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