Resources

AFORBO’s work is grounded in a body of international, continental, and interfaith instruments that affirm freedom of religion or belief as a fundamental human right. This page brings together the key legal and policy documents that guide the Observatory’s monitoring, advocacy, and research, alongside AFORBO’s own founding documents. Each external document opens on the website of the body that issued it.

AFORBO Documents

• AFORBO Institutional Handbook (2026) — the Observatory’s principal reference document.

AFORBO’s founding instruments — the Charter, the Bylaws, and the Terms of Reference — are summarised in the Handbook; full texts are available on request.

International Instruments

• Charter of the United Nations (1945)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
• Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (1981)

Continental Instruments — African Union

• African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Banjul Charter, 1981/1986)
• Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000)
• Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want
• Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol, 2003)

Interfaith & Thematic Declarations

• Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together (2019)
• Dignitatis Humanae — Declaration on Religious Freedom (1965)
• The Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities (2016)