country: South Africa
Well Being Africa (WBA) is a South African organisation that envisions African communities where people are healthy, empowered and thriving in maximising their potential. Its core values are engrained in integrity, service, empowerment, respect, and teamwork.
This policy brief makes a case for South Africa to lift its reservations to the Maputo Protocol. South Africa, together with other African Union Members, committed to the universal ratification, full domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol by 2020.
The Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to end violence against women (Tshwaranang) is a registered non-governmental organisation (NGO) that was established in 1996 in South Africa to promote and defend the rights of women to be free from violence and to have access to quality effective services.
The Centre for Human Rights is both an academic department and a non-governmental organisation, and works towards human rights education in Africa, a greater awareness of human rights, the wide dissemination of publications on human rights in Africa, and the improvement of the rights of women, people living with HIV, indigenous peoples, sexual minorities and other disadvantaged or marginalised persons or groups across the continent.
See SOAWR’s full statement as read on October 13th, 2026 at the 89th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Dakar, Senegal. Read the Full
Today, 11 July 2026, marks 23 years since African governments made a promise to the women and girls of this continent. On this day in 2003, the African Union adopted
July 2, 2026 “A Nation that Silences its Bravest Daughters Betrays its Future.” The SOAWR Coalition stands in solidarity with our sisters and partners in Uganda. We are extremely concerned
See SOAWR’s full statement as read on May 12th, 2026 at the 87th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia. Read the
