Publications

Policy Briefs

Policy briefs speak to the primary mandate of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) which is to provide a collection, collation, analysis and dissemination of legal information to PALU Members, Governments, Intergovernmental Organisations and additional users. The said Briefs are used to disseminate information and foster debate on possibilities of engaging the various Organs and Institutions of the African Union (AU), Regional Economic Communities, and additional Intergovernmental Bodies more comprehensively creatively and proactively, on matters of constitutionalism, democracy, good governance, rule of law, human and peoples' rights, peace and security, regional integration and continental unity.

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Policy Brief No. 1 Matrix of Key Implementation Organs, Institutions and Mechanisms under the AU System

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Policy Brief No. 2 Matrix of African Intergovernmental Courts and Tribunals

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Policy Brief No. 3 Tabulation of Cases Filed or Concluded before the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights from Inception till 31st August 2012

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Policy Brief No. 4 Tabulation of Cases Filed or Concluded before the East African Court of Justice from Inception till 31st August 2012

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Policy Brief No. 5 International Criminal Justice in Africa

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Policy Brief No. 6 Curtailing Illicit Financial Flows: Human rights obligations of states and non-state actors in respect of illicit financial flows

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Policy Brief No. 7 Curtailing Illicit Financial Flows: Tackling The Professional Enablers Of IFFs- A Focus On Lawyers

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Policy Brief No. 8 Curtailing Illicit Financial Flows: The Human Rights Obligation To States To Mobilise The Maximum Available Resources

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Policy Brief No. 9 Curtailing Illicit Financial Flows: Pan-African Unity And Solidarity To End Financial Secrecy

The PALU Guide to Complementarity within the African Human Rights System (AHRS)

The PALU Guide to Complementarity within the AHRS serves as a valuable tool for litigants and citizens, highlighting the strategies that they may utilise to initiate motions for complementarity, and further provide them with templates and precedents. The Guide discusses complementarity within the broader spectrum of the AHRS including the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Courts of Regional Economic Communities recognised by the AU.

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The PALU Guide to Complementarity within the AHRS

The Pan African Yearbook of Law (Volume I and Volume II)

The Pan African Yearbook of Law (Volume I and Volume II) contain articles analysing a variety of Africa legal issues to engage lawyers, academics, and the general public. Both Yearbooks link with PALU's mission to be at the vanguard of the development of law on the African Continent.

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Pan African Yearbook of Law, Volume I

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Pan African Yearbook of Law, Volume II

Core Documents

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Introducing PALU

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Présentation de l'Union panafricaine des avocats

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PALU’s Constitution

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Les Statuts de l'Union panafricaine des avocats

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Constituição da União Pan-africana dos Advogados

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Communique Of the Inaugural Colloquium of Legal Scholars on the AHRS

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Communique issu du colloque inaugural des juristes sur le système des droits de l’homme en Afrique

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Memorandum of Understanding Establishing the Framework for Cooperation and Collaboration between the AU and PALU

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Strategic Thematic Orientations 2014 - 2018

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Orientations thématiques stratégiques 2014 - 2018

Other Publications

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The HLP Report on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa

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Practitioners Guide To the East African Court of Justice

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Advocacy Manual for Lawyers’ Association in the Global South

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Manual for Litigants when accessing the Ecowas Court of Justice

Brochures

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Brochure: About PALU

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Brochure: À propos de l’Union panafricaine des avocats

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PALU Membership Brochure

African Human Rights Action Plan 2017-2026

PALU at Court | Litigation
African Human Rights Action Plan 2017-2026
Commitment to the Code of Ethics