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...

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...

Maputo (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈputu]) is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within...

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...

rights. It was influenced by CEDAW and the Maputo Protocol. It does not meet the terms of the Maputo Protocol that provide for abortion in the cases of...

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...

the woman's life was to induce abortion. In 2003, Benin ratified the Maputo Protocol, which provides for access to safe abortion. On 3 March 2003, law number...

Force formed with the goal of aligning Senegal's abortion law with the Maputo Protocol, which it had signed in 2004. The National Assembly considered a bill...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Child (1990) Maputo Protocol (11 July 2003) African Youth Charter (June 30,2006) African Disability Protocol (June 30,2019) SADC Gender Protocol (revised...

Leone. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the Maputo Protocol, states in...

The African Union has adopted the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol). While the protocol does not suggest making polygamous...

this law until amending it in December 2017. Madagascar signed the Maputo Protocol in 2003, but did not ratify it. The treaty guarantees a right to abortion...

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...

since 1990. Additionally, the African Union in July 2003 ratified the Maputo Protocol, which pledges to prohibit female genital mutilation (FGM). Somalia...

Banjul Charter) and, alongside African lawyers, the development of the Maputo Protocol, which was adopted in 2003. Diop participates in reconciliation processes...

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...

Sierra Leone became a party to the Maputo Protocol, which includes provisions about abortion. It ratified the protocol on 18 January 2016. Members of parliament...

protection of women and girls during and after armed conflicts. The Maputo Protocol guarantees comprehensive rights to women, including the right to take...

reproductive health later in life. The Maputo Protocol, which was adopted by the African Union in the form of a protocol to the African Charter on Human and...

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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...

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needed] Sudan signed the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) on 30 June 2008, but...

victim".: 7–8  The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) was adopted by the...

perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence with the woman". The Maputo Protocol of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights adopted a broader...