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- "Keeping the Promise”: gender equality, maternal and child health
- "Using law for rural women’s empowerment in West Africa”: WiLDAF evaluates its work in mid-term Project
- 2009 activism campaign to end violence against women: ACT NOW!
- 2009 World Survey on Women’s Control over Economic Resources and Access to Financial Resources: gender equality contribute to economic development
- 45th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- 46th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- 6th February: International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation
- A “Dossier of Claims” to support the cause of women
- A woman in honor: Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics
- African Union to create an African women’s fund
- AT LAST A SINGLE GENDER ENTITY "UN-WOMEN"!
- Ban attends the first meeting of the MDG Advocacy Group in Madrid
- Burkina Faso to submit its shadow report to the CEDAW Committee
- Capacity building of WILDAF-TOGO members
- Climate Change: Adaptation funds must reach Africa’s women farmers
- Combating violence against women: from legislation to its effective enforcement
- Echoes of the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women: Women’s Forum
- Eighth Africa Regional Conference on Women
- France May Make Mental Violence a Crime
- French companies forced to reserve 40% of boardroom posts for women
- GEAR Campaign Meeting With UN Deputy Secretary-General
- GEAR-UP for a more ambitious women’s agency
- Girl’s week, 2010 edition: « Girls and boys, together for the promotion of women’s rights and the culture of excellence »
- Global Conference on maternal health and childbirth
- Green revolution in Africa: 2-day dialogue for a better partnership of stakeholders
- Guinea: Solidarity Mission in support of the women, victims of the 28th September 2009 crisis
- Health and development in the heart of discussions at the 43rd session of the Commission on Population and Development
- HOW DOES CORRUPTION IMPACT WOMEN?
- Human Rights Day 2009
- International Women’s Day 2010: 100-year century
- Investing in agriculture and women’s empowerment is a key factor to African Recovery
- Launching of community committees to combat violence against women in Togo
- MASSACRES IN GUINEA: THREE AFRICANS AMONG WHOM 2 WOMEN IN THE INVESTIGATION COMMISSION
- MDGs pre-summit with Non-governmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector
- Millennium Development Goals Report 2010: the news is not quite good
- More powerful UN gender equality entity finally on the way?
- Mrs Margaret Nasha, the first woman to hold the position of Speaker of the National Assembly in Botswana
- National Women’s Forum in Togo
- New FAO database eyes gender gap in land rights
- News on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- October 15, 2009: World Rural Women’s Day
- Participation of WILDAF-WA in the 15th African Women’s AU Pre-summit consultation on gender mainstreaming in the African Union
- PRESIDENT GUEBUZA WINNER OF THE AFRICAN GENDER AWARD 2009
- PSC urges appointment of envoy on violence against women and children
- Rural women key to economic growth
- Rural women’s empowerment: the paralegal farmers are more determined thane ever to bring their contribution
- Security Council to Act on Indicators for Tracking Implementation of Landmark Text Addressing Women, Peace and Security
- Strategic Planning Meeting of WILDAF West Africa
- Subregional exchange meeting on the project “Using law for rural women’s empowerment”
- The African Women’s day: beyond festivities, here is the opportunity for our advocacies.
- The fifteenth-year review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform of Action
- The International Criminal Court condemns the recent events in Guinea
- The knowledge and use of law, an efficient way of empowering women
- The new Family Code in Mali: WILDAF takes up actions to accelerate its adoption
- The PROTOCOL on the rights of women in Africa in force since 2005!
- The second issue of the African Women Rights Observatory newsletter, now available
- Time for commitment is over, Time for Action now!
- Togo Gets First Woman Presidential candidate
- Togo: free caesarean section to be effective by 2011
- Towards a Human Rights Strategy and Governance Architecture for Africa
- TOWARDS GENDER RESPONSIVE AND EQUITABLE CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCING
- UEMOA will launch a Regional Fund for Agricultural Development in 2010
- Uganda ratified the Maputo protocol on women’s rights
- UNFPA State of World Population 2009: Facing a changing world: women, population and climate
- Using IT to promote women’s rights in Togo
- Vote of the law on absolute parity in Senegal: a strong invitation to other African countries at the beginning of the African Women’s Decade
- WILDAF at the 54th session of CSW
- WILDAF consolidates the actions of rural women paralegals
- WILDAF West Africa Activity Report 2009
- WILDAF-WEST AFRICA at the 8th Africa Regional Conference on women (Beijing + 15): Make West African women’s voice heard
- WiLDAF-West Africa on the field
- WORLD SUMMIT ON FOOD SECURITY : Eradicate the silent hunger crisis
- « Africa-Unite » to end violence against women: the regional campaign is launched
- «United to end violence against women»: Africa joins the campaign
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- Impact of international trade policies on rural women producers in west and central Africa,
- Mainstream gender economics policies in Africa
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Africa news
- BURKINA -FASO: women for the access to power
- Cameroon: Finally, a Law against Female Genital Mutilation
- News on the protocol in Niger
- Niger: By Decree, the government of Niger makes the access of women to antenatal care, deliveries as well as caesarean operations free of charge.
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2003
- April
- May
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November
- Dakar Strategy on Mainstreaming «Gender» and Women’s Effective Participation in the African Union and NEPAD
- Déclaration de Durban sur l’intégration de la perspective "Genre" et la participation active de la femme dans l’Union Africaine (en françis)
- Maputo Declaration on Gender Mainstreaming and the Effective Participation of Women in the African Union
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2004
- African shadow report for Beijing+10
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African Union
- A Steering committee between AU and women’s organisations
- Call for nomination for the African Union Women’s Committee
- Gender equality: a real will of the African Union or dust in the eye?
- Mali will soon deposit its instrument of ratification of the Protocol
- Namibian Parliament tables motion on women’s rights
- Representation of women in the delegations to the Pan-African Parliament in 2004
- SALAMATA SAWADOGO: a woman as Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights for the first time
- Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa
- The entry into force of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: A Challenge for Africa and women
- The first judges for the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights will be nominated at the next Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU
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April
- A new Togolese organisation for the defense of women’s rights in Togo is born: Consultative Council for Women in Togo
- An Imam of Koloma in Guinea in collision with CPTAFE
- Burkina Faso: Government tackles tradition of girl-brides
- Elections reflecting parity in Rwanda
- Female genital mutilation, a daily fight to eradiquate this practice in Guinea for the rights of women and girls
- Ghana: Shun cultural practices that promote HIV/AIDS, says Health Director
- Ghana:"I Know My Goal" Campaign
- International: Send a ‘birthday card’ to the World Bank
- Liberia: monitors document sexual violations
- Rwanda: 4.8 per cent of young girls in Rwanda have HIV
- South Africa: Strip the back page
- Uganda: Ugandan Divorce Law Made Fairer for women
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January
- A new Togolese organisation for the defense of women’s rights in Togo
- Africa: Prostitutes of Africa, victims of silence
- Africa:Anti-Abortion Policies Take Heavy Toll in Africa
- Democratic Republic of Congo: Gender Violence Based
- Kenya: The Binti Pamoja Center
- Senegal: Senegal Program Eradicating FGM
- Sudan: The government has undertaken to prohibit the practice of female genital mutilations
- Zambia: Kwacha Kum’mawa - Chipata
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July
- Africa: Meeting on budgetary transparency in Africa
- Discriminatory articles for women in the Family Law of Benin are now in conformity with the Constitution
- Ghana will be the first country to be reviewed by its peers under the NEPAD
- Ghana: Osu Young Women’s Radio Project
- Kenya: Campaign against FGM
- Liberia: Liberian Women Demand Full Participation in Country’s Reconstruction
- Liberia: UNMIL’s Crackdown on Trafficking Puts Women at Risk
- Sierra Leone: A series of indictments under the Special Court for Sierra Leone were handed out this week on charges of crimes against humanity and serious violations of international humanitarian law
- Southern Africa: Women take on the old boys club
- Three women appointed village paramount chief in Togo
- Togo: Children suffer multiple forms of abuse
- Trafficking in Human Beings, especially Women and Children in Africa
- West Africa: I am a Child but I have my Rights too!
