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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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Africa Gender Equality Moot Court Competition 2024
Pour le français, voir ci-dessous. Register here Download Authorisation Form Since 2020, the SOAWR Coalition and Equality Now have hosted the Africa Gender Equality Moot Court Competition with the primary
Launch of the Africa Gender Equality Moot Court Competition, 3rd edition
THEME: Legal dilemmas of commercial surrogacy in Africa Date: 25th July 2024 Location: Virtual via Zoom Register for the webinar Download the Concept Note A. About the organizers Equality Now
#MaputoAt21
July 11, 2024 At the African Union meeting in Maputo, Mozambique, on 11 July 2003, the AU officially adopted the “Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Article 5(b): Elimination of FGM (with NAFGEM Tanzania)
Welcome to All Things Maputo Protocol – a podcast by the SOAWR Coalition. Join us in the second episode of our first series for the month of March, as we explore