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    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...
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    Maputo (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈputu]) is the capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Child (1990) Maputo Protocol (11 July 2003) African Youth Charter (June 30,2006) African Disability Protocol (June 30,2019) SADC Gender Protocol (revised...
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    the Mau Mau rebellion as a fighter for Kenyan independence. The 2003 Maputo Protocol of the African Union addressed gender-based violence against women...
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    Human and Peoples' Rights African Union International human rights law Maputo Protocol List of Linguistic Rights in Constitutions (Africa) Linguistic rights...
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    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...
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    since 1990. Additionally, the African Union in July 2003 ratified the Maputo Protocol, which pledges to prohibit female genital mutilation (FGM). Somalia...
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    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...
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    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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  • Rights (art. 24(3)) Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) (art. 6(g) and (h))...
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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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • fields, such as Africana womanism and womanist theology. The 2003 Maputo Protocol on women's rights in Africa set the continental standard for progressive...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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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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  • conventions, protocols, declarations, resolutions and recommendations such as CEDAW Committee General Recommendation No. 14 (1990),: 11  Maputo Protocol Article...
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  • protection of women and girls during and after armed conflicts. The Maputo Protocol guarantees comprehensive rights to women, including the right to take...
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  • Bulgaria case. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) was adopted by the...
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    consented to international charters such as CEDAW as well as Africa's Maputo Protocol. Ordonnance n°2005-015 on child protection restricts FGM. Leblouh is...
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    srhr.org/documents/countries/15-Cabo-Verde-Resolution-ratifying-Maputo-Protocol-2005.pdf resolution no. 131/vi/2005 https://www.parlamento...
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