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A New Practical Guide on Using the Groundbreaking Protocol on Rights of Women in Africa
This Guide provides step-by-step guidance for using the Protocol at local, national, and regional levels. It explains how to bring women’s rights abuses that violate the Protocol before domestic courts and regional justice mechanisms like the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and analyzes key cases related to women’s rights decided by the African Commission.
Interview with Saudatu Mahdi
Programme Coordinator, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternatives, Nigeria
Interview with Anna Henga
Interview with Anna Henga, Programme Coordinator, Tanzanian Legal and Human Rights Centre
FEMNET launches book on FOI and women’s rights
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), a pan-African network working to promote women’s human rights in Africa launched, on 24/10/2010, a book on the freedom of information (FOI) and women’s rights in Africa at the third and final day of the African Union (AU) pre-summit on gender in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The chairperson of FEMENT Mama Koite Doumbia
Interview with Ms Faiza Mohamed
In 2003, the Africa Union (AU) adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. Today, only 27 countries have ratified. It is only Rwanda, to the best of my knowledge, that has done a comprehensive review of its laws to {{to make them compatible with the AU women’s protocol.