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From the communication director
TRIPOLI,
June 28th 2009
At the 14th Pre-Summit Consultative Meeting
on Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union that was held at
“Women are often victims of traditions that prohibit
them from accessing property even though they are largely responsible for
feeding children throughout the continent”, said Mrs. Soyata Maiga,
(Special Reporter on the rights of women in Africa for the African Commission
on Human and Peoples’ Rights) in calling for a ratification of the additional
protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the rights on
women in Africa.
“Even though women produce 60% to 80% of the food
consumed in Africa, they suffer more hunger and malnutrition, and are
marginalized when it comes to land control.” This point was underlined
by the women’s organisations that took part in the
Women have also
called all African Women’s organisations for the mobilisation of all resources
needed for a second Summit of Heads of State and Government on Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union to happen
in 2010.
In addressing Peace
and security in Africa, women have reiterated the need to implement the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality
in Africa as a the best solution, and called for States to put into action the
national plans on the 1325 and 1820 Resolutions of the UN Security Council which followed the Monrovia Call to Action on
March 9th 2009 by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
It should be noted that
only 35 countries of the 53 signatories have submitted their report on the
implementation the Solemn Declaration
on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA) between January 2007 and now. Less
then 30 countries have ratified the Protocol on Women’s rights in
The
meeting was coordinated by Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), and organized by the
GIMAC network, which is composed of more than 40 African women’s organisations who work in partnership with the Libyan Ministry of
Social Affairs, the National Organisation for Libyan Youth, and the Maghreb
Mother’s Association, on the Implementation of the Solemn Declaration signed by
the Heads of State and Government in July 2004.
The ‘Gender is my Agenda’ network has a consultative
meeting every six months on the margins of the Summit Meeting of Heads of State
and Government of the African Union (AU). This meeting in
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