Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 10/2008

Programme Insights: The Africa Women’s Protocol -- Monitoring the Implementation of Women's Human- Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa Gender Monitor

February 2008

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

This paper illustrates the efforts of women's-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women's human-rights instruments such as the Africa Women's Protocol in Africa, using the example of the Africa Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Monitor (known as the Africa Gender Monitor or AGM).