issue: Rights relating to marriage
The Network Against Female Genital Mutilation (NAFGEM) is a non-governmental organization registered in Tanzania with 110 individual members. Since its inception in late 1998, NAFGEM has worked to eliminate of harmful traditional practices affecting girls and women, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), child marriage and other types of gender based violence.
Girl Child Network (GCN) is a Network of over 300 organizations working to improve the status of children in Zimbabwe with special emphasis on the education of the girl child. GCN came into being, primarily to mainstream children activities with a focus on the girl child in the development sector through advocacy, information sharing and strengthening of children programming in Zimbabwe .
Founded in 1992, Equality Now is an organization that advocates for the human rights of women and girls around the world by raising international visibility of individual cases of abuse, mobilizing public support through our global membership, and wielding strategic political pressure to ensure that governments enact or enforce laws and policies that uphold the rights of women and girls.
Fondée en 1992, Equality Now est une organisation qui défend les droits humains des femmes et des filles dans le monde entier en augmentant la visibilité internationale des cas individuels d’abus, en mobilisant le soutien du public par le biais de nos membres dans le monde entier, et en exerçant une pression politique stratégique pour s’assurer que les gouvernements adoptent ou appliquent des lois et des politiques qui défendent les droits des femmes et des filles.
Baobab for Women’s Human Rights (BAOBAB) is a feminist organization based on the principles of equality, empowerment, and respect for the dignity of women as human beings. It was established in 1996 as an intervention strategy to address the myriad of barriers to the actualisation of the rights of women in all its forms under the three parallel systems of law in Nigeria, namely: customary, religious and statutory laws, especially in Muslim-majority communities.
Welcome to All Things Maputo Protocol – a podcast by the SOAWR Coalition. Join us in the second episode of our first series for the month of March, as we explore
Welcome to All Things Maputo Protocol – a podcast by the SOAWR Coalition. Join us in our first series for the month of March, as we explore the International Women’s Day
1st December, 2023 The Republic of Botswana has ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (better known as
In commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), SOAWR Member Equality
