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Intervention on the Activity Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced Persons

Read Equality Now’s statement calling for equal nationality rights for women and their families in Africa, and stronger measures to ensure the AU Nationality Protocol advances gender equality and protects against statelessness.

Statement by Equality Now (Observer Status No. 281) on Agenda Item 5 Of the 89th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR

Equality Now calls for stronger implementation of the Maputo Protocol to protect women’s and girls’ rights across Africa. Our statement to the 89th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights urges ratification without reservations, withdrawal of existing reservations, submission of outstanding state reports, and development of a progressive continental framework to advance equality in marriage and the family.

Statement by Equality Now (Observer Status No. 281) on the Occasion of the 89th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Equality Now calls on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to safeguard existing human rights protections, protect women human rights defenders, tackle sexual and gender-based violence, urge Mali to criminalise female genital mutilation, and advance survivor-centred digital governance.