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#MaputoAt22: Our Rights Are Non-Negotiable

Today, on 11 July 2025, we mark 22 years since the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the ‘Maputo Protocol’: a landmark moment in Africa’s legal and political history. But this year’s commemoration comes at a time when the rights enshrined in the Protocol are facing new and intensifying threats. From rising violence and regressive laws to coordinated attacks on bodily autonomy and women’s rights defenders, the gains hard-won by African women’s movements are under siege. But the SOAWR Coalition is not backing

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5th Edition of the SOAWR Journal

Download the Journal It’s the 20th Anniversary of the SOAWR Coalition! In September 2004, several women’s rights organisations in Africa formally came together in solidarity to advocate for the adoption, ratification, domestication and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol). We are thrilled to share our journey in this 5th Edition of the SOAWR Journal in which we celebrate the Coalition’s growth, and forecast the future – A feminist imaging: SOAWR at 40. This fifth edition provides an overview of the implementation of the

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Press Release: SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE AFRICAN UNION (AU)

Download English Press Release The Solidarity for African Women’s Rights is a coalition of over 70 civil society organizations working across 33 countries. SOAWR works to ensure that the rights of girls and women as articulated in the Protocol to the African Charter on  Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (“the Maputo  Protocol”) are prioritized by policymakers on the African continent.  On the heels of celebrating two decades of promoting and protecting the rights of women and girls in Africa, we are dismayed to learn of the alleged sexual harassment of the Bilingual Secretary of

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Solidarity for African Women's rights (SOAWR) is a coalition of over 70 civil society organisations across
the continent working to ensure that the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in
Africa remains on the agenda of policy makers and to urge all African leaders to safeguard the rights
of women through ratification and implementation of the Protocol.

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