Category: Respect
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Launch of African Women’s Decade: Women’s rights must top decade’s agenda
Discrimination against women remains firmly established in law and in practice in the majority of African countries. Women are denied…
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Kenya – Launch of African Women’s Decade – Concrete steps required to demonstrate government’s will to respect women’s rights
Campaign “Africa for women’s rights: ratify and respect!”International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)Kenyan Human Rights Commission (KHCR) JOINT PRESS RELEASE…
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Uganda becomes the 28th State Party to the Maputo Protocol!
The Coalition of the Campaign welcomes the ratification by Uganda of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and…
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Mali: Call for urgent adoption of the new Family Code without weakening of its provisions
We, NGOs gathered during the NGO Forum of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and actors of…
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Dossier of Claims: Zimbabwe
RATIFY! Although Zimbabwe has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Protocol…
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Commit To The Protection Of Women’s Rights!
The coalition of the campaign “Africa for women’s rights : ratify and respect !” issues a call to states that…
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Rwanda: Final steps towards the adoption of a law to combat gender violence
Adoption of new law must be accompanied by measures to ensure its implementation Despite the official discourse promoting gender equality,…
