Women, water and sanitation
What should African leaders take into account when thinking about how to meet these goals and those of The African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa?
region: North Africa
Second Anniversary of the Maputo Protocol: Challenges ahead
What gains and what challenges do we have two years after the entry into force of the Protocol? This is the overall question that the various articles presented in this special issue of Pambazuka aim at addressing. What clearly emerges is that the challenges outweigh the gains made so far.
Maputo Protocol: from ratification to the realisation of African women’s human rights
The conference seeks to chart out the next steps for the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women. With 13 countries having ratified the Protocol, attention needs to shift from a focus on campaigning for ratification to strategies for domestication and implementation for rights realisation by African women and girls.
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SOAWR’s Statement at the 87th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR
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
SOAWR at CSW70
We are delighted to invite you to join the SOAWR Coalition and our member organisations at the 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) in New
SOAWR Communiqué on the AU-CEVAWG
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SOAWR’s Statement at the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
This statement by Alliances for Africa (Observer Status Number 235) on behalf of the SOAWR Coalition was prepared in Abuja, Nigeria, on 30th September 2025 and read at the 85th