CIAO DATE: 10/2008
February 2008
About the Africa Women's Protocol
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 second ordinary 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 continental legal framework for addressing the issues of gender inequality and the underlying aspects of society’s arrangement that perpetuate women’s subordination and contribute to their marginalisation and their occupation of the lower strata in all spheres of life.
This series of programme insights papers highlights some of the work undertaken by Oxfam GB’s partners in Southern Africa to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Africa Women’s Protocol.
Resource link: Programme Insights: The Africa Women’s Protocol -- Policy, Advocacy and Programming on the Africa Women’s Protocol: Overview of Oxfam GB’s Support to Women’s Rights Organisations and Government Stakeholders in Southern Africa [PDF] - 229K