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: Niger
Cadre législatif des droits des filles et des femmes en Afrique de l’Ouest || Legislative framework for girls’ and women’s rights in West Africa
L’équipe du Réseau des Femmes Leaders pour le Développement est fière de publier notre Nouveau Rapport intitulé “Cadre législatif des droits des filles et des femmes en Afrique de l’Ouest’. Ce rapport met à jour met à jour le cadre législatif avec focus sur les femmes dans les 15 pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest à noter : Bénin, Togo, Niger, Nigéria, Sénégal, Mali, Cap-Vert, Guinée-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Gambie, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, et la Guinée. Toutes les lois ont été mises à jour jusqu’à 2023. Les problématiques sur la violence basée sur le Genre (VBG), des Droits à la
Aural Versions of the Maputo Protocol
To increase accessibility, thanks to SOAWR Member, RFLD, the Maputo Protocol can be listened to in the following languages: Goun/Gun-Gbe Haoussa/Hausa Yorouba Zarma
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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