- Zimbabwe Launches National Gender Policy
- November
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October
- Côte d’Ivoire: 2005 elections: Women leaders want to have their candidates for the 2005 presidential election
- Domestic Violence - The Sad Truth
- From Beijing to Addis Ababa: what has progressed for African women?
- Gambia: Rights of Women in Africa workshop
- Ghana: Media urged to expose corruption in society
- Mauritania: Little progress in fighting slavery, FGM in Mauritania
- Niger: Battle Against Fistula Moves Ahead
- Nigeria: Nigerian Women need better post abortion care services
- Nigeria: Open letter to Mr. President on African Women’s Day
- Recommendations of West Africa sub region on the evaluation of the Beijing Platform 10 years after its adoption
- Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone war crimes court lacking funds
- The Family Law in Benin has been promulgated
- The Women’s Manifesto of Ghana
- West African meeting on Beijing Platform for Action
- When will the initial appointments of judges to the African Court Human and Peoples’ Rights take place?
- WACSOF
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2005
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African Union Watch
- ... and what about the civil society?
- 37th session of the African Commission on the Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
- 5th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Libya: Decisions and declarations
- About the two African Courts
- African Civil Society and African Union: Time for self organisation? Can African civil society meet in 2005?
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
- African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights to be Established without Delay
- African Union Award for human rights
- Fifth Assembly of Heads of States and Government in Syrte and human rights champion award
- First meeting of Ministers in charge of Women and Gender in Dakar for the implementation of the African Union Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality (SDGEA)
- Follow up of the Protocol on the Court of Justice of the African Union
- Follow up of the Protocol related to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Follow-up on the Protocol relating to the establishment of the Peace and Security Council
- Follow-up on the Protocol to the treaty establishing the African Economic Community relating to the Pan-African Parliament
- Fourth Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union
- Gender equality and social policy framework
- Ghana ratified the protocol to the ACHPR on women’s rights
- Merging of the two Courts of the African Union?
- Next AU Summit in July 2005
- Notice of the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament
- Schedule of meetings of the AU October to December 2005
- the 38th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- The implementation of the solemn declaration on gender equality in Africa
- The launch of ECOSOCC was done but will it be to what NGOs would like it to be? Not so sure!
- The Pan African Parliament held its third session in Mildrand, South Africa
- Tripoli Declaration
- Vacancy at AU
- Women and health: a concern of the AU?
- Women’s rights organisations and networks meet in Tripoli for the African Assembly of Heads of State and Government
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April
- Africa Women Leaders Think-Tank Meeting in West Africa
- Africa: African civil society organisations issue ultimatum on debt to the G8
- Ghana: Vitamin A Deficiency, A Cause of High Child Mortality
- Guinea: Government Study Shows HIV Infections Rising
- Southern Africa: Call for 30% women’s representation in public office by 2005
- Swaziland: ‘A custom Tied to a Lifestyle That No Longer Exists’
- Uganda: Ugandan Muslins March in Defence of Polygamy
- Zimbabwe: Abortion figures underscore need for more reproductive health education
- CEDAW
- CSW 2005
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ECOWAS Watch
- ECOWAS official slams women’s exclusion from Head of State
- European Fund for Development: joint report 2004 ECOWAS-European Community
- Forum of political parties, media
- Individuals to be Given Direct Access to the ECOWAS Court of Justice
- Message of West African Women to the Heads of State in ECOWAS sub region
- Plan of action for the implementation of the agricultural policy
- Role of Parliaments in security sector
- Role of parliaments in the West African Security Sector and in the observance of the rule of law
- Update of ECOWAS website
- February
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January
- Benin under Exam by the Human Rights Committee
- Benin: 2005 the Year of ‘No more Excision’
- Daso ADAMU discharged!
- Gabon: Mostly illegal but in demand
- Ghana: In Ghana Politics, Women are very Lean
- Liberia: Campaign for the education of girls heats
- Liberia: Women decry criminal activities
- Niger: Declaration of Niamey
- Nigeria: Rape on the Increase
- Strengthening civil society and human rights organisations in Togo
- The Women International Network (WIN) of AMARC
- U.S. Sanctions Key Allies over ICC Participation: Benin, Mali and Niger
- Vulnerability of African women to AIDS
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July
- Africa: AWOMI Spearheads African Women’s Involvement in the G-CAP
- Africa: Memorandum of Civil Society to the 3rd Ordinary Session of the African Union Ministers of Trade, Cairo, Egypt
- Africa: Women’s organisations from different parts of Africa gathered in Johannesburg to add their voices to the Global Call Against Poverty
- Congo-Kinshasa: Principle of parity between men and women in the Constitution
- Gambia: Islam Council head on female circumcision
- Maître Reine Alapini Gansou of WiLDAF/FeDDAF-Benin appointed as a member of the ACHPR
- Measuring progress in West Africa through 12 indicators of the MDGs related to women
- Monitoring of official reports submission for CEDAW by West African States Parties
- Multilateral agreement being negotiated
- Niger: Niger stopped the road of the caravan
- Nigeria: Country gets first female supreme court justice
- Recruitment at the African Union
- Reports to be submitted to the UN Treaty Bodies during 2006-2007 by West African countries
- Sierra Leone: In series of controversial rulings, international tribunal refuses to hear evidence relating to sexual violence
- Status of official West African countries’ reports to the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
- Status of signatures and ratifications by West African countries of international treaties related to trafficking
- The 20 countries where there is the more risk to have children: Mother’s Index 2005
- Togo ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s rights on Women rights yesterday 01st September 2005
- Trafficking in persons in West Africa
- Tribute on the occasion of the death of lawyer Grace d’ALMEIDA
- West Africa: Benin, Nigeria Forge Alliance Against Child Trafficking
- May
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NEPAD
- Consultation of the civil society for the G8 in July 2005
- Monitoring the NEPAD’s APRM
- NEPAD and G8
- NEPAD Gender Task Force
- NEPAD Gender Task Force: concept paper and terms of reference
- NEPAD is not an end in itself: an interview with Zo Randriamaro
- Press release following the 13th meeting of the African peer review mechanism panel of eminent persons
- Pretoria Declaration from the NEPAD Gender Task Force
- Progress in gender mainstreaming to NEPAD?
- The APRM self-assessment of Ghana: some information on NGO involvement in the process
- November
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October
- "Equity is complementary to the pursuit of long-term prosperity"
- Africa can move faster on MDGs, says report
- Africa: School fees ’barrier for girls’
- Debt cancellation to African countries and its impact on women in those selected countries: An interview with Zo Randriamaro
- GHANA: Teenage Pregnancies on the Increase
- Liberia: Girls sell sex to stay in school
- Mauritania: Mauritania union doubles number of female members
- Millennium Development Goals: What the Women Committee of GCAP think of UN world summit agreements
- Niger: Women banned from grain stores
- Nigeria: National Birth Registration Scheme Launched
- Nigeria: Violence against women must stop
- The Dakar Commitment
- Togo: Men Reluctant to Allow Pregnant Wives to Undergo VCT
- UN report warns against focusing on FDI as development policy
- September
- WACSOF
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African Union Watch
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2006
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African Union Watch
- 38th session of the ACHPR: a session to be written in gold in the history of the fight for human rights in Africa
- 6th ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government
- Conference on women and the right 3 - 5 July, 2006, Hotel Savanna, Dakar, Senegal
- First Session of the African Court for Human and Peoples Rights - 3 July 2006, Banjul, Gambia
- Implementation of the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equity in Africa (SDGEA)
- Inaugural Meeting of the African Union Women’s Committee (AUWC)
- News on the protocol (ACHPR) in Niger
- News on the protocol (ACHPR) in Niger
- Pre-summit women’s forum
- Project of a Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance
- Resolution adopted by african women’s forums in Banjul June 2006
- Schedule of meetings of the AU from March to June 2006
- Senegal state Report
- Shadow report of the West African civil society organizations on the implementation of the solemn declaration on gender equality in Africa
- The 7th ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Banjul (The Gambia), from 1 to 2 July, 2006
- Two Women Judges elected to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Sudan
- Where is gender parity in the nominations of the Judges at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights?
