In the five years since the adoption of the Protocol to the Africa Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, some 26 countries have ratified Africa's first regional human rights instrument. But with 27 countries yet to do so, the challenge remains to see each African nation commit to fully upholding women's rights.
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The Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), an NGO working on providing specialist assistance in research and advocacy in the field of human rights, democracy and governance, released a video and written report documenting political and human rights violations against women in Zimbabwe.
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A call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis. "The recent G-20 decision to replenish International Monetary Fund (IMF) resources is based on an overproduction and overconsumption model that ignores social reproduction, sustainability of the resources of the planet; and is based on a few acting to the exclusion of the many."
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An international coalition of over 300 women's organisations and human rights groups, representing more than 50 countries, is lending its support to a proposal aimed at creating a strong new women's body at the United Nations.
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