Protecting Maputo Protocol is critical to resist anti-rights pushbacks and advance gender equality and right to health

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We invite you to another important SHE & Rights session on the regressive draft ‘African Charter on family, sovereignty and values,’ which threatens to undermine progress made on gender equality and right to health in the African continent.

This draft charter is yet another attack on sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice as well as bodily autonomy and human rights. It ‘urges’ African governments to withdraw from progressive and rights- and evidence-based agreements including the historic and legally binding Maputo Protocol (2003) which has been playing a defining role in promoting gender equality and protecting reproductive and health rights of women and girls in Africa.

Among growing global anti-rights and anti-gender backlash, this draft charter is an additional assault which is attempting to backslide progress made on gender equality and right to health – both of which are indivisible fundamental human rights.

Speakers

  • Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right To Health (video message) TBC
  • Sibusisiwe Ndlela, human rights lawyer; Attorney, High Court of South Africa; and Countering Anti-Rights Actors (CARA) Managing Lawyer, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA)
  • Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, South African legal practitioner practising as an advocate (barrister); member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates
  • Dr Pam Rajput, Professor Emeritus, Panjab University; former Chairperson of Government of India's High-Level Committee on the Status of Women
  • Shobha Shukla, SHE & Rights Host & Coordinator; and CNS Executive Director

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SHE & Rights team and partners