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What can happen to a woman when her husband dies?. 📌Forced removal from land/home.📌Children taken away .📌Forced to marriage.📌Rape in “cleansing sex”.📌Forced into confinement.📌Forced to drink water used to cleanse husband’s corpse. #WidowRights.#RatifyTheMaputoProtocol
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The biggest stragglers in #Africa in enshrining #equality of men and women in all aspects of the law are:.#Sudan.#GuineaBissau.#Mauritania.#SouthSudan.#RepublicCongo. How about #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol & #ImplementTheMaputoProtocol ? #MaputoMonday
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What does #AccesstoJustice mean in practice? #TheMaputoProtocol guides gov’ts to focus on these 5 areas to better protect women under the law. #MaputoMonday #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol #ImplementTheMaputoProtocol
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#TheMaputoProtocol calls on States Parties to ensure women can access justice .#AccesstoJustice #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol.#MaputoAnniversary.@SOAWR@FemnetProg
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Barriers to #widows rights:. ♂️Patriarchal societies with #genderinequality.🏡Lack of #land & property #inheritance.📜Lack of laws for their rights.⚖️Slow & expensive legal processes.⚕️Physical & mental health issues caused by widow rites. #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol.#WidowsRights
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Barriers to #widowsRights:. ♂️Patriarchal societies with gender inequality.🏡Lack of land & property inheritance.📜Lack of laws for their rights.⚖️Slow & expensive legal processes.⚕️Physical & mental health issues caused by widow rites. #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol.@SOAWR
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Women face #discrimination when their husbands die, something men don’t face when their wives die. #EndDiscrimination against #widows & #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol .#ImplementArticle20 .#WidowsRights .#MaputoMonday
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“Land under customary tenure is exempt from gender equitable #inheritancelaws in 15 countries” That's out of 48 countries that guarantee #genderequality in their national constitutions.See why laws are meaningless until implemented? .#RatifyTheMaputoProtocol.#InheritanceRights
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We call on Botswana, Burundi, CAR, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somalia, SouthSudan, Sudan to urgently #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol. We further urge those who have ratified to #ImplementTheMaputoProtocol .@SOAWR @equalitynow
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In #Africa 🌍, women—as well as children—are the most disproportionately affected and often ignored victims and targets of violence during #armedconflict . #RatifytheMaputoProtocol.#ImplementTheMaputoProtocol.#Maputoat18
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Women face discrimination when their husbands die, something men don’t face when their wives dies. End #discrimination against #women & #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol. #MaputoAnniversary .@SOAWR @FemnetProg
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Barriers to #widows rights:. ♂️Patriarchal societies with gender inequality.🏡Lack of land & property inheritance.📜Lack of laws for their rights.⚖️Slow & expensive legal processes.⚕️Physical & mental health issues caused by widow rites. #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol.@awdf01
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The #MaputoProtocol is a ground-breaking women’s rights legal provision in Africa. Engage with us this month for #MaputoMonday as we discuss #Article12 #RightToEducationAndTraining. #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol .#ImplementTheMaputoProtocol .@MaputoProtocol
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Without proper implementation of laws promoting gender equality, women’s rights in #Africa 🌍 will continue to be ignored . #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol.#ImplementTheMaputoProtocol .
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Underrepresentation in political spaces - parliaments, local governance - remain largely due to multiple barriers. Unless these are addressed the right to full political participation remains a distant dream. #womeninpolitics.#RatifyTheMaputoProtocol #ImplementTheMaputoProtocol
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It’s necessary to look at the reasons harmful widow rituals occur to accurately address them:. ♂️Patriarchal norms discouraging gender equality.🧙Prevalence of witchcraft.⚖️Weakly implemented laws. #ImplementTheMaputoProtocol.#RatifyTheMaputoProtocol.#MaputoMonday . @SOAWR
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Only 4 #African countries with high percentage of women in the parliament. While in majority states, women’s.representation is well below 40% mark. For more read: #RatifyTheMaputoProtocol #ImplementTheMaputoProtocol.#MaputoAt18
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Our Clarion call and support is to the 13 @_AfricanUnion Member States yet to ratify the #MaputoProtocol: . Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.
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#RatifyTheMaputoProtocol Time's up!!!.
‼️Calling on Botswana, Egypt, Morocco, Burundi, Central African Rep., Chad, Eritrea, Madagascar, Niger, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somalia, South Sudan & Sudan‼️.SOAWR is urgently petitioning these governments to accede to the #MaputoProtocol. 👉🏿
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