SOAWR Statement – ACHPR 79th Ordinary Session
This statement was given by Alliances for Africa (AfA) on behalf of the SOAWR Coalition at the 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR).
country: Chad
The Maputo Protocol is now available in Zarma and Hausa
Through the All for Maputo Protocol Initiative, supported by Sida and Equality Now, SOAWR member Réseau des Femmes Leaders pour le Développement (RFLD) has translated the Maputo Protocol into the languages of Hausa and Zarma. Hausa is a language spoken by the Hausa people in Chad, and mainly within the northern half of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and the southern half of Niger, with significant minorities in Sudan, Benin and Côte d’Ivoire. According to Britannica, the Hausa language is the most important indigenous lingua franca in West and Central Africa, spoken as a first or second language by about 40–50 million people. Zarma is
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Read the petition: EN Lire la pétition: FR Ahead of the 20th Anniversary of the Maputo Protocol on 11 July 2023, the SOAWR Coalition maintains its ratification campaign for the remaining 11 Member States who are yet to ratify the women’s rights treaty: Botswana, Burundi, Central African Rep., Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Somalia and Sudan. The Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition urges the remaining 11 African Union Member States to ACCEDE TO the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. For more resources on lobbying your
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