Africa's first women's rights legal framework has the potential to benefit millions of women when governments not only ratify but also ensure its domestication in national laws, with accompanying ...

The African Union Commission (AUC)’s Women, Gender and Development Directorate (WGDD) has kicked off a series of engagement on the validation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People ...

To mark the 20 th Anniversary of the Maputo Protocol and to promote the continued adoption and implementation of its progressive provisions, the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights Coalition (SOAWR) ...

On 11 July 2003, the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa was adopted in Maputo, Mozambique, thereby becoming known as the Maputo Protocol. To celebrate two decades of the ...

On July 11, 2023, African nations commemorated two decades since the inception of the Maputo Protocol, a momentous and progressive legal framework for women's rights, widely regarded as one of the ...

July 2025 marks 22 years since the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa ( ) - known as the Maputo Protocol - by the African ...

THE Nigerian government and governments of other African countries have been charged to prioritise the lives and wellbeing of women and girls by domesticating the Maputo protocol. The Maputo protocol ...

Maputo — "Women are born to live and not to die", declared Mozambique's former first lady, Graca Machel on Saturday. Machel, who currently heads one of Mozambique's best-known NGOs, the Community ...

Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Six million abortions in 2011; wide spread of practices such as sterilization of women; systematic use of contraception and birth control methods, which promote a program of ...

Women wait for a medical examination at the health centre in Gbangbegouine village, western Ivory Coast, July 4, 2013. REUTERS/Luc Gnago As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the ...

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), the Coalition of the campaign, Africa for ...