As African leaders met in Abuja, Nigeria, for the 4th African Union (AU) Assembly Ordinary Session, Amnesty International called on the AU Assembly and the AU Executive Council to reaffirm and strengthen their commitments to establish an effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Human Rights Court). During its 2nd Ordinary Session in July 2003 in Maputo, the AU Assembly decided that the African Human Rights Court "shall remain a separate and distinct institution from the Court of Justice of the African Union." However, the Assembly at its 3rd Ordinary Session in July 2004 in Addis Ababa reversed this decision, when it decided that "the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Court of Justice should be integrated into one Court". This decision has now resulted in a Draft Protocol merging the two courts.