2012
THE AFRICAN COURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES RIGHTS, ARUSHA TZ
director: Marcel Kolvenbach
camera: Patrick Verstraete, Mustaque Abdulah
anchor/presenter/Narrator: Achola Rosario
Soundtrack: Martin Vansteenkiste
executive Producer: Dr. Iris Breutz, GIZ
production: film4change Uganda & Cams and Grips Production Kampala
A journalistic exploration of the African Court‘s mission, its judges, and the gap between its ideals and realities of human rights violations.
More than 60 years, after the UN adopted the declaration of Human Rights, and over 30 years after the African Union adopted its own charter on human and peoples rights. The African Court was created pursuant to a protocol to the Banjul Charter adopted in 1998 in Burkina Faso by the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The protocol came into force on 25 January 2004, following ratification by more than 15 countries. Still the human and peoples rights are still being violated in large parts of the African continent by war, instability, famine, violence and corruption. Ugandan investigative reporter Ahola Rosario travels to Arusa to discuss the issue and confront the elected judges of the court from several states at the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights with the gap between the adopted goals and the realities. The project was financed by GIZ Tanzania