A/HRC/35/25/Add.1 15. Angola has not signed the International Labour Organization (ILO) Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97), the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143) or the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). B. Regional framework and institutions 16. Angola acceded to the 1969 Organization of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa in 1981. It acceded to the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (the Kampala Convention) in 2013. 17. Angola is a party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. In November 2007, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted resolution 114 on migration and human rights, 4 which recommends that member States: (a) Recognize the importance of the human rights of all migrants, including refugees and internally displaced persons, and ensure that national legislation relating to migration issues is consistent with and does not conflict with international human rights standards and conventions; (b) That have not done so ratify and implement the main regional and international instruments relating to migrants and refugees, in particular the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the African Union Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; implement the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Optional Protocol thereto, which provides for the submission of individual communications, in order to respect the rights of migrant women; (c) Respect the customary international law principle of non-refoulement; make legal requirements for entering a territory more flexible, in order to take into account the needs of asylum seekers; revoke the notion of “safe third country”; strengthen institutional structures for addressing and managing individual asylum requests; respect the right of asylum seekers to contest rulings on asylum status; and improve the reception structures and processes for refugees seeking asylum. African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights 18. In 2008, the issue of mass expulsions of foreigners was addressed by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa v. Angola case. While the case was brought by 14 Gambian citizens, the Commission made some important general observations about the human rights implications of the mass expulsion of foreigners from Angola, and noted that the majority of those affected were from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.5 In examining the case, the Commission found that Angola was in breach of article 12 (5) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which prohibits mass expulsions. Moreover, the Commission held that the Government of Angola had also violated the principle of non-discrimination (art. 2) as the expulsions were carried out in a way that targeted foreign nationals. Furthermore, the Commission found Angola to be in breach of a number of provisions regarding due process of law, including articles 6, 7 (1) (a) and 12 (4), as the migrants 4 5 groups of refugees, and to restrict their freedom of movement, whenever considerations of national or international order make it advisable to do so.” Available from https://treaties.un.org/pages/ ViewDetailsII.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=V-2&chapter=5&Temp=mtdsg2&lang=en#EndDec. See www.achpr.org/sessions/42nd/resolutions/114/. Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa v. Angola (2008) AHRLR 43 (ACHPR 2008). Available from www.chr.up.ac.za/index.php/browse-by-country/angola/198-angola-institute-forhuman-rights-and-development-in-africa-v-angola-2008-ahrlr-achpr-2008-.html, para. 67. 5