News from SOAWR
The Maputo Protocol is a ground-breaking women’s rights legal instrument that expands and reinforces the rights provided in other human rights instruments. The Protocol provides a broad range of economic and social welfare rights for women. Importantly it was produced by Africans and pays attention to the concerns of African women.
AWID interviewed Faiza Jama Mohamed, Director of Equality Now about the Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) campaign for the ratification and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women also known as the Maputo Protocol or the African Women’s Protocol (hereafter referred to as the Protocol).
Read more:
http://awid.org/News-Analysis/Friday-Files/African-women-s-organizing-for-the-ratification-and-implementation-of-the-Maputo-Protocol
Posted by on 14 Nov 2011 around 11am | Permalink | Filed under:
EQUALITY NOW, AFRICA OFFICE, NAIROBI, KENYA
Equality Now, an international human rights organization dedicated to ending violence and discrimination against women and girls globally is looking for a Program Officer with experience in human rights work focusing on using international human rights instruments to protect the rights of women and girls. Based in the Nairobi Office of Equality Now, Kenya, the program officer’s prime responsibility will be for the coordination of a pan-African coalition advocating for the ratification and domestication of the African Union (AU) Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. S/he will report to the Nairobi Office Director. The successful candidate will be responsible for coordination of the AU Protocol campaign run by the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) coalition; monitoring and assisting in the implementation of the Protocol campaign objectives; preparing for national and regional advocacy and lobbying activities; responsible for reporting to partners; publication of the coalition newsletter quarterly; writing and editing articles; research on human rights issues affecting women and girls; managing information and content for the coalition website and list serve and establishing and maintaining contacts with organisations campaigning for the respect and promotion of human rights.The program officer will also be required to undertake some other advocacy work for in Africa.
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Posted by on 11 Oct 2011 around 8am | Permalink | Filed under:
Report on the participation of the SOAWR Coalition in the activities of the 17th session of the Executive Counciland 17th Ordinary Session of the Assemby of the African Union in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
The report was written by Equality Now and African Women's and Development and communication Network(FEMNET).
Click here to download report
Posted by on 27 Jul 2011 around 7am | Permalink | Filed under:
HOW-TO-GUIDE WILL EQUIP ACTIVISTS WITH STRONG TOOLS TO PROTECT AND ADVANCE AFRICAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Click here to download the guide
Nairobi, Kenya – Equality Now in conjunction with Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) is delighted to announce the release of A Guide to Using the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa for Legal Action. The release of this manual comes 5 years after the Protocol came into force. “We hope African lawyers and women’s rights advocates find the manual useful and it gives them hands-on guidance on how best to apply the remarkable standards of the Protocol in cases of violations of women’s rights,” said Faiza Jama Mohamed, Nairobi Office Director of Equality Now, which convenes SOAWR, a coalition of 37 civil society organizations working to ensure that the Women’s Protocol is ratified and implemented across the continent.
Posted by on 15 Jul 2011 around 12pm | Permalink | Filed under:
The Solidarity for African Women’s Rights coalition (SOAWR), a coalition of 37 organizations based in 21 African countries, congratulates the Republic of Equatorial Guinea on its deposit of its instrument of ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Protocol). The Minister of Gender, Ms. Eulalia Envo Bela, deposited the instrument to the African Union (AU) Commission, represented by Chairperson Jean Ping, on June 29th prior to the 17th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU being held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea from 30 June to 1
July 2011. Press Statement | Photos
Posted by on 01 Jul 2011 around 2pm | Permalink | Filed under:
The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: Reflecting back on 2010, looking to 2011 in Nigeria
Interview with Saudatu Mahdi, Programme Coordinator, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternatives, Nigeria
Posted by on 05 May 2011 around 12pm | Permalink | Filed under:
The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: Reflecting back on 2010, looking to 2011 in Tanzania
Interview with Anna Henga, Programme Coordinator, Tanzanian Legal and Human Rights Centre
Posted by on 05 May 2011 around 12pm | Permalink | Filed under:
As the African Heads of State and Government meet during the 16th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, under the theme-“Towards Greater Unity and Integration through Shared Values, the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition congratulates the African Union for elaborating a comprehensive framework on gender equality and women’s empowerment as a shared value.
‘The African Union has a comprehensive set of shared values on gender equality and women’s rights. What African women need is action on commitments made by their leaders at the national level to protect, promote and fulfil women’s rights.'
Download the Press Release (pdf)
Posted by on 24 Feb 2011 around 11am | Permalink | Filed under:
SOAWR members, in a lobbying mission in Uganda, celebrate after the announcement of the upcoming ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Posted by on 27 Jan 2011 around 2pm | Permalink | Filed under:
( Kamla Bhasin)--
A father asks his daughter:
Study? Why should you study?
I have sons aplenty who can study
Girl, why should you study?
Posted by on 08 Sep 2010 around 9am | Permalink | Filed under:
East African Caravan on Maternal Health arrives in Kampala on July 14th, 2010
An estimated 536 000 maternal deaths occurred worldwide in 2005. Slightly more than half - 270 000 - of these preventable and unnecessary deaths occurred in the sub-Saharan Africa region alone.
