Maputo Protocol
26 Aug
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has called on African countries to domesticate the Maputo protocol, an international human rights instrument on the protection of rights of women in the continent. This is as the organisation stressed the need for stakeholders to employ the use of technology to accelerate the domestication of the protocol.…
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To celebrate the gains made since the adoption of the Maputo Protocol and take stock of how the lived realities of women and girls in Africa have been impacted by its ratification, domestication and implementation, the protocol marked its 20th anniversary recently.
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Poised to ensure that women’s rights are upheld in Anglophone West-African (AWA) countries with the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), Baobab for Women’s Human Rights is set to champion this cause.
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