issue: Maputo Protocol
Nigerian SOAWR Member, BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, has published a press statement for immediate release on the upcoming February 25 2023 general and presidential elections. Download the Press Release Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Nigerian General and Presidential Election Countdown:
SOAWR Member organisation, Sources of Peace Organisation (SPO) for Women and Youth Rights held a national symposium on the Maputo Protocol in Tripoli in November, 2022 with key delegates. Read a summary of the meeting and its action points in English and Arabic below. Read more | إقرأ المزيد Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp
WRAPA wishes to invite you to its virtual “National Convening on Promoting the Knowledge of the Maputo Protocol for the Protection of Women’s Rights in Nigeria”.
From the 22nd-24th of November 2022, SOAWR’s Steering Committee members met in Mombasa, Kenya, to take stock of the SOAWR Strategic Plan (2019-2024) and its implementation. Following dynamic reflections on how far the Coalition has come since its inception almost 20 years ago and how they would like to see it grow further, the members made individual commitments to support these endeavours. Bunmi, Anglophone West African Cluster Convenor I commit to partner with other members in the sub-region to advocate for the domestication, implementation and reporting on the Maputo Protocol. I commit to undertake initiatives for domestication and capacity strengthening
This statement by Alliances for Africa (Observer Status Number 235) on behalf of the SOAWR Coalition was prepared in Abuja, Nigeria, on 30th September 2025 and read at the 85th
RAPPORT PARALLELE COMBINÉ (10e au 18e , 2006- 2024) AU RAPPORT PÉRIODIQUE DE L’ÉTAT TUNISIEN SUR L’ÉTAT DE MISE EN ŒUVRE DU PROTOCOLE À LA CHARTE AFRICAINE DES DROITS DE
Following the SOAWR Coalition’s ratification and advocacy mission on the 25th of June 2025, the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) deposited the instrument of ratification for the Maputo Protocol on the 29th of July 2025, making CAR the 46th African Union member state to do so.
Today, on 11 July 2025, we mark 22 years since the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in
