issue: Right to peace
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.
Support the Empowerment of Women and their Rights for Development (STEWARD Women)’s mission is to develop, shape and empower South Sudanese women to advocate for policies that foster equal economic opportunity and secure human rights for women and children. We work under five thematic program areas, namely: access to justice and the rule of law, psychosocial support, community security, women economic empowerment and sexual and reproductive health.
The Oxfam Pan Africa Programme (PAP) works with African citizens through their formations so as to achieve their aspirations for justice, equality, sustainable development and stability through improving the implementation of continental mechanisms and commitments. One of the thematic work of the PAP is Gender Justice and through this we seek to advance women’s rights by strengthening women’s capacity to collectively demand for their rights as enshrined in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol)(2003) and ensuring effective gender mainstreaming in all of the Oxfam’s work.
The Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) was formed in 1996 as a sub-regional, non-profit organisation that strengthens the capacity of women and civil society organisations in governance, leadership, economic empowerment, policy advocacy initiatives and peace and security. EASSI recognises the worth of all persons and the value of diversity and non-discrimination. EASSI works in nine countries namely; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Somalia through its member organisations.
This 28 September 2023 marks the global day of action for access to safe and legal abortion. We, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (SRRWA) of
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