SOAWR

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The Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) is a coalition of 63 civil society organisations working across 32 countries. Established in 2004, SOAWR works to ensure that the rights of girls and women as articulated in the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (“The Maputo Protocol”) are prioritised by policymakers on the African continent.

The coalition has five main aims:

1. To contribute to the accelerated ratification of the Protocol in the states that have not ratified the Protocol.
2. To support the domestication and implementation of the Protocol in states that have ratified it.
3. To implement tracking and documentation mechanisms on the Protocol at the national and sub- regional levels.
4. To strengthen national community mobilisation efforts to popularise and use the Protocol.
5. To enhance conceptual clarity of coalition members around advocating for the Protocol.

References[]

• Karoline Kemp, "The SOAWR campaign and ICTs", Pambazuka News, accessed 13 July 2009
• Norah Matovu Winyi, 'A call to action: Implement the Africa Women's Rights Protocol', Pambazuka News, [1], accessed 13 July 2009
• Firoze Manji, Faiza Mohamed and Roselynn Musa, Breathing Life into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa, Fahamu Books, accessed 13 July 2009, ISBN 978-1-904855-66-8
• https://soawr.org/about-us/about-soawr/

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