The impact of the Maputo Protocol in selected African states
Edited by Susan Mutambasere, Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz and Davina Murden
2023
ISBN: 978-1-7764484-0-1
Pages: 323
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available
About the publication
This book assesses the impact and effectiveness of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) in 16 state parties. These countries are: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eswatini, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Each of the chapters traces the impact that the Protocol has had on the policies, laws, court decisions, civil society activism, and legal education in the particular state. Each chapter also discusses the relationship of the state with the African human rights mechanisms.
The book is an update of two prior volumes of essays, titled The impact of the African Charter and the Maputo Protocol in selected African states, published by PULP in 2012 and 2016, and edited by the Centre for Human Rights, Universityof Pretoria (Centre) and Victor Ayeni, respectively. The third edition, focused more narrowly on the Maputo Protocol, appears as the continent marks 20 years since the adoption of the Protocol on 11 July 2003. By 11 July 2023, 54 out of 55 African Union member states (with the exception of Morocco) have become party to the African Charter, and 44 of them have accepted the Maputo Protocol.
The book is edited by and contains several chapters by alumni of the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa programme of the Centre. The Centre intends to use this research as the basis for a continuously updated database on the impact of the African Charter and Maputo Protocol.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Commissioner Janet Ramatoulie Sallah-Njie
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Susan C Mutambasere and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz
1 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Burkina Faso
Finh Monique Carine Traoré
2 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Cameroon
Christèle Diwouta Ndongo
3 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Côte d’Ivoire
Pierre Olivier Lobé
4 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Trésor Muhindo Makunya, Eric Katusele Bayongi and Olivier Bahoze Baraka
5 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in the Kingdom of Eswatini
Simangele Mavundla
6 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Ethiopia
Henok Ashagrey
7 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in The Gambia
Basiru Bah
8 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Ghana
Ady Namaran Coulibaly
9 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Kenya
Josephat Kilonzo
10 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Lesotho
Itumeleng Shale
11 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Malawi
Sarai Chisala-Tempelhoff and Chikondi Mandala
12 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Mauritius
Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz
13 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Nigeria
Anthonia Lola Dickson
14 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Sierra Leone
Rashid Dumbuya
15 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Tanzania
Isabela Warioba
16 The impact of the Maputo Protocol in Zimbabwe
Sandra Bhatasara and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe