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National Human Rights Bodies
Congo
- EnglishThe law determines the missions and establishes the organization and the functioning of the National Commission of the Rights of Man. (Art. 216)
- FrenchLa loi détermine les missions et fixe l’organisation et le fonctionnement de la Commission nationale des droits de l’homme. (Art. 216)
National Human Rights Bodies
Ghana
- EnglishThe office of the Ombudsman in existence immediately before the coming into force of this Constitution shall, until the President appoints the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice and his Deputies, and provision is otherwise made, continue as if it forms part of the Office of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice. (First Schedule, Transitional Provisions, Art. 11)
National Human Rights Bodies
Mauritius
- English1. Subject to this section, the Ombudsman may investigate any action taken by any officer or authority to which this section applies in the exercise of administrative functions of that officer or authority, in any case in which a member of, the public claims, or appears to the Ombudsman, to have sustained injustice in consequence of maladministration in connection with the action so taken and in which
a. a complaint under this section is made;
b. he is invited to do so by any Minister or other member of the Assembly; or
c. he considers it desirable to do so of his own motion.
… (Sec. 97)