Posted by on 19 Jul 2010 around 2pm | Permalink | Filed under:
(Wambui E. Karanja)-- Mozambican women celebrate a new law that protects them from violence-- On 11 July 2003, the heads of State and government of the African Union (AU) adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Posted by on 19 Feb 2010 around 5pm | Permalink | Filed under:
(Mary Robinson blogs on her recent visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)-- African women are on the move in an extraordinary way, and are determined to make their voices heard and their influence count – particularly on issues of peace and security.
Posted by on 10 Feb 2010 around 1pm | Permalink | Filed under:
(SOAWR)--The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), a pan-African network working to promote women's human rights in Africa launched, on 24/10/2010, a book on the freedom of information (FOI) and women’s rights in Africa at the third and final day of the African Union (AU) pre-summit on gender in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Posted by on 26 Jan 2010 around 11am | Permalink | Filed under:
(SOAWR)-- Greater women empowerment, training on gender issues, reform of legal systems and a sanction imposition are some of the strategies the Africa Union (AU) should adopt in 2010: the Year for Peace, according to gender experts meeting ahead of the AU summit.
Posted by on 24 Jan 2010 around 1pm | Permalink | Filed under: Violence against women
(SOAWR)--In 2003, the Africa Union (AU) adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. Today, only 27 countries have ratified. It is only Rwanda, to the best of my knowledge, that has done a comprehensive review of its laws to [to make them compatible with the AU women’s protocol. There is renewed push to ratify as more women continue suffering from acts of violence in peaceful countries and those in conflicts.
Posted by on 24 Jan 2010 around 1pm | Permalink | Filed under: Violence against women
(SOAWR)-- Report findings from 18 African countries out of the 53, indicate that only 34 per cent of the member states have honoured the commitment of subsequent reporting on progress made in implementing the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA) as required under article12. The report also indicates that although there has been progress made in institutionalising gender in government ministries, there is still lack of sufficient information on key programme executed.
Posted by on 24 Jan 2010 around 1pm | Permalink | Filed under: Violence against women
(SOAWR)-- The third African Union (AU) pre-summit on gender begun this Friday 22/01/2010 at the headquarters of the AU Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The pre-summit will have two segments. The first will cover peace and security particularly building participants’ capacity on United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889. The second segment of the pre-summit will address the theme of the summit: ‘Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development’.
Posted by on 23 Jan 2010 around 8am | Permalink | Filed under: Violence against women
Participation of African women in The 8th Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing +15) and The Meeting of African Union Ministers Responsible for Women Affairs and Gender
Banjul, The Gambia, November 13-21, 2009
The year 2010 will mark 15 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). This is an opportunity for women in Africa to examine their respective government’s efforts at implementing the BPfA since the last review in 2004, and hold them accountable for commitments they made to women’s human rights. Women’s organisations will also be able to intensify efforts to ensure that the targets and goals set in the BPfA are achieved, especially as part of the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Posted by on 09 Dec 2009 around 4pm | Permalink | Filed under:
VAWnet is an online resource for advocates working to end domestic violence, sexual assault, and other violence in the lives of women and their children.
VAWnet's eNewsletter provides monthly updates on new resources available online. View highlights and download issues in pdf format at http://new.vawnet.org/category/index_pages?category_id=726
Posted by on 26 Nov 2009 around 2pm | Permalink | Filed under: Violence against women
Read SOAWR's policy briefing 'How States can deliver on the AU Declaration for an African Women’s Decade 2010-2020' for African delegations attending the AU Ministerial Conference of Gender Ministers and the 8th African Regional Conference on Women to review 15 years of the Beijing Platform of Action, The Gambia, November 2009.
Download pdf file (English)
Download pdf file (French)
Posted by on 10 Nov 2009 around 4pm | Permalink | Filed under:
Equality Now and Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) Coalition convened a meeting on 'Global Efforts to Eradicate Violence and Discrimination against Women and Girls: A Discussion on Approaches to Combat Sex Trafficking, legally Upholding the Rights of Adolescent Girls and Domesticate the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa' in Nairobi, Kenya from 10 to 11 September 2009.
Posted by on 05 Nov 2009 around 2pm | Permalink | Filed under: Violence against women
(SOAWR)-- SOAWR members, in a lobbying mission in Uganda, celebrate after the announcement of the upcoming ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Posted by on 14 Oct 2009 around 9am | Permalink | Filed under:
Read the FEMNET Report On Participation of the SOAWR Coalition in the Pre-Summit Activities of the 13th Ordinary Summit of the African Union Assembly.
In English
In French
Posted by on 10 Sep 2009 around 2pm | Permalink | Filed under:
SOAWR in collaboration with the AU Women, Gender and development Directorate and UNIFEM have concluded in Kigali, Rwanda a stakeholders' meeting on the implementation of the AU Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Posted by on 17 Aug 2009 around 2pm | Permalink | Filed under:
The Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) coalition through its members participated in the 11th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development held on 14-17 November 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Posted by on 26 Nov 2008 around 3pm | Permalink | Filed under:
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