Uganda becomes the 28th State Party to the Maputo Protocol!
By FIDH on Friday 23 July 2010, 17:18 - RATIFY! / RATIFIER! - Permalink
The Coalition of the Campaign welcomes the ratification by Uganda of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), on July 22, 2010. In acceding to this instrument, the Ugandan authorities have formally committed to promote and protect the rights of women guaranteed by this Protocol. In accordance with the provisions of this Protocol, the Ugandan authorities committed to take all necessary measures, including by adopting an adequate legislative framework, to fight against all forms of discrimination against women, ensure their rights to dignity, life, safety, health, access to justice, education, participate in political processes or their social and economic rights.
The Coalition of the campaign recalls that although several laws have been recently enacted by the Ugandan authorities to improve the situation of women, their implementation continues to be hindered by the persistence of deeply entenched traditions and patriarchal attitudes, especially in rural areas. The Coalition calls on Uganda to organize as soon as possible raise-awareness campaigns on the provisions of the Maputo Protocol, also directed to those responsible for law enforcement.
The Coalition of the Campaign Africa for Women's Rights: Ratify and Respect struggle for African states to ratify, without reservations, the international and regional instruments for the protection of women's rights and for them to respect their commitments. Since the launch of the campaign in 2009, 3 States have ratified the Maputo Protocol - the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Cameroon and Uganda, bringing to 28 the number of African Union (AU) member states parties to the Protocol - and 2 States have ratified the Protocol to the CEDAW - Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea - bringing to 19 the number of AU member States Parties to this Protocol.
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It is a step a head for Uganda to ratify and respect the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. However, what still needs to be taken seriously is the manner through which these rights shall be promoted and protected. Many international laws, call it treaties and conventions concerning women and children have gone an noticed and thus losing their efficacy. These have been due to inadequate knowledge and information availability about the treaties, limited programme activities to supplement their promotion and protection, weak structures and leaderships, skilled human resources and the contemporary debate about domestic state interests visa vie international agendas. All that is needed is to bring women on the forefront by availing them with the necessary information and this can be done through existing women structures and education. If not, the advancement of the Maputo Protocal will still be a myth. In Uganda many approaches to uplifting women causes have failled in a number of ways. Recently, the incidences of women who are peacefully demonstrating being tortured and beaten by state agencies, pregnant women and mothers in district like Palisa in Eastern Uganda failing to have access to health services. All that can be taken from this that Africa as a whole have good policy documents, however, they are silent and have not been of any help to the citizenry. We need to change the rend and the time is now
This is great news. Uganda has done the rights thing. This means that the government is deeply concerned about the welfarism of its people most especially the women. I hope other countries would follow suit
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