The ACHPR Tigray Investigation was an African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) investigation of human rights violations occurring in the Tigray War including extrajudicial executions of civilians and sexual violence.
The Commission of Inquiry into the Situation in the Tigray Region was established for a renewable period of three months, with a mandate to investigate gross human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions of civilians and sexual violence, by collecting evidence, identifying perpetrators, determining the underlying causes, and reporting results and making recommendations to prevent patterns of human rights violations from continuing.
[3] The commission's headquarters are in Banjul, with the aim of travelling to Ethiopia and "neighbouring countries when conditions are met".
The four other members initially included in the commission were Maya Sahli-Fadel, Hatem Essaiem, Maria Teresa Manuela and Mudford Zachariah Mwandenga.
[1] In August 2021, human rights experts Fatsah Ouguergouz, Soyata Maïga and Lucy Asuagbor were retrospectively appointed as of June 2021.