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A Memoir: Celebrating 20 Years of the Maputo Protocol

In commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), SOAWR Member Equality Now took on a special initiative to gather statements from presidents, prime ministers, and ministers of the first countries that ratified the Protocol. In instances where the heads of state/government were unavailable, statements were collected from the relevant gender ministers. The intent was to celebrate the milestone achieved through the implementation of the Maputo Protocol by engaging these high-ranking officials and further discussing their plans for commemorating its adoption and

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We are calling on South Sudan to ratify & implement the Maputo Protocol

Join SOAWR’s Raitification Campaign Article Source: Nyamilipedia  April 22, 2022 — An advocacy group, the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), joins the call on the National Transitional Legislative Assembly to ratify the Maputo Protocol in order for South Sudanese women to be free from violence in the country. Holding a virtual CSO Training on Alternative/Shadow Reporting last week in Nairobi, Kenya, under Equality Now, Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) and UNDP, the participants said the purpose of the training was to advocate for shadow or alternative reporting to draw accountability on a State’s implementation of its obligations under CEDAW. Speaking

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Winner’s Essay – African Youth For Maputo Protocol Essay Competition

At the start of their careers, women’s rights advocates often do not have the prerequisite human rights knowledge necessary for women’s rights advocacy, including litigation. Furthermore, where human rights training is incorporated into the curriculum of law schools, this training is often not complemented by practical experience in applying human rights standards. To address this, together with Equality Now, we established the African Youth for Maputo Protocol Essay Competition as part of a pilot project on ways of creating awareness amongst the next generation of women’s rights practitioners. We hope to address the scholarly and experiential gaps in women’s rights

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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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