Cameroon
Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity. The Assembly of Heads of State and
Government may only consider the draft amendment after all the States parties have been duly informed
of it and the Commission has given its opinion on it at the request of the sponsoring State. The
amendment shall be approved by a simple majority of the States parties. It shall come into force for each
State which has accepted it in accordance with its constitutional procedure three months after the
Secretary-General has received notice of the acceptance.
Adopted by the eighteenth Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African
Unity, June 1981 - Nairobi, Kenya.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Source: with the courtesy of the Centre for Human Rights United Nations Office at Geneva 8-14 Avenue
de Is Paix, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland.
Published by Groupe Mauger P.O. Box 183 Yaounde Cameroon
June 1996
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