Breathing Life into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa

Acknowledgements
Preface
Professor Alpha Oumar Konaré
Abbreviations
PART ONE: CONTEXT FOR THE RATIFICATION OF THE PROTOCOL
Introduction
General situation of women in Africa
Karoline Kemp
Instruments on women's rights
Rita Anyumba
PART TWO: THE PROTOCOL COMES INTO FORCE
African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa:
the SOAWR campaign
Faiza Jama Mohamed
Provisions of the Protocol
Roselynn Musa
PART THREE: BREATHING LIFE INTO THE PROTOCOL:
CHALLENGES FOR IMPLEMENTATION
Domesticating the Protocol
Sarah Mukasa
Institutionalising strategies for the Protocol
Mary Wandia
Financing the Protocol: considerations for influencing
budgets from experiences in Tanzania
Mary Rusimbi
Integrating the Protocol and regional instruments: the case of SADC
Loga Virahsawmy and Rotimi Sankore
Harmonising the Protocol with national legal systems
Ibrahima Kane
Strategic litigation: a tool for domesticating the Protocol?
Sibongile Ndashe
The case for alternative dispute resolution and negotiation as
strategies for domestication of international human rights instruments
Anne Atieno Amadi
PART FOUR: THE PROTOCOL AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
FOR WOMEN IN CONFLICT AND WITH HIV/AIDS
Applying the Protocol to women in conflict situations
Amie Joof-Cole
HIV/AIDS – a challenge to successful implementation
Elize Delport
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: The members of the Solidarity for African
Women's Rights coalition
Appendix 2: List of conference participants
Appendix 3: Countries which have ratified the AU Protocol
on the Rights of Women in Africa