 58th Ordinary Session of The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights on the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson Mandela Rules)
The Resolution:
- encourages all stakeholders to draw inspiration from the Mandela Rules in order to fill the existing gaps in the applicable laws, policies and practice with the view to enhance a better treatment for detainees;
- commits itself through the work of the Special Rapporteur on Prisons, Conditions of Detention and Policing in Africa, to collaborate with Partners and other stakeholders to promote and disseminate the Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules).
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