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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 Africa, also known as the ‘Maputo Protocol’: a landmark moment in Africa’s legal and political history. But this year’s commemoration comes at a time when the rights enshrined in the Protocol are facing new and intensifying threats. From rising violence and regressive laws to coordinated attacks on bodily autonomy and women’s rights defenders, the gains hard-won by African women’s movements are under siege. But the SOAWR Coalition is not backing
Download English Press Release The Solidarity for African Women’s Rights is a coalition of over 70 civil society organizations working across 33 countries. SOAWR works to ensure that the rights of girls and women as articulated in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (“the Maputo Protocol”) are prioritized by policymakers on the African continent. On the heels of celebrating two decades of promoting and protecting the rights of women and girls in Africa, we are dismayed to learn of the alleged sexual harassment of the Bilingual Secretary of
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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
Read the full statement On the 10th of May 2025, SOAWR presented its statement to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) 83rd Ordinary Session, via member organisation
Exciting news! We’re pleased to announce that SOAWR has with UN Women handle under the #ACTtoEndViolence Against Women programme. ACT is a new game-changing commitment between the European Commission and
