Publications

SOAWR Coalition Annual Review and Agenda Setting Workshop Report

Spreading our wings: a multi-sectoral approach to Women’s rights

E. Njoki Wamai

The SOAWR Coalition annual review meeting in Nairobi, Kenya from 5th-7th October was attended by over 40 participants from 15 countries. This year’s theme was, “Spreading Our Wings: A Multi-Sectoral Approach to Women’s Rights’’. The main objectives of the meeting included a progress review of the 2008/2009 year, sharing of the best practices in the year, strategising on the African Women’s Decade from 2010-2020 and setting the framework for the next strategic plan.

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Grace, Tenacity and Eloquence

The struggle for women’s rights in Africa

Edited by Patrick Burnett, Shereen Karmali and Firoze Manji

The articles first appeared in the prize-winning weekly electronic newsletter, Pambazuka News. They provide students, activists and others with an easy-to-read introduction to the struggle for women’s rights in Africa.

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Breathing Life into the African Union Protocol on Women’s Rights in Africa

Edited by Roselynn Musa, Faiza Jama Mohammed and Firoze Manji

The groundbreaking Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on Women’s Rights came into force in 2005. The protocol commits the states that sign it to eliminating all forms of discrimination against women.

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Women, water and sanitation

Articles from Special Issue: Pambazuka News 379, June 2008

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Second anniversary of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: Challenges ahead

Articles from Special Issue: Pambazuka News 329, November 2007

What gains and what challenges do we have two years after the entry into force of the Protocol? This is the overall question that the various articles presented in this special issue of Pambazuka aim at addressing. What clearly emerges is that the challenges outweigh the gains made so far.

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The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Women’s Rights in Africa: From ratification to the realisation of African women’s human rights

Articles from Special Issue: Pambazuka News 222, September 2005

Ahead of a conference co-convened by the African Union (AU) and SOAWR and held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between 27 and 30 September, this edition consists of editorials written by SOAWR members and updates about the progress of the campaign from across the African continent.

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Ratification Now!

June 2005

After the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa in July 2003, women’s and human rights organizations were concerned that the ratification and domestication of the Protocol might take the same time as its drafting.

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The African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa

Not yet a force for freedom

The pan-African campaign to mobilise support for the ratification of the protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples. Rights on the rights of women in Africa was initiated by the women.s rights organisations Equality Now and FEMNET, together with Credo for Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights, Oxfam GB and Fahamu, publishers of Pambazuka News.
By August 2004, over one thousand of citizens, civil society groups, community-based organisations, women's rights activists and national coalition groups had joined the campaign and were actively mobilising support for early ratification.

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