The African Union’s continental human rights court docket, the African Courtroom on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR), obtained a setback this previous March when Tunisia withdrew its declaration, below Article 34(6) of the Courtroom’s founding Protocol, permitting people and NGOs to immediately entry the Courtroom. Tunisia accounts for twenty-four (7%) of the 371 functions to the African Courtroom so far, and the two-thirds of functions nonetheless pending (and people submitted earlier than the withdrawal enters into pressure) will proceed as regular. Nevertheless, as soon as the withdrawal takes impact in March 2026, Tunisians can be disadvantaged of a possible avenue for accountability for human rights abuses throughout a interval of accelerating authoritarianism in Tunisia.