- April
- CEDAW
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CSW 2006
- Declaration of African Women In Commemoration of the International Women’s Day 2006
- Promoting Gender Equality in New Aid Modalities and Partnerships. Following is some extracts.
- The celebration 8th March availed African representatives present at the session the opportunity to make an important declaration
- WiLDAF appeals to African Heads of States
- WILDAF AT THE 5OTH SESSION OF THE CSW
- WiLDAF oral statement: WiLDAF appeals to African Heads of States
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ECOWAS
- Conversion of ECOWAS Secretariat into a Commission
- ECOWAS council of ministers puts final touches to restructuring
- ECOWAS council of ministers puts final touches to restructuring of ECOWAS institutions
- ECOWAS involves itself in the promotion and protection of African women’s rights
- Experts’ meeting to review draft code of conduct for armed forces and security services of ECOWAS opens in Lome
- Gender parity: At least 30% of the membership of the delegation of the renewed Parliament should be women
- Ivory Coast: Round table on the rights of women and children
- Regional workshop on violence against women opens in Abuja
- Regional workshop on violence against women opens in Abuja
- West, central African experts endorse tools for regional multilateral cooperation against trafficking in persons
- Workshop Seeks Enhancement of ECOWAS, Civil Society Partnership
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January
- Akua KUENYEHIA (Ghana) reelected for a second mandate as Judge at the International Criminal Court
- «Why not a woman?»: A programme of the Coalition des Femmes Leaders de la Côte d’Ivoire (CFELCI): BODOUA Affoua Hélène talks more about it
- Implementation of the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equity in Africa (SDGEA)
- Interview of Abdourhama Amina, Director of the Promotion of Woman in Niger and gender focal point in Niger
- Kenya: Small Loans for Men Will Keep Violence Against Women Down
- Mali: Women at the World Social Forum in Bamako: Solidarity, training and communication
- Mali: WSF opens with a call for justice
- Nigeria: Forced evictions in Lagos make thousands homeless
- Togo: CEDAW: Encouraging Togo’s new Government to persevere in its determination to promote gender equality
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July
- 2 - 5 July 2006- 1st meeting of the African court on human and people’s rights Banjul Gambia
- 31 July 2006, Celebration of African Women’s Day: Peace, Security and Economic Stability in Africa
- Female sexual mutilation; intolerable figures
- Liberia: Impunity for rape still prevails in Liberia
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons , especially in women and children
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NEPAD
- African Union invited to consider Freedom of speech in Africa as a NEPAD criterion.
- Dr. Dorothy Njeuma Named President of MAEP
- FOLLOW-UP on NEPAD: Olusegun Obasanjo thinks that NEPAD is in real progress
- Ghana Undergoes Landmark Peer Review
- Me ABDOULAYE WADE « the NEPAD is making no headway »
- The APRM Monitor
- October
- WACSOF
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African Union Watch
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2007
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African Union
- African Union news
- Consult the Draft Calendar Of Meetings of African Union
- Cote d’Ivoire: A law authorizing the ratification of the protocol to the ACHPR
- Eighth Ordinary Session of the AU Conference
- Election of the new members of the African Union Commission on Human and People’s Rights
- First international scientific Congress on the right of African women to Information Communication Technology
- LAUNCHING OF “FRIDAYS OF THE COMMISSION”
- Setting up of a High Level Panel in charge of the Auditing of the African Union
- Shadow report of the West African civil society organizations on the implementation of the solemn declaration on gender equality in Africa
- The 9th consultative woman’s meeting in Addis Ababa on January 25th and 26th, 2007. African women assess the commitments taken by the Heads of States.
- The civil society at the 9th ordinary session of the African Union Conference: women were not outdone
- The Ghanian Parliament authorized the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the rights of women in Africa
- The second in command of the United Nations encourages the IEC of Congo-Kinshasa to make women’s participation a priority
- The WiLDAF network participated in the NGO forum preceding the 41st session of the ACHPR
- CEDAW
- CSW
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ECOWAS
- 4th Annual FOSCAO forum: recommendations for the success of West African integration
- ECOWAS increasingly involved in the supervision of elections in its member countries
- Some tips for women candidates to the various elections in Africa
- The launching of the CEDAW Commission for the acceleration of integration and development
- WACSOF has a new Executive Committee presided over by Mrs. Genevieve Boko Nadjo
- Laws
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NEPAD
- “A chance for newborns in Africa »
- Cameroon implements the NEPAD e-School project
- Ghana proceeded to the MAEP
- Rwanda highlights the ’’added value’’ of the APRM on its democratisation process
- South Africa welcomes its first on-line school
- Summit of heads of State and African governments on NEPAD in Algeria
- The Accra conference recommends the harmonization of development policies
- The Pan-African Parliament wishes to be an associate to the election supervision in Africa
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News
- 20 years for the Human Rights and Development in the World
- Amnesty International report on sexual violence inflicted upon Ivorian women
- Blue Helmets in Liberia
- Burkina Faso: Young girls show interest in science subjects
- Celebration of the bicentennial of the abolition of slavery
- Coming out of new publications in the set" WiLDAF Publication"
- December 1st, 2006: Celebration of the National AIDS Day
- Follow-up indicators on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination towards Women (CEDEF) and on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Human Rights Watch report on sexual violence cases in CÃ’te d’Ivoire
- Human Rights Watch report on sexual violence cases in Côte d’Ivoire
- Institute on Democratic Governance
- Key actions adopted during the workshop for after the ratification of the protocol
- November 25- International Day for the elimination of violence against women.
- Participation of the WiLDAF network in the NGO forum preceding the 41st session of the ACHPR
- Report on « Youth in action, state of the world population 2006 »
- Reports from the States on the Solemn Declaration on gender equality in Africa.
- Results from the first phase of the Education Programme in Mali
- Soon to come a law against bigamy in Nigeria
- The Charter of Kurukan Fuga”, an example of a traditional African instrument for social organisation and the protection of human rights
- The child mortality rate is under 10 million for the first time
- The only UN Agency for women
- The women of Rwanda are determined to go to University
- Togo: Adoption of a legislation as regards to discrimination and sexual harassment in the work place in Togo.
- Togo: The National Assembly adopts a law on reproductive health
- Women’s participation in governance: Good practices from Mauritania
- Women’s Rights in Senegal- ‘A significant Improvement’ on paper, a weakness in the application
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African Union
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2008
- Africa News
- Paris Declaration
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Protocol
- One more new ratification: Guinea-Bissau has ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on the Rights of Women in Africa
- One more signature
- Signatories to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- We count one more ratification!
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2009
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Africa News
- African Union Resolution on the deteriorating Human Hights situation in the
- After the adoption of the Family Code in Mali, going forward!
- Bloody repression of protesters in Guinea: Women once again, victims of serial rape
- Bloody repression of protesters in Guinea: Women once again, victims of serial rape
- Burundi working towards the realisation of the MDGs: additional quotas for women in recent voted electoral law
- Burundi working towards the realisation of the MDGs: additional quotas for women in recent voted electoral law
- Celebrating Africa Human Rights Day on 21st October 2009
- Celebrating Africa Human Rights Day on 21st October 2009
- Celebration of the International Women’s Day in Liberia, “International Colloquium on women’s empowerment, leadership development, international peace and security”
- CEO Leadership forum: How to develop strategies to address management challenges facing women’s organizations?
- CEO Leadership forum: How to develop strategies to address management challenges facing women’s organizations?
