The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol, is an international...

Maputo Protocol, though abortion is completely criminalized by the country's penal code. As an international treaty incorporated as law, the Maputo Protocol...

laws. Most countries in Africa are parties to the African Union's Maputo Protocol, the only international treaty that defines a right to abortion. Sub-Saharan...

In July 2003, at its second summit, the African Union adopted the Maputo Protocol promoting women's rights and calling for an end to FGM. The agreement...

not. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol, was adopted...

increased access to safe abortion. While Tanzania is a signatory to the Maputo Protocol, it has not adopted legislation that would allow abortion in cases...

pregnancy threatens life or health. The country's ratification of the Maputo Protocol commits it to the additional ground of fetal defects. Legal abortions...

organizations have worked to raise awareness of abortion. After ratifying the Maputo Protocol in 2005, Togo passed a law legalizing abortion in December 2006. It...

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unprotected in times of calamities. The Maputo Protocol fixes the values for women's human rights in Africa. The protocol has one of the highest number of ratification...

abortions was 0 in 2021 and 3 in 2022. Mauritius is a signatory of the Maputo Protocol, but is not bound to Article 14(2), which describes a right to abortion...

the International Conference on Population and Development and the Maputo Protocol. In 2005, the National Assembly declared that women have a right to...

banning or restricting FGM. In 2003 the African Union ratified the Maputo Protocol on the rights of women, which supported the elimination of FGM. By...

with no legal grounds. Following the Gambia's ratification of the Maputo Protocol and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...

of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women It also has signed the Maputo Protocol, an international treaty on women's rights, and the African Union Women's...

grounds of rape, incest, or risk to life. The country ratified the Maputo Protocol in 2004 and published abortion guidelines in 2012. The 2024 penal code...

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Nigeria; the 2003 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or "Maputo Protocol" (Article 15); the...

access reliable medical procedures. The DRC is a signatory to the Maputo Protocol which directs states to legalize abortion in cases where a woman's...

Conference on Population and Development; it is also a party to the Maputo Protocol, which includes a right to abortion. The country has a taboo surrounding...

active in the country. The country ratified treaties including the 2005 Maputo Protocol. Pro-abortion activists argued that the abortion ban caused unsafe...

articulated in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa ("The Maputo Protocol"). SOAWR has played...

Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women and by the 2003 Maputo Protocol. In addition, the term gender-based violence refers to "any acts or...

Sudan. She campaigned for over 10 years for South Sudan to accept the Maputo Protocol, via Steward women, which was a success, in June 2023,when South Sudan...

governments supported abortion, and the country signed and ratified the Maputo Protocol in the 2010s. Medical abortion is the most common method in public...

implementation of girls and women's rights, particularly the Maputo Protocol and Maputo Plan of Action, in Africa. At the heart of SoAWC project is the...

responsibilities with respect to the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol. The role was created by the ACHPR through...

Religious groups have supported the ban. Sierra Leone ratified the Maputo Protocol in 2015. A bill allowing abortion, first raised in 2010, was approved...

American States 1994); the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) (African Union 2003)...

thousands in a march in Douala to protest Cameroon's endorsement of the Maputo Protocol, a women's rights charter promoted by the African Union. Critics of...