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BLAZING A TRAIL: THE AFRICAN PROTOCOL ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS COMES INTO FORCE
Abstract
The entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003 on 25 November, 2005, marked the culmination of years of lobbying for a document which would promote and protect the human rights of the continent's women by African women's rights advocates. This commentary provides a brief historical overview of the process leading up to the adoption of the Protocol by the African Union in Maputo in July 2003 before moving on to consider its substantive provisions.
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“A key achievement on the African continent as far as women's rights and welfare are concenrned has been the Maputo Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa, which has provided African courts with context-specific application of women's rights on the African continent, over and above those of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women”
From The Coloniality and Evolution of African Customary Law (2025) · cites this paper as Banda 2006
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- Authors
- BANDA, F.
- Affiliations
- SOAS University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- BANDA, FAREDA
- Venue
- Journal of African Law
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 72-84
- ISSN
- 0021-8553 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3731
- OpenAlex
- W2166790225
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 2.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of African Law (publishedVersion)
- Center for International and Regional Studies (Georgetown University) (submittedVersion)
- SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Human Rights and Reproductive Law
- Social Sciences › Law › Legal Rights and Human Rights
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Law and Human Rights
- Keywords
- women's rights, African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, African Union, Maputo Protocol, entry into force, women's rights advocacy
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