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| A Guide to Using the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa for Legal Action | |
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Equality Now |
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Equality Now on behalf of the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition |
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n.p. |
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2011 |
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English, French |
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guide, reference guide, judges, lawyers, NGO staff, female genital mutilation/female genital cutting, gender equality, reproductive health, sexual violence, violence against women, women's human rights, African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Convention on the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Optional Protocol to CEDAW, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, African Union (formerly Organisation of African Unity, OAU), Committee on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Africa |
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This manual promotes the use of the groundbreaking human rights instrument, the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, which is a supplementary protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa is renowned for its strong and comprehensive provisions on women’s rights. For the first time in international law, it 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. In another first, the Protocol explicitly calls for the legal prohibition of female genital mutilation (FGM). It also specifies 18 years as the minimum age for marriage and promotes equal representation of women in the judiciary and law enforcement as well as at all levels of decision-making. |
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http://www.soawr.org/resources/Manual_on_Protocol_
on_Women_Rights_in_Africa.pdf  English
http://www.equalitynow.org/sites/default/files/Pro
tocol_Manual_FR.pdf French
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