Breathing Life into the African Union

The papers in this book are the product of a conference jointly convened in Addis Ababa in September 2005 by the African Union Women, Gender and Development Directorate and Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR), a coalition of more than 20 gender, human rights and development NGOs in Africa, including the African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, FEMNET, Association des Juristes Maliennes, Equality Now, Fahamu, Fundao para o desenvolvimento da Comunidade (an organisation founded by Graa Machel in Mozambique), Oxfam GB and Women in Law and Development in Africa.

General situation of women in Africa	p. 3
Instruments on women's rights	p. 9
African union protocol on the rights of women in Africa : the SOAWR campaign	p. 14
Provisions of the protocol	p. 19
Domesticating the protocol	p. 28
Institutionalising strategies for the protocol	p. 34
Financing the protocol : considerations for influencing budgets from experiences in Tanzania	p. 38
Integrating the protocol and regional instruments : the case of SADC	p. 47
Harmonising the protocol with national legal systems	p. 51
Strategic litigation : a tool for domesticating the protocol?	p. 60
The case for alternative dispute resolution and negotiation as strategies for domestication of international human rights instruments	p. 71
Applying the protocol to women in conflict situations	p. 80
HIV/AIDS - a challenge to successful implementation	p. 86
The members of the solidarity for African women's rights coalition	p. 94
List of conference participants	p. 107
Countries which have ratified the AU protocol on the rights of women in Africa	p. 112
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Breathing Life into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa

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