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5th Edition of the SOAWR Journal

Download the Journal It’s the 20th Anniversary of the SOAWR Coalition! In September 2004, several women’s rights organisations in Africa formally came together in solidarity to advocate for the adoption, ratification, domestication and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol). We are thrilled to share our journey in this 5th Edition of the SOAWR Journal in which we celebrate the Coalition’s growth, and forecast the future – A feminist imaging: SOAWR at 40. This fifth edition provides an overview of the implementation of the

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South Sudan Ratified the Maputo Protocol – Now What?

Status of women’s and girls’ rights in South Sudan Women and girls in South Sudan face extreme challenges with limited rights to protection, participation and inclusion. As such, South Sudan is among the countries with the highest rates of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the world. Opportunities for education and vocational training are scarce. Laws and patriarchal norms limit women’s ability to inherit land, start a business (women belong in the kitchen and at home), and lead in public affairs. And, most of the more than 4 million South Sudanese who are forcibly displaced are women and girl. In

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Read SOAWR's Statement to the 73rd Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (4 minute read). Photograph of a woman speaking into a megaphone.

SOAWR Statement to the 73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

In November 2022, on behalf of the SOAWR Coalition, member organisation Alliances for Africa (observer status number 235) submitted a statement to the 73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). The statement calls upon the Commission to: address challenges and barriers relating to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) continue to utilise its recently published guidelines on shadow reporting on the Maputo Protocol address the disproportionate effect that the COVID-19 pandemic, the proliferation of armed conflict and an unprecedented rise in unconstitutional changes of government are having on women urge the remaining 12 African

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Why the Maputo Protocol Benefits Everyone: #MaputoProtocolAt19

One of the world’s most comprehensive and progressive women’s human rights instruments, the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) was adopted by Heads of State and Government in Maputo, Mozambique, on 11 July 2003. To commemorate the 19th Anniversary of the Maputo Protocol, the SOAWR Coalition is celebrating 19 reasons why the Protocol benefits the diversity of African women and girls, their lived realities, communities and governments. Go to: 1. African Union Member States Whilst the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights provides a foundational framework for domesticating human rights

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5th Edition of the SOAWR Journal

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