The Maputo Protocol is 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 was adopted by Heads of State and Government in Maputo, Mozambique...

The Maputo Protocol guaranteeing comprehensive rights to women was adopted by the AU on 11 July 2003, in Maputo, Mozambique. Following its adoption, AU Member States in the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa adopted in July 2004, undertook...

The Kampala Convention known as the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is an African Union treaty that addresses internal displacement in Africa caused by armed conflict, natural disasters and large scale...

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, known as the Maputo Protocol, is an international Human Rights Instrument established by the African Union and went into effect in 2005....