Feminist Organizing for Women's Human Rights in Africa: Current and Emerging Issues

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There have been some significant gains for women in Africa over the past 15 to 20 years. Women are taking positions of leadership in increasing numbers in political, economic, legal and social fields. In Rwanda, women constitute 64% in parliament, ranking it as the leading nation globally for representation by women in a legislature. In 2005, Africa witnessed the first woman president with the election of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia. There is legislation in countries such as Ghana, Kenya and South Africa against domestic and other forms of gender based violence.

While these achievements are welcome, there is still a big deficit in implementation of key international and national policies and laws. Thirty years after the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), many girls and women still do not have equal opportunities to realise their rights as recognised in law. It is against this background that AWDF convened a two day discussion on the state of women's human rights in Africa.

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: African Women\'s Development Fund., 2016

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