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The Protocol to the African charter on human and peoples (1) rights on the rights of Women in Africa: from ratification to the realization of African Women's Human Rights, 27-30 September 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

With 15 ratifications to the African Women's Protocol already secured, members of the Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) coalition are gearing up for the next phase of the campaign - Domestication. In this regard, on behalf of the SOAWR coalition, FEMNET held a conference in Addis Ababa, in collaboration with the Gender, Women and Development Directorate of the African Union Commission at the end of September 2005. Participants included SOAWR members and other civil society organizations, government officials--from countries that have ratified the Protocol and staff of the AU Commission. The conference addressed the following:

* Analysis of domestication and implementation processes in African countries around the Protocol.

* Analysis of the policy (constitutional, legal, planning) and institutional changes (enforcement mechanisms, related resources) that African countries will require to actualize the rights set out in the Protocol.

* Analysis from a gender perspective of AU/NEPAD strategies and plans against the Protocol's provisions.

* Experiential case studies that create demand for African women's human rights as set out in the Protocol and viewed against existing national constitutional and legal provisions and policies.

le protocole a la charte Africaine des droits humains et des peuples relatif aux droits des femmes en Afrique: de la ratification a la concretisation des droits humains des Femmes Africaines, 27-30 septembre 2005, Addis-Abeba, Ethiopie.

Avec 15 ratifications du Protocole des Femmes Africaines deja...