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Breathing Life into the African Union Protocol on women's Rights in Africa
Musa, Roselynn Mohammed, Faiza Jama Manji, Firoze
Musa, Roselynn
Mohammed, Faiza Jama
Manji, Firoze
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Solidarity for African Women’s Rights, a coalition of more than 20 organisations, set out to achieve the target of 15 country ratifications to the African Union Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. This target has now been surpassed with 17 ratifications as this book goes to press. For the first time in international law, this groundbreaking Protocol explicitly sets forth the reproductive right of women to medical abortion when pregnancy results from rape or incest or when the continuation of pregnancy endangers the health or life of the mother. The Protocol commits the states which sign it to eliminating all forms of discrimination against women and to ensuring, for example, their equal rights in marriage and to education and employment. The Protocol explicitly calls, amongst other things, for the legal prohibition of female genital mutilation. The idea of this book came from the African Union/Solidarity for African omen's Rights conference on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27–30 September 2005. This book documents the experiences and strategies that could be used to ensure universal ratification and implementation of the Protocol.
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2006
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9780954563776
9780954563776 (ebook)
9780954563776 (ebook)
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