- Climate Change: Adaptation funds must reach Africa’s women farmers
- Gambia: Jammeh issues death threats to human rights defenders
- Gambia: Jammeh issues death threats to human rights defenders
- Ghana: Women demand more positions in government
- Ghana: Women demand more positions in government
- GRACE USHANG’S DEATH AND THE INDECENT DRESSING BILL
- GRACE USHANG’S DEATH AND THE INDECENT DRESSING BILL
- ICC Prosecutor confirms situation in Guinea under examination
- MASSACRES IN GUINEA: THREE AFRICANS AMONG WHOM 2 WOMEN IN THE INVESTIGATION COMMISSION
- Mrs Margaret Nasha, the first woman to hold the position of Speaker of the National Assembly in Botswana
- National Women’s Forum in Togo
- October 15, 2009: World Day of Rural Women
- Rural women working towards the realisation of the third objective of the Millennium Development Goals
- The African Women Rights Observatory newsletter now available
- The International Criminal Court condemns the recent events in Guinea
- Tutoring/mentoring programme to promote gender in scientific courses of studies at Université de Lomé
- Tutoring/mentoring to promote gender in scientific courses of studies at Université de Lomé
- Using IT to promote women’s rights in Togo
- WILDAF-West Africa received African Women Development Fund delegation
- Women demand more positions in government
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Africa Union
- 45th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
- 46th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- 46th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- African-Union summit and pre-summit on gender
- African-Union summit and pre-summit on gender
- Echoes of the 2nd African Union Gender pre Summit
- Echoes of the 2nd African Union Gender pre Summit
- REPORT OF THE 2ND PRE SUMMIT ON GENDER
- The African Women Rights Observatory newsletter now available
- The Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights: it remains one ratification for its entry into force
- The Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights: it remains one ratification for its entry into force
- Beijing + 15
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Protocol
- After Guinea-Bissau, we count one more ratification
- Gender Expert Meeting on State Reporting to the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Gender Expert Meeting on State Reporting to the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Guidelines for state reporting under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Indicators to monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
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Africa News
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2010
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Africa News
- CIVIL SOCIETY EXPERT CONSULTATION ON MATERNAL, CHILD & INFANT HEALTH & SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN AFRICA
- Communiqué du GF2D
- Girl’s week, 2010 edition: « Girls and boys, together for the promotion of women’s rights and the culture of excellence »
- Guinea: Solidarity Mission in support of the women, victims of the 28th September 2009 crisis
- PRESIDENT GUEBUZA WINNER OF THE AFRICAN GENDER AWARD 2009
- Press Release on Gender Award Prize 2009
- Press release on solidarity mission in Guinea
- Rural women key to economic growth
- The African Women’s day: beyond festivities, here is the opportunity for our advocacies
- Time for commitment is over, Time for Action now!
- Togo gets First Woman Presidential candidate
- UEMOA will launch a Regional Fund for Agricultural Development in 2010
- Vote of the law on absolute parity in Senegal: a strong invitation to other African countries at the beginning of the African Women’s Decade
- Africa Union
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Africa News
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Campaigns
- 2003
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2004
- Act now! The PROTOCOL on the rights of women in Africa in force now in 2005!
- Arguments for the ratification and implementation of the Protocol on the Rights of Women
- Campaign for the rapid ratification of the protocol to the ACHPR on the Rights of Women
- Everybody for the RATIFICATION of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa!
- Urgent action for the ratification of the Protocol of the ACHPR for the Rights of Women in Africa and to the inclusion of women in all spheres of action of the African Union!
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2005
- Campaign for the nomination of Women as judges at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Campaign for the nomination of Women as judges at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- West African Campaign for the ratification and the implementation of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
- 2006
- 2009
- 2010
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Events
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Actual
- African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
- Call for papers: International Conference on Culture, Communication and Globalization
- CEDAW Committee
- Combating violence against women: from legislation to its effective enforcement
- Conference on diversity, human rights, racism and the intercultural dialogue/14-19 November 2006
- Global Conference on maternal health and childbirth
- Human Rights Commission
- Human Rights Committee
- Important dates for the rights of women
- International Conference on Sexual Violence: Promising strategies for diverse needs
- Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
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Past
- 19-21 June 2006: 2nd African Conference on rights and sexual health: Sexuality, economy and development in Africa
- 1-2 May 2005: African Gender Award 2005
- 11 to 14 August 2005: The World Youth, Development and ICT Conference (WYDI 2005)
- 13-24 June 2005: Workshop: Abandoning Female Genital Cutting
- 16 days of activism against gender violence: 25 November to 10 December 2004
- 16-18 November 2005: World Summit on Information Society
- 18 to 22 April 2005: Foundations in Developmental Practice
- 19 to 30 September 2005: 3rd Preparatory Conference of the WSIS
- 19-23 January 2006: World social forum
- 1st July 2006- 25th commemoration anniversary of the human and people’s rights charter in African union summit Banjul, Gambia
- 20-22 March, 2006: Role of the Media in the Development of Education in Africa
- 2005 Calendar of United Nations Events
- 21 to 25 September 2005: 10th International Women and Health Meeting
- 21-24 November 2005: Sub-regional symposium on "Gender, human rights and culture"
- 22 to 25 March 2005: Women’s rights in Africa: Outcomes and perspectives considering the prospective strategies of Nairobi and the Platform for Action of Beijing
- 24th - 26th November 2005: Portugal: Conference on ESC Rights
- 24th Oct. to 11th Nov., 2005: Training: Promoting gender and human rights in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS
- 27 February - 10 March 2006: The 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
- 27 February 2005: From Mexico City to Beijing and Beyond
- 27 to 30 August 2005: Consultation on the optional protocol to CEDAW
- 27-30 October 2005: AWID 10th Forum: “HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN?”
- 28 February to 11 March 2005: 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
- 2nd Human Rights World Forum
- 3 to 5 August 2005: Women and ICT: challenges and opportunities
- 39th ORDINARY SESSION of the African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights
- 3rd African Social Forum
- 3rd UN World Urban Forum
- 3th AfrEA Conference
- 4 to 15 July 2005: Behaviour & Social Change in HIV/AIDS
- 4 to 7 April 2005: 7th International AIDS Impact Conference
- 49th session of Commission on the Status of Women 2005
- 5 April: Southern African Regional Gender Mainstreaming Symposium
- 5-9 September 2005: Gender Equality in Africa
- 6 June to 16 July 2005: 7th Regional Course on Social Mobilisation for Health & Development
- 6 to 10 December, 2005:"Rethinking African Development: Beyond Impasse, Towards Alternatives"
- 6 to 10 June 2005: Advocacy & Policy Influencing
- African Regional Prep Comm for WSIS
- Committee against Torture
- Committee on children rigths
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Conference on Africa and media by UNESCO
- Gender, Citizenship and Governance
- July 2005: African Civil Society Forum: Democratizing Governance at the Regional and Global Level to Achieve the MDG’s
- June/July 2005: Training on Gender Policy and HIV/AIDS
- May 23-26, 2006: International symposium on training and research in population and development of Africa: issues and challenges
- November 21 - December 2, 2005: Participatory, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Course, Kenya
- The 2005 People’s Forum: 6th to 8th July, 2005
- Women and ICT: Challenges and Opportunities on the Road to Tunis 2005
- World AIDS day: 1st December
- World Social Forum (WSF) 2005
- World Summit on Family
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Actual
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Funding information
- 2004
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2005
- 1 March 2005: WWSF Award - For women in rural empowerment
- 15 March 2006: Call for Biodiversity projects: “combine the conservation with sustainable development”
- 1st November 2005: Communication and Social Change Award
- 30 May 2005: UNDP Concept Note Call
- 31 July 2005: AISI Media Awards
- 31 March 2005: CALL FOR PROJECT from the AIF
- 5 August 2005: WSIS - PrepCom 3: Fellowships for LDC participants representatives
- More than one deadline: Grants offered by the Panos Institute West Africa
- No precise deadline: Funding from Urgent Action Fund-Africa
- 2006
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Network news
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2004
- April
- December
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January
- Building the Intervention Capacity of Young Magistrates Ending Their Internship
- Capacity Building of Judicial and Extrajudicial Stakeholder in Mali: a traditional ruler committed to women’s rights
- Malian Women Study CEDAW
- Network news as of January 1st 2004
- Support Network for Combating Violence Against Women
- The WiLDAF Ghana has a new coordinator: Welcome
- WiLDAF/FeDDAF West Africa Network will be at the 48th session of the CSW at the United Nations
- July
- October
- 2005
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2006
- April
- August
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December
- 16 days of activism to end violence against women and girls from November 25th to December 10th.
