AFSA Constitution
AFSA Constitution
The Constitution of the African Forensic Sciences Academy (AFSA) was endorsed by its Executive and shall be adhered to by all members of AFSA
ARTICLE I Definition of AFSA:
AFSA is a voluntary, non-political, non-profit, scientific organisation open to all practitioners in all
Forensic Sciences fields without distinction of gender, origin, race, or creed, in accordance with the
mission and values stated below.
AFSA works toward promoting Forensic Sciences in its broad definition as defined in the Sydney
Declaration – revisiting the essence of forensic science through its fundamental principles per the 2022 version (doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111182) Thus for AFSA Forensic sciences are defined as “a case-
based (or multi-case-based) research-oriented, science-based endeavour to study traces – the remnants of past activities (such as an individual’s presence and actions) – through their detection,
recognition, recovery, examination, and interpretation to understand anomalous events of public
interest (e.g., crimes, security incidents)”.