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A variety of international conventions and policy documents address violence against women and girls. These documents can be powerful advocacy and program tools in GBV prevention.
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African (Banjul) Charter on Human and People's Rights
1981 Declaration on Human and People's Rights
Organization of African Unity [view]
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995 [view]
Charter of Feminist Principles, African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
The African Feminist Forum took place from 15th -19th November 2006 in Accra, Ghana. The meeting brought together over 100 feminist activists from all over the region and the diaspora. This Charter lays out feminist principles agreed on and vision for the feminist movement in Africa. [link to document]
Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women
United Nations General Assembly Resolution, 1981 [view]
Convention on the Rights of the Child
The 1990 United Nations Convention on Children’s Rights
United Nations [view]
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
The United Nations 1993 Convention on Eliminating Violence against Women
United Nations [view]
Montréal Declaration: People's Right to Safety
Declaration of the 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control
Held in Montréal, Canada in 2002 [view]
Harare Declaration on the Prevention of Violence Against SADC Women and Children, 1998
SADC Women's Parliamentary Network [view]
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The founding document of human rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948
United Nations [view]
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
Organization of African Unity [view] |