- 25 November -International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
- News on the protocol in Niger
- WILDAF NIGERIA
- WiLDAF West Africa Networks 16 days activism programme
- WILDAF-Togo
- WILDAF/SENEGAL
- January
- July
- October
- September
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2007
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April
- 2nd Series of Decentralized workshops
- 51st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
- Discussion list for the WiLDAF/FeDDAF NETWORK
- Ghana: An overview of implementation of the project “Good Governance and Participation of Women in seven (7) West African countries”
- Impression of Mrs Eva Hazel, participant of decentralized workshop in Téma
- Impressions of Mrs. Eva Haizel and Patience Dapaah on the Training Workshop on Governance project
- News about Communication office
- The Domestic Violence Act: a befitting Golden Jubilee Gift for Ghanaian Women
- WiLDAF-West Africa at the 51st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CCF/ CSW)
- Women and Leadership
- December
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January
- 16 days of activism against violence towards women and girls
- Togo: Adoption of legislation as regards discrimination and sexual harassment in professional environment in Togo.
- Training in the framework of the project « Good governance and participation of women in seven (7) countries in West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo”
- WiLDAF-Togo decided to introduce the Protocol on the African Charter of Human and People’s related to the Rights of Women in Africa.
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July
- Beyond the folklore, an obvious will of Togolese women to influence from now on politician decisions
- Implementation of the « Women and good governance in Senegal » project
- Senegalese women have lost a battle and not the war: the law on parity has been declared unconstitutional by the constitutional Court
- The WiLDAF/FeDDAF West Africa Newsletter for July, 2007 is now available.
- WiLDAF Ghana: The network prepares post ratification strategies of the protocol
- WiLDAF-Ghana prepares post-ratification strategies for the implementation of the protocol
- WiLDAF-Mali
- WiLDAF-WEST AFRICA
- May
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October
- Activities of « Women and good governance in Mali » coalitions
- Assessment of women’s participation in the 2007 presidential and legislative elections
- At the regional Office
- Priorities of «women and good governance » coalitions in Mali
- Ten Years Already!
- WiLDAF-Togo: Sending of the justification letter to the various ministerial departments
- WiLDAF/FeDDAF- Mali
- WiLDAF/FeDDAF- Senegal
- WiLDAF/FeDDAF- Togo: Celebration of the African Women’s Day
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April
- 2009
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2010
- Green revolution in Africa: 2-day dialogue for a better partnership of stakeholders
- Participation of WILDAF-WA in the 15th African Women’s AU Pre-summit consultation on gender mainstreaming in the African Union
- Rural women’s empowerment: the paralegal farmers are more determined thane ever to bring their contribution
- Strategic Planning Meeting of WILDAF West Africa
- The new Family Code in Mali: WILDAF takes up actions to accelerate its adoption
- Togo: free caesarean section to be effective by 2011
- Towards a Human Rights Strategy and Governance Architecture for Africa
- WILDAF West Africa Activity Report 2009
- WiLDAF-West Africa on the field
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2004
- Newsletters
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Press Release
- 2003
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2004
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August
- 5th Sub-Regional Evaluation meeting on Beijing+10 from 22nd to 23rd July in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
- Beijing+10 in Africa: 16 West African NGOs will be meeting on August 26th and 27th in Lomé for the evaluation of the implementation of the Beijing platform
- The executive committee of the West African Civil Society Forum will meet in Lomé to plan the next General Assembly and get in touch with Togolese civil society
- The participation of African women in all spheres of society is essential for the development of Africa
- December
- February
- January
- July
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June
- African Commission on Human and People’s Rights 35th session held in Banjul, Gambia 21st May -4th June 2004
- Discriminatory measures against women in the Benin Code of Persons and Family has just been amended finally
- Response to Statement made by the Special Rapporteur on African Commission on Human and People’s Rights 35th session held in Banjul, Gambia 21st May -4th June 2004
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March
- A woman being elected as the first President of the Pan-African Parliament: congratulation to the Honorable Mrs Mongella for her nomination !
- Statement presented at The 48th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
- WiLDAF/FeDDAF West Africa is happy to announce that Dorcas Appiah-Coker has been nominated on the CEDAW committee
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November
- Hajara IBRAHIM’s case on judgment soon
- Hajara IBRAHIM’s gets justice!
- Ratification of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: just another step to go and Senegal will soon be able to deposit its instrument of ratification
- Ratification of the Protocol to the ACHPR on the Rights of Women in Africa: another country ratified, Lesotho
- October
- September
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August
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
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2009
- Press Release
- Signing of settlement agreement between the Togolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and the WILDAF-West Africa Sub-regional office
- Signing of settlement agreement between the Togolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and the WILDAF-West Africa Sub-regional office
- WILDAF-WEST AFRICA at the 8th African Regional Conference on women (Beijing + 15): Make West African women’s voice heard
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Women and Governance
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2006
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October
- A Female President of the UN General Assembly
- Interview with Mrs. Adwoa Sakyi, President of General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana Trade Union Congress, member of the coalition Women and Governance in Ghana
- Interview with Mrs. AYAYI Léontine, President of Global March of Togolese women, coordinator of the coalition Women and Governance in Togo.
- The United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children
- WiLDAF West Africa at the 4th Africities Summit in Nairobi: the participation of population groups, notably women, at the center of debate
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October
- 2007
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2006
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Women and UN Reforms
- A meeting will be held in November 9, 2006, at the General-Assembly of the United Nations concerning the creation of a new Agency for women.
- Briefing note on women’s rights and the “Coherence panel” in the UN reform process
- Statement concerning the creation of a new Agency for women
- Summary Report on the High-level Panel on Coherence Held in Geneva, Switzerland on Sunday, July 2, 2006
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Women of honour
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2004
- A special on grassroots women in Geo
- Appointment of an Ugandan women as Special Adviser on parity at the UN
- GODELIÈVE MUKASARASI is the winner of the 2004 John-Humphrey Freedom Award
- Kenya: National award honours women’s activist state investiture
- Lauching of an international search for 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, Switzerland
- Perdita Huston Human Rights Award for Mrs Fatoumata Traoré
- The United Nations Development Programme honours five with poverty eradication award
- Title of Doctor Honoris Causa for Mrs Shirin Cziffra
- UN has paid tribute to human rights defenders
- Women’s Leadership and the Future of Africa
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2005
- 37 West African women out of 1000 women were nominees for 2005 Peace Nobel prize
- An African woman among the 10 Sigrid Rausing Trust Award Winners
- Launching of an African prize « Women of subsistence »
- Nobel Peace Award to WANGARI MAATHAI
- Three African Women Nominated for the Perdita Huston Award 2005
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2006
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, first woman elected as Head of State in Africa
- Four African activists including two women were honoured with the NED award of liberty
- Mary Watson from South Africa won the seventh Caine Prize
- Mrs. Jennifer Williams nominees for the 2006 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
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2007
- Mrs Salamatou TRAORE International Prize for the health and dignity of women” by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- Mrs. Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro , UN Deputy Secretary General
- Mrs. Graça Simbine Machel-Mandela received the "Visionary Award 2007”
- POSTHUME TRIBUTE OF WILDAF to the Late Mrs Hawa Yakubu, a worthy daughter of Africa.
- 2009
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2004
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World news
- A woman is appointed for the first time in history at the head of UNESCO
- At last a new UN agency dedicated to women’s rights!
