[women-rights] Mozambique ratified the protocol on women's rights in Africa

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Lomé, Togo, 18 January 2005. Mozambique has deposited its instrument of
ratification of the protocol on the African charter on human and peoples’
rights on the rights of women in Africa
{http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=806&category_id=31&category_type=3&group=Human%20rights%20treaties%20and%20other%20instruments
} with the African Union on 30th December 2005. Mozambique is the 17th
state that ratified the protocol.

Burkina Faso and Guinea in West Africa will very shortly deposit their
ratification instrument as their parliament have respectively authorised
it. Outside West Africa.

In Niger, during the Minister council held yesterday 18th January the
president of the republic authorised the ratification of the protocol. The
law bill will now go to parliament who will authorise the ratification
that will allow the deposit of the instrument with the African commission.

We encourage our colleagues to work twice as hard so that the 3
instruments should be deposited as soon as possible and also that in 2006
the remaining countries ratified the protocol without any prejudicial
reserve for the effective use of the human rights. Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana,
Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone in West Africa must still make
progress in this way.

Best regards,

Women in Law and Development in Africa/ Femmes, Droit et
Développement en Afrique (WiLDAF/FeDDAF) bureau sous-régional
d’Afrique de l’Ouest
info@wildaf-ao.org  / wildaf@cafe.tg



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