request an in-depth study.

Article 59
1.

All measures taken within the provisions of the present Charter shall remain
confidential until such a time as the Assembly of Heads of State and Government
shall otherwise decide.

2.

However, the report shall be published by the Chairman of the Commission upon the
decision of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government.

3.

The report on the activities of the Commission shall be published by its Chairman
after it has been considered by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government.

Chapter IV -- Applicable Principles

Article 60
The Commission shall draw inspiration from international law on human and peoples'
rights, particularly from the provisions of various African instruments on human and
peoples' rights, the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization of
African Unity, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, other instruments adopted by
the United Nations and by African countries in the field of human and peoples' rights as
well as from the provisions of various instruments adopted within the Specialized Agencies
of the United Nations of which the parties to the present Charter are members.

Article 61
The Commission shall also take into consideration, as subsidiary measures to determine the
principles of law, other general or special international conventions, laying down rules
expressly recognized by member states of the Organization of African Unity, African
practices consistent with international norms on human and people's rights, customs
generally accepted as law, general principles of law recognized by African states as well as
legal precedents and doctrine.

Article 62
Each state party shall undertake to submit every two years, from the date the present
Charter comes into force, a report on the legislative or other measures taken with a view to
giving effect to the rights and freedoms recognized and guaranteed by the present Charter.

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