- Millennium Development Goals Report 2010: the news is not quite good
- New measures to fight domestic violence in France
- Recommendations of the Regional steering committee on women, peace and security on the Resolution 1325
- Recommendations on the UN Resolution 1325
- The peasant movement requires an International Convention on the Rights of Peasants men and women
- The UN Security Council adopted the Resolution 1889 on women, peace and security
- The United Nations adopted recently a new resolution to protect women against conflict-related sexual violence
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2004
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April
- Beijing + 10 or a fifth World Conference on Women
- Everything you want to know about the CEDAW committee: an interview with Dorcas COKER-APPIAH, President of the regional African network of WiLDAF/FeDDAF
- International: Violence Against Women feature: Asylum seeking women confronted with specific obstacles
- What’s next at the World March of Women in 2005
- Women in parliaments 2003: Nordic and post-conflict countries in the lead
- January
- July
- October
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April
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2005
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April
- Anticipating Millennium + 5
- BEIJING +10: End of the 49th session of CSW
- Effective Participation of African’s Women in the CSW Process: a Lot Remains To Be Done
- International: HIPC has ‘failed’: Statement from the Commonwealth civil society
- Letter to Kofi Annan for the inclusion of gender perspective in the revision of the MDGs
- Rising up in Response: Women’s rights activism in conflict situations
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January
- Beijing+10 in New York
- Follow-up on the CEDAW
- International: WLUML statement to the World Social Forum - Appeal Against Fundamentalist
- Monitoring civil and political rights by the Human Rights Committee
- The 2007 World Social Forum in Africa?
- What is the International Criminal Court?
- Women’s Global Charter for Humanity
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July
- Anticipating the Millennium+5
- Gender parity in secondary education - are we there yet ?
- International: Putrajaya declaration and programme of action on the advancement of women
- International: World Bank Report says increasing number of girls affected by HIV/AIDS, announces three-year initiative
- MADRE Critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals
- Making progress in the negotiation of the final declaration on the Millennium + 5
- National-level advocacy ensuring that sexual and reproductive health remains in the MDGs
- March
- October
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April
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2006
- Project: “Take our Daughters to Work” An experience which merits attention and repetition across the sub-region.
- Women and UN reforms
- April
- December
- January
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July
- Amnesty International 2006 report: the situation of human rights in the word/Amnesty international
- ECOWAS and UNESCO agree to work for the realisation of millennium development goals
- Gender book N°40: work and universalisation
- Pope Requests Report on Condom Ban
- The United Nations reform process - Women and the UN reforms - Declaration on the reforms
- TOLBA; an aid association for refugees
- Trafficking in persons report
- October
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2007
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April
- 2007 February 16, a special event commemorates 10 years of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
- Berlin, Germany 2007, Global Summit of Women June 14-16, 2007
- Catalogues, livres, ressources de formation sur les femmes et
- February 6, 2007 f: World day against female genital mutilations
- International Women’s Day
- Poverty, Gender and Human Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rethinking Best Practices in Migration Management
- Report on francophone researchers on-line since November 23rd, 2006
- The Money & Movements meeting is now over, the resource section is now available online
- Third conference in Women’s Peace Conference
- United Nations: 2008, International Year of Stabilization/Streamlining
- WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women
- Women, Microfinance and savings: propositions drawn from the analysis of informal practices
- December
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January
- Adoption of the Daphne III Program by the European Parliament
- Amnesty International actively fights against violence
- Burkina Faso: a Congolese Gynecologist “repairs” excisions
- Call to the Halde projects: « 2007 : European year of equal chances for all”
- Extreme Poverty: a violation of Human Rights?
- Gender and Disabilities- Intersection of Analyses / Handicap International
- HIV/AIDS: Women pay the heaviest price
- Professional life and Birth: the responsibility of reconciling the two essentially lies on women
- Report on a thorough study of all violence with regard to women
- Report on the workshop « Equality of women and men, religions, traditions: what are the relationships? »
- The Administrative Counsel of the Bill Clinton Foundation for Peace
- The French socialist SÉGOLÈNE ROYAL, candidate at the presidential election in France
- The practice of Female Genital Mutilation will soon be illegal in Guinea-Bissau.
- Women’s Initiative « Nobel Peace Prize »
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July
- 2007 Prize «Changing the Face of Philanthropy » Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi congratulated by AWID
- Canada: Quebec creates the first cabinet that reflects gender parity
- Famous Women in History
- International Freedom of the Press Day
- Mauritania: Implementation of the CEDAW Committee’s recommendations
- Meeting of ‘Women in Resistance: reinforce alliances with the goal of social mobilization’
- The European Union signs the UN Convention on handicapped people
- The world’s most feminized government is in Finland
- Why are women struggling to exercise power?
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March
- A document on the participation of women in decision-making in West Africa
- A reflection on the significance of this day
- Agreed conclusions from the official session
- Declaration of the African Women’s Caucus
- Documents on best practices in the fight against violence done to women and girls in the West African countries in general (for example Ghana, Benin and Mauritania)
- International Women’s Day
- Status of violence against women and girl children in West Africa
- Status of violence against women and girl children in West Africa
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October
- 2007 Report on Labour Equality
- A United Government of Africa: Its Now or Never
- « Purity Dances » and fundamentalism in the United States
- Les femmes et les missions de paix de l’ONU
- Practical guide for showing the project by GRDR Africa and ECO Development
- Report of the OIT on the state of discrimination in the business world
- Summaries of AWID money and movement sessions are now available!
- The « Banmujer », a only bank, for women, by women
- The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has put a bulletin on line.
- The Political Power of friendship / by Élaine Audet
- UNDP publishes its Annual Report in 2007
- UNIFEM launched a new version of its Internet portal on sensible gender budgeting
- Women in National Parliaments: The situation as of August 31, 2007
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April
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2008
- CEDAW
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World News
- OIF and Genre en Action to encourage the participation of francophone organisations at the 2008 AWID Forum
- Record high number of women take seats in parliamentary renewals in 2008
- UN Security Council takes actions against violence in conflicts areas
- UNO organizes an online discussion on the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men
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2009
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CEDAW
- A brief story about CEDAW convention
- Number of ratifications CEDAW
- One more step to end discrimination against women: Guinea-Bissau ratified the OP CEDAW
- One more step to end discrimination against women: Guinea-Bissau ratified the OP CEDAW
- Rwanda submitted its report to the CEDAW committee
- Rwanda’s report to the CEDAW committee
- The potential of CEDAW for achieving gender equality
- The potential of CEDAW for achieving gender equality
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CSW 2009
- Invitation ... Invitation ... Invitation
- STATEMENT OF THE AFRICAN WOMEN’ CAUCUS AT THE 53rd SESSION ON THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
- STATEMENT OF THE AFRICAN WOMEN’S CAUCUS AT THE 53rd
- The unequal sharing of domestic responsibilities in the HIV/AIDS context
- WILDAF at the 53rd session of the CSW
- WILDAF issued a statement at the CSW 53
- WILDAF STATEMENT AT CSW 53
- Women’s participation in decision making in West Africa
- Paris Declaration
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World News
- 2009 activism campaign to end violence against women: ACT NOW!
- 2009 World Survey on Women’s Control over Economic Resources and Access to Financial Resources: gender equality contribute to economic development
- A woman is elected for the first time in history at the head of UNESCO
- At last a new UN agency dedicated to women’s rights!
- Beyond education, invest in the development of girls’ professional skills
- Declaration of Peasants women and men
- Four women appointed at the International Criminal Court
- France: A spot on domestic violence
- GEAR Campaign Meeting With UN Deputy Secretary-General
- Gender and Governance
- Global Monitoring Report: a development emergency
- Human Rights Day 2009
- New measures to fight domestic violence in France
- New World Bank Report on girls education
- South African legal expert takes over as new UN Special Rapporteur
- South African legal expert takes over as new UN Special Rapporteur
- The 2008 Social Watch report: rights must occupy a central position
- The global women’s rights landscape in 2008
- The peasant movement requires an International Convention on the Rights of Peasants men and women
- The UN Security Council adopted the Resolution 1889 on women, peace and security
- The United Nations adopted recently a new resolution to protect women against conflict-related sexual violence
- UN Resolution 1889
- UN Resolution on System-wide Coherence
- UNFPA State of World Population 2009: Facing a changing world: women, population and climate
- Women’s rights and environment
- Women’s World Summit Foundation to reward rural women
- WORLD SUMMIT ON FOOD SECURITY : Eradicate the silent hunger crisis
- « United to end violence against women »: Africa joins the campaign
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CEDAW
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2010
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CEDAW
- 46th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Burkina Faso to submit its shadow report to the CEDAW Committee
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP CEDAW)
- CSW 54
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World news
- Investing in agriculture and women’s empowerment is a key factor to African Recovery
- "Keeping the Promise”: gender equality, maternal and child health
- 6th February: International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation
- AT LAST A SINGLE GENDER ENTITY "UN-WOMEN"!
