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Grace, Tenacity, and Eloquence: The Struggle for W

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The book "Grace, Tenacity, and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Africa," affirms the common perception that women in Africa face deep challenges. Some of these challenges include: being the main victims of violence in conflicts, death due to pregnancy and childbirth, being three times more likely to contract HIV/AIDS than men, and enduring female genital mutilation in rates higher than anywhere else in the world.

African leaders created a comprehensive legal framework to address these issues: The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. The protocol, however, was not promptly ratified. This prompted the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights to organize a campaign that led to the passage of the protocol.

 

The book "gathers together articles about that campaign which have appeared in the prize-winning weekly electronic newsletter, Pambazuka News, published by Fahamu,"(cited in: Grace, Tenacity, and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Africa) with the intent "to provide students, activists and others with an easy to read introduction to the struggle for women’s rights in Africa." (cited in: Grace, Tenacity, and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Africa).

Compiled from: “Grace, Tenacity, and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Africa,” Fahamu, 7 July 2007.

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For more information, please visit the Global Gender Issues, and International Law and Women's Human Rights sections of this website.

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