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THE INTER-AFRICAN COMMITTEE ON HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES (IAC)
The Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children (IAC) is an international and African regional umbrella body that has been working on policy programmes and actions to eliminate Harmful Traditional Practices in the African Region and worldwide.
Le Comité interafricain sur les pratiques traditionnelles affectant la santé des femmes et des enfants (IAC) est un organisme international et régional africain qui a travaillé sur des programmes et des actions politiques visant à éliminer les pratiques traditionnelles néfastes dans la région africaine et dans le monde entier.
Sierra Leone signed the Maputo Protocol in December, 2003 and ratified it in July, 2015. 2013-2018: The Agenda for Prosperity, which is a Poverty Reduction Strategy "made provisions for a standalone pillar on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in the National Development Plan". 2017: National Land Policy, estblished to promote GEWE by increasing women's access to land and ownership. 2017-2020: National Strategy for Financial Inclusion, aims "to make financial services available, accessible anf affordable for all Sierra Leoneans and MSMEs, and support inclusive and resilient private-sector led growth" . 2010-2013: National Gender Strategic Plan (mid term review in 2012). 2019-2023: National Gender Plan
SOAWR Steering Committee Meeting – Key Commitments
From the 22nd-24th of November 2022, SOAWR's Steering Committee members met in Mombasa, Kenya, to take stock of the SOAWR Strategic Plan (2019-2024) and its implementation. Following dynamic reflections on
SOAWR Conducts Maputo Protocol Ratification Missions to Egypt and Morocco
In October and November 2022, the Solidarity for African Women Rights Coalition (SOAWR) in partnership with various actors including the African Union Commission's Women, Gender and Youth Directorate (AUC-WGYD) conducted
SOAWR Statement to the 73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
In November 2022, on behalf of the SOAWR Coalition, member organisation Alliances for Africa (observer status number 235) submitted a statement to the 73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission
Why the Maputo Protocol Benefits Everyone: #MaputoProtocolAt19
One of the world's most comprehensive and progressive women's human rights instruments, the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) was adopted
Solidarity for African Women's rights (SOAWR) is a coalition of 63 civil society organizations across
the continent working to ensure that the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in
Africa remains on the agenda of policy makers and to urge all African leaders to safeguard the rights
of women through ratification and implementation of the Protocol.
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