- Ban attends the first meeting of the MDG Advocacy Group in Madrid
- GEAR-UP for a more ambitious women’s agency
- Health and development in the heart of discussions at the 43rd session of the Commission on Population and Development
- International Women’s Day 2010: 100-year century
- MDGs pre-summit with Non-governmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector
- More powerful UN gender equality entity finally on the way?
- New FAO database eyes gender gap in land rights
- Report on the resolution 1325
- Resolution on the creation of "UN Women"
- Security Council to Act on Indicators for Tracking Implementation of Landmark Text Addressing Women, Peace and Security
- TOWARDS GENDER RESPONSIVE AND EQUITABLE CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCING
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CEDAW
Priorities
Articles
- Beijing+10, ICPD+10 and Millennium development goals
- Ratification and implementation of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Uganda ratified the Maputo protocol on women’s rights
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Activities report
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2004
- Gestion administrative et financière
- Les activités des réseaux nationaux: Bénin
- Les activités des réseaux nationaux: Burkina Faso
- Les activités des réseaux nationaux: Ghana
- Les activités des réseaux nationaux: Mali
- Les activités des réseaux nationaux: Nigeria
- Les activités des réseaux nationaux: Sénégal
- Les activités des réseaux nationaux: Togo
- Les activités du bureau sous-régional: Activités de communication
- Les activités du bureau sous-régional: Le WiLDAF/FeDDAF et la mobilisation des organisations de droits de la femme en Afrique de l’Ouest dans le cadre du processus d’évaluation de la plate forme d’action de Beijing
- Les activités du bureau sous-régional: Lobbying pour la ratification du Protocole à la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples relatif aux droits des femmes
- Les activités du bureau sous-régional: Participation aux réunions et aux activités aux niveaux régional et international
- Les activités du bureau sous-régional: Projet de sensibilisation et renforcement de capacités des acteurs judiciaires et extrajudiciaires pour la mise en oeuvre effective des droits des femmes en Afrique de l’Ouest (UE2)
- Perspective pour 2005
- 2008
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2004
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Court decisions
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Bénin
- Appeal on inconstitutional rule on women’s rights on 18 August 2003 (in French)
- Decision DCC 02-144 of the Constitutional Court (in French)
- Law 2002-07 on the Family Law (in French)
- Law no 2003-03 to suppress the practice of female genital mutilation adopted 21 January 2003 (in French)
- Law no 2003-04 to define principles and rights concerning reproduction health adopted 24 January 2003 (in French)
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- Ghana
- Mali
- Senegal
- Togo
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Bénin
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- Accra Agenda for Action (Simplified version)
- Amnesty International report on sexual violence carried out on women in Côte d’Ivoire
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- New report of the World Bank on Africa Development Indicators 2006 - ADI
- New Web Site: Training Wiki on gender
- The Report of the Millenium Goals for Development-2006
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- Twenty (20) Key Gender Websites in French
- UN INSTRAW GAINS Database
- World wide report on human development 2006 by Elise Bogey and Khalid Elamrani (November, 2006)
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- UN Secretary-General’s in-depth study report on violence against women
- “Women and parliament: an international perspective”, by Manon Tremblay
- 2006 Millennium Development Goals Report
- 2007 Report on the state of human rights
- African Governance Report 2005
- Amnesty International report on sexual violence carried out on women in Côte d’Ivoire
- An inquiry on rape in the Bamako District.
- An inquiry on rape in the Bamako District.
- Assuring Equality, Integration of the gender aspect in peace: A guide on policies and planning for women, peace and security
- « A deathly silence: Hidden masculine violence », by Romito Patrizia
- « Africa in danger: Reflections by a woman engaged in Prostitution »
- « Sex, gender and politics », by Catherine Achin (Ed. Paris: Economica, 2007).
- «Women and mentorat?», by Martine Blanc and Christine Cuerrier (May, 2007)
- Education for All data available
- Follow-up indicators on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination towards Women (CEDEF) and on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Gender differences and health
- Global: The world’s women 2005 - progress in statistics
- Human Rights Watch report on sexual violence cases in Côte d’Ivoire
- Human Rights Watch report on sexual violence cases in Côte d’Ivoire
- Human Rights Watch Report: Abuse against domestic workers around the world
- Incorporating Gender into your NGO
- Manual of the United Nations Human Rights Special Procedures
- New article
- New Edition of “Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers"
- New report of the World Bank on Africa Development Indicators 2006 - ADI
- Report on human development in the Arab world denounces discrimination towards women
- The Sisyphe site publishes material on modern feminism
- The WHO put on line a health and environment glossary
- Togo Child Trafficking Human Interest Stories December 2005
- Women and Power
- Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers. A New Edition
- Women in Politics: 60 years in retrospect
- Women, age, and health: an action framework
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RECORDS
- “Political Shari’a”? Human Rights and Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria
- “Where is the money for women rights?”
- 2004 AIDS Epidemic Update
- 5th annual Trafficking in Persons Report 2005
- A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All
- Advance Social Watch Report 2005: Unkept Promises
- Advocating for Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Context of the Five-Year Review of the Millennium Declaration
- Africa and the Doha Round: Fighting to keep development alive
- Africa’s Orphaned Generations
- African Commitments to Democracy in Theory and Practice: A Review of Eight NEPAD Countries
- African Economic Outlook 2004/2005: Country studies
- All Global Monitoring Report: Literacy for life
- Amnesty International Report 2005
- Annotated Bibliography on the CEDAW
- ‘3 by 5’ Progress Report - December 2004
- Beyond the targets. Ensuring children benefit from expanded access to HIV/AIDS treatment
- Bottom of the Barrel: Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor
- Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women
- Citoyennes africaines de la société de l’information
- Coming to terms with sexual harassment in Ghana
- Compilation of the Decisions on Communications of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1994 - 2001)
- Debt to women concept: reflections on a just and caring economy, alternatives to globalisation
- Declaration of Yamoussoukro, January 2002
- Documents of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone
- Draft of a multilateral agreement in West Africa against children trafficking (in French)
- Draft Ouagadougou Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings, especially Women and Children, 28 November 2002, Burkina Faso
- ECOWAS Gender Policy
- Education for all
- Equality of women: beyond the illusion
- From Combat to Community: Women and Girls from Sierra Leone
- G8 Gleneagles 2005
- Gender and Peace-building in Africa
- Gender Equality and Trade-Related Capacity Building
- Gender issues in the African Union, NEPAD and the Pan African Parliament: two perspectives
- Gender, Millennium Development Goals, and Human Rights in the Context of the 2005 Review Process
- Gender, women and health: incorporating a gender perspective into the mainstream of WHO’s policies and programmes
- Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Leadership Challenge
- Girls can’t wait. Briefing paper for the UN Beijing+10
- Global report: A global alliance against forced labour
- Globalisation and Democracy: A Dialectical Framework for Under-standing Democratisation in Nigeria
- Guide for Global Health Research funding
- Human Development Report 2004
- In Larger Freedom
- Joint ECOWAS/UNODCCP/CICP Regional Meeting of Experts on Trafficking in Persons, December 2002
- La corruption au quotidien en Afrique de l’Ouest
- La dimension féminine du VIH/Sida en Afrique
- Le développement dans la spirale des lois du marché - le cas du NEPAD
- Le trafic des enfants : Mission d’enquête sur la traite des enfants au Bénin
- Lives worth saving: Abortion care in sub-Saharan Africa since ICPD. A progress report
- Make every mother and child count
- Maternal mortality in 2000: Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA
- Meeting the Challenges of Unemployment and Poverty in Africa
- Millennium Development Goals from UNECA point of view
- NEPAD and Civil Society Participation in the APRM
- Nigeria: Unheard voices - violence against women in the family
- Perspective on governance with recommendations and action plan: West Africa subregion
- Plan of action for the implementation of the agricultural policy: main conclusions and recommendations
- Prioritising Budgets for poverty Reduction
- Producing NGO shadow Reports to CEDAW: A Procedural Guide
- Programme Plan for Fight Against child Trafficking
- Progress for children. A report card on gender parity and primary education
- Progress of the World’s Women 2005
- Report from the Special Rapporteur against gender violence, its causes and its consequences (61st session)
- Report from the WSIS Gender Caucus of the PrepCom 1 for the WSIS
- Report of the 49th session: Beijing+10
- Review and Appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform
- Sexual and reproductive health for women living with HIV/AIDS in french-speaking Africa: a review of the literature and policies
- Sexual violence epidemic exposes flaws in gender and minority protection
- Shadow report of Algeria for CEDAW Committee
- State of the World Population 2004
- State of the World’s Mothers 2004
- Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals
- Summary of a report on trafficking of children between Benin and Gabon
- The 2005 World Summit
- The Corruption Barometer
- The Feminization of HIV/AIDS: Ten Unavoidable Choices for African Leaders
- The Missing Link in Growth and Sustainable Development: Closing the Gender Gap
- The NEPAD, gender and the poverty trap
- The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Rights (June 2005)
- The State of the World’s Children
- The young face of NEPAD: children and young people in the NEPAD
- To have or to hold: Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights in the context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Trading away our rights: Women working in Global Supply Chains
- Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children in Africa
- United Nations’ Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children in West and Central Africa
- Where are the girls?
