The African Women's Protocol

The African Women's Protocol PDF Author: Rosemary Semafumu Mukasa
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Evaluating the impact of the African Women's Protocol, this important study focuses on three African countries--South Africa, Zambia, and Mozambique--and presents a map for the road ahead. Through careful research and in-depth investigation, the guide explores in practice the rights ratified for women by the protocol, such as reproductive rights, the prohibition of female genital mutilation, and economic and social welfare rights. The rights of particularly vulnerable groups of women, including widows, elderly women, disabled women and "women in distress"--which includes poor women, women from marginalized population groups, and pregnant or nursing women in detention--are specifically recognized.

The African Women's Protocol

The African Women's Protocol PDF Author: Rosemary Semafumu Mukasa
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
Evaluating the impact of the African Women's Protocol, this important study focuses on three African countries--South Africa, Zambia, and Mozambique--and presents a map for the road ahead. Through careful research and in-depth investigation, the guide explores in practice the rights ratified for women by the protocol, such as reproductive rights, the prohibition of female genital mutilation, and economic and social welfare rights. The rights of particularly vulnerable groups of women, including widows, elderly women, disabled women and "women in distress"--which includes poor women, women from marginalized population groups, and pregnant or nursing women in detention--are specifically recognized.

Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

Patriarchy and Gender in Africa PDF Author: Veronica Fynn Bruey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793638578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies, expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.

The impact of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in selected African states

The impact of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in selected African states PDF Author: Kounkinè Augustin Somé
Publisher: PULP
ISBN: 192053847X
Category : African Charter on Human and People's Rights (1981) 2003 July 11
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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The year 2016 was declared by the African Union as the African ‘Year of Human Rights with Particular Focus on the Rights of Women’ to commemorate and celebrate significant milestones in the realisation of human rights on the African continent. The year marks the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter), 30th year since coming into force of the African Charter and 10 years since the inauguration of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Since its adoption, the African Charter has been supplemented by the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol). All AU member states (with the exception of new comer South Sudan) are state parties to the African Charter, and 36 of them have accepted the Maputo Protocol. This book assesses the impact and effectiveness of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in 17 African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The book is the result of research conducted by selected alumni of the Centre for Human Rights’ LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa programme.

Breathing Life Into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa

Breathing Life Into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa PDF Author: Roselynn Musa
Publisher: Fahamu Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The groundbreaking protocol on the rights of women in Africa commits the states signing it to eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. This book looks at its provisions and the strategies used to ensure its ratification and implementation.

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: a commentary

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: a commentary PDF Author: Frans Viljoen
Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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The first in a series of PULP commentaries on African human rights law, under the series title: PULP Commentaries on African human rights law Since its adoption on 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) has become a landmark on the African human rights landscape. It has steadily gained prominence as a trail-blazing instrument, responsive to the diverse realities of women on the African continent. This comprehensive Commentary on the Maputo Protocol, the first of its kind, provides systematic analysis of each article of the Protocol, delving into the drafting history, and elaborating on relevant key concepts and normative standards. This Commentary aims to be a ‘one-stop-shop’ for anyone interested in the Maputo Protocol, such as researchers, teachers, students, practitioners, policymakers and activists.

The Africa Women's Protocol

The Africa Women's Protocol PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855986414
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Africa Women's Protocol) was adopted on 11 July 2003 during the Heads of State and Government of the African Union Summit held in Maputo, Mozambique. The Protocol entered into force after it received the necessary 15 State Party ratifications on 25 November 2005. The Protocol provides a continent-wide legal framework for addressing gender inequality and the underlying aspects of the way that society is organized that perpetuate women's subordination and contribute to their marginalization and their occupation of the lower strata in all spheres of life. As part of its strategy to promote gender equality and women's empowerment, Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports a number of partner organizations to advocate for the universal ratification, popularization, domestication, implementation, and monitoring of the Africa Women's Protocol. These Programme Insights papers reflect some of the key strategies that partner organizations have used during these processes. This publication is a series of seven stapled papers in a folder.

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa PDF Author: Annika Rudman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776411788
Category : African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Since its adoption on 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) has become a landmark on the African human rights landscape. It has steadily gained prominence as a trail-blazing instrument, responsive to the diverse realities of women on the African continent. This comprehensive Commentary on the Maputo Protocol, the first of its kind, provides systematic analysis of each article of the Protocol, delving into the drafting history, and elaborating on relevant key concepts and normative standards.This Commentary aims to be a 'one-stop-shop' for anyone interested in the Maputo Protocol, such as researchers, teachers, students, practitioners,policymakers and activists."--Publisher's description.

The impact of the Maputo Protocol in selected African states

The impact of the Maputo Protocol in selected African states PDF Author: Susan Mutambasere
Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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This book assesses the impact and effectiveness of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) in 16 state parties. These countries are: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eswatini, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Each of the chapters traces the impact that the Protocol has had on the policies, laws, court decisions, civil society activism, and legal education in the particular state. Each chapter also discusses the relationship of the state with the African human rights mechanisms. The book is an update of two prior volumes of essays, titled The impact of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in selected African states, published by PULP in 2012 and 2016, and edited by the Centre for Human Rights, Universityof Pretoria (Centre) and Victor Ayeni, respectively. The third edition, focused more narrowly on the Maputo Protocol, appears as the continent marks 20 years since the adoption of the Protocol on 11 July 2003. By 11 July 2023, 54 out of 55 African Union member states (with the exception of Morocco) have become party to the African Charter, and 44 of them have accepted the Maputo Protocol. The book is edited by and contains several chapters by alumni of the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa programme of the Centre. The Centre intends to use this research as the basis for a continuously updated database on the impact of the African Charter and Maputo Protocol.

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789783853591
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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The Impact of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa on Violence Against Women in Six Selected Southern African Countries

The Impact of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa on Violence Against Women in Six Selected Southern African Countries PDF Author:
Publisher: PULP
ISBN: 0981442013
Category : African Charter on Human and People's Rights
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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