Litigating before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: A practice manual

We have developed this manual in response to requests from lawyers who have benefited from training on using the African Protocol on the Rights of Women when litigating human rights violations experienced by women.

Equality Now and the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) coalition have convened training sessions for lawyers since July 2011 and, over the past five years, have enhanced the capacity of more than 400 lawyers from 31 countries to litigate on women’s rights.

This manual will therefore lend further support to these and other lawyers who would like to bring cases to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.