- Women 2000 and Beyond: Gender equality and empowerment of women through ICT
- Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis
- Women Global Charter for Humanity
- Women in the Economy of Solidarity
- Women of our World
- Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives
- World Health Report 2003
- References documents
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Useful links
- ‘Countdown 2015: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All’
- Coalition for Improving Maternity Services
- Genre en Action
- Human Rights Education Associates
- Mano River Women’s Peace Network
- Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
- Stop Violence against Women of Amnesty International
- Women in politics
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WiLDAF/FeDDAF’s Publications
- Access to women to legal and judicial services in Sub-Saharan Africa: report of the workshop of Lomé, 27-30 November (2000)
- Action plan for women’s access to legal and judicial services 2000-2005 in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000)
- Advocacy for a better implementation of women’s rights in Ghana (2002)
- Advocacy for a better implementation of women’s rights in Nigeria (2002)
- Advocacy for the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women (2000)
- Aide-memoire for doctors treating alleged victims of violence (2002)
- CEDAW (2002)
- CEDAW daily implementation in Ghana (2002)
- CEDAW daily implementation in Nigeria (2002)
- CEDAW made easy (2002)
- Effective implementation of women’s rights in West Africa. Summary (2004)
- Effective implementation of women’s rights in West Africa. Synthesis (2004)
- Explanatory guide to the Aide-memoire for doctors treating alleged victims of violence (2002)
- For a world free of violence against women in Ghana (2002)
- For a world free of violence against women in Nigeria (2002)
- Guide for working with women victims of violence (2000)
- Guide pour la prise en charge des victimes du harcèlement sexuel en milieux scolaires, universitaires et sur les lieux d’apprentissage (2001)
- Le leadership au féminin (2003)
- Legal rights organising for women in Africa, a trainer’s manual of WiLDAF Harare (2000)
- Manuel de formation aux droits humains des femmes pour les personnes travaillant avec les femmes réfugiées en Guinée-Conakry (2002)
- Plaidoyer pour une effectivité des droits de la femme au Bénin (2002)
- Plaidoyer pour une effectivité des droits de la femme au Burkina Faso (2002)
- Plaidoyer pour une effectivité des droits de la femme au Mali (2002)
- Plaidoyer pour une effectivité des droits de la femme au Sénégal (2002)
- Plaidoyer pour une effectivité des droits de la femme au Togo (2002)
- Pour la mise en Å“uvre au quotidien de la CEDEF au Bénin (2002)
- Pour la mise en Å“uvre au quotidien de la CEDEF au Burkina Faso (2002)
- Pour la mise en Å“uvre au quotidien de la CEDEF au Mali (2002)
- Pour la mise en Å“uvre au quotidien de la CEDEF au Sénégal (2002)
- Pour la mise en Å“uvre au quotidien de la CEDEF au Togo (2002)
- Pour une société sans violence à l’égard des femmes au Bénin (2002)
- Pour une société sans violence à l’égard des femmes au Burkina Faso (2002)
- Pour une société sans violence à l’égard des femmes au Sénégal (2002)
- Pour une société sans violence à l’égard des femmes au Togo (2002)
- Strategies and actions to be taken for the adoption, the ratification and the implementation of the additional Protocol (2001)
- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2004)
- The Simplified Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Training manuel on women’s rights in Sierra Leone (2002)
- West Africa NGOs report on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (2004)
- Women in politics (2001)
- Women’s rights situation
Rubriques et articles pas bons
- Do you know that?
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Main current activities
- ‘‘Good governance and women’s participation in West Africa’’,
- Beijing+10 : Participation to the evaluation of the implementation of the Beijing Platform
- Institutional support to national WiLDAF/FeDDAF in communication
- Lobbying for the ratification and the implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
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Past realizations
- Access of women to the judicial and legal services in Sub-saharian Africa
- Beyond Beijing: Strengthening the capacity of the women’s rights national networks to contribute to Women’s human rights achievement
- Follow-up of the lobbying and advocacy actions in preparation to the Second Expert Meeting of countries members of African Union (AU)
- Institutional support
- Mobilization of women’s rights and human rights organizations to contribute to the elaboration and to support the process of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on women’s rights
- Sensitization and capacity building of judicial and extra judicial actors for the effective implementation of women’s rights in West Africa
- Training and capacity building of political capacities of women in Togo
- Training of trainers in legal literacy and legal aid for women in Guinea and Sierra Leone
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Priorities
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ACTUAL
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Beijing+10, ICPD+10 and Millennium Development Goals
- African women on the way to Beijing + 10
- Beijing + 10
- Consultative meeting of regional and sub regional NGOs of Africa held in Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) on 22-23 July 2004 organised by the Economic Commission on Africa (ECA)
- Fact sheet on the evaluation process of the Beijing Platform
- Women’s Rights Are Not Negotiable
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Ratification and implementation of the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Conference on the ratification and domestication of the Protocol on women’s rights in Africa
- Follow-up on signatures and ratifications of the Protocol to the ACHPR on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Lobbying for the ratification and the implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
- Simplified version of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the rights of women in Africa to the range of all
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Beijing+10, ICPD+10 and Millennium Development Goals
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ACTUAL
- WiLDAF/FeDDAF in the media
- WiLDAF/FeDDAF’s Countries
News items
The sub site section
- Experiences
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Fil de presse
- Beyond the folklore, an obvious will of Togolese women to influence from now on politician decisions
- Coalition « Women and Good Governance » in West Africa.
- Discussion list for the WiLDAF/FeDDAF network
- European Union monitoring mission report in the frame of UE3 project
- Project «Good Governance and Participation of Women in seven (7) West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo»
- The coalition “Women and Good Governance in Togo”
- Women’s participation in governance: Good practices from Mauritania
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Project News
- European Union monitoring mission report in the frame of UE3 project
- How can information and communication technologies (ICT’s) be used as a tool to speed up women’s rights
- Project « Good Governance and Participation of Women in seven (7) West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo »
- The "Woman and Good Governance" coalition, a key player in the implementation of the “Good Governance and participation of women in seven (7) West African countries”.
- THE WiLDAF/FeDDAF NETWORK DISCUSSION LIST
- Women and good governance Network
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