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Momodou
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 Posted - 28 Nov 2006 : 11:57:09
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Foroyaa Editorial
Women's Protocol Another Step Required
As gender activists commemorate 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women, the state of the Protocol to The African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Women's Protocol) comes to the fore.
Violence against women is still perpetrated all over the continent in all its forms and in various circumstances. It takes the form of rape, wife battering, FGM, psychological violence and so on and so forth.
It happens in the homes, at offices, in war situations, etc, etc.
The Women's Protocol defines "Violence Against Women" as "all acts perpetrated against women which cause or could cause them physical, sexual, psychological, and economic harm, including the threat to take such acts; or to undertake the imposition of arbitrary restriction on or deprivation of fundamental freedoms in private or public life in peace time and during situations of armed conflicts or of war."
Gender Activists have to give attention to Article 4 of the Protocol in their review during the 16 Days of Activism in their evaluation of progress made since the coming into force of the Protocol in November 2005 and, especially, since its ratification by The Gambia in May this year. (See page 10).
The Government on its own part has to take cognisance of Article 26 of the Protocol which reads: "1.State Parties shall ensure the implementation of this Protocol at national level, and in their periodic reports submitted in accordance with Article 62 of the African Charter, indicate the legislative and other measures undertaken for the full realisation of the rights herein recognised."
"2. State Parties undertake to adopt all necessary measures and in particular shall provide budgetary and other resources for the full and effective implementation of the rights herein recognized."
"Integrate the protocol into the national law", that's the demand of the time.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No.104/2006, 27-28 November, 2006
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