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Africa’s groundbreaking women’s rights treaty turns 20 – the hits and misses of the Maputo protocol

2023 marks two decades since the adoption of the Maputo Protocol. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) is arguably the most progressive legally binding instrument on women’s and human rights instruments globally. A total of 44 African countries have signed […]

Bringing a war criminal to justice

For 96 hours, the orders kept coming. By the end, 287 people were dead, 387 women and children had been raped, and 13 villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had been robbed of any sense of normalcy. The trial of Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was the most emblematic, complex case the court in North […]

Scourge of racism haunts Black women and girls seeking healthcare

Women and girls of African descent face a “systemic and historical pattern” of racial abuse in the health sector in countries across the world, leaving them at increased risk of death during childbirth, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency said on Wednesday july 12, 2023. The scourge of racism continues for Black women and […]

Hunger afflicts one in ten globally, UN report finds

As many as 783 million people faced hunger worldwide in 2022 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including in Ukraine, according to a study launched by five United Nations agencies on Wednesday12 july 2023. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World revealed that between 691 and […]

UN calls for gender equality push, central to SDGs

At eight billion strong, the “human family is larger than ever”, but leaders are failing in efforts to ensure a peaceful and prosperous world for all, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message to mark World Population Day on Tuesday 11 july, 2023. “Halfway to the 2030 deadline the Sustainable Development Goals are dangerously […]