The Maputo Protocol The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) remains one of the most progressive legal instruments providing a comprehensive set of human rights for African women. Unlike any other women’s human rights instrument, it details wide-ranging and substantive human rights for women covering the entire spectrum of civil and political, economic, social and cultural as well as environmental rights. It would not be incorrect to name it the African Bill of Rights of Women’s Human Rights. Date of Adoption: July 01, 2003 Date of last signature: September 17, 2019 Date entry into force: November 25, 2005   Treaty Text:  Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (English) Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (French) Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Portuguese)   Status List:  Status list (English)  

  IPPF Africa Region Quarterly Newsletter, January - March 2023. Click on the image above to read.

In order to complete the year 2022, the youths of the YAM have set themselves the goal of producing a magazine called “YA” magazine. By creating it, young people from French, Portuguese and English-speaking Africa wanted to assert themselves through their various actions. “YA” Magazine is a new formula for the commitment of young Africans to sexual and reproductive health. It is also a way of presenting what young people are doing. “YA” is not just short for Youth Action Movement. “YA” is also a way of saying “Yes we work, yes we can. A way of proclaiming loudly that the YAM is doing, the YAM is working. Click on the below image to download read the magazine.  

The IPPF Sex Work Policy makes clear the position and commitments of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) with regards to sex work. This is the first time IPPF has taken a position on sex work, and presents human rights-based values and principles which apply broadly to all contexts, without being prescriptive about approaches or actions. It aims to provide a framework to guide IPPF’s programming, service delivery and advocacy, and is based on sex workers’ lived experiences in all their diversity. It is rooted in positions taken by sex worker-led organizations and networks across the world, and in documents that IPPF has discussed and published in the last few years, particularly Sexual Rights: An IPPF declaration Member Associations (MAs) of IPPF are encouraged to use the policy as guidance to be integrated into their commitment to respect, protect and advance the rights of sex workers throughout their activities, advocacy and policies, as relevant to their strategic goals and national contexts. 

Quarterly Newsletter, April - June 2022. Click on the image above to read.      

The Hear Our Roar is the go-to source for updates on the latest activities and accomplishments of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Africa Region. Click the below links to read the different publications: January to March 2022 April to June July to September 2022 October to December 2022