Protect Maputo Protocol to resist anti-rights pushbacks & advance gender equality & right to health

Watch yet another important SHE & Rights session against the regressive draft ‘African Charter on family, sovereignty and values.’ This draft charter threatens to undermine progress made on gender equality and right to health in the African continent. This draft charter is yet another attack on sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice as well as bodily autonomy and human rights. It ‘urges’ African governments to withdraw from progressive and rights- and evidence-based agreements including the historic and legally binding Maputo Protocol (2003) which has been playing a defining role in promoting gender equality and protecting reproductive and health rights of women and girls in Africa. Among growing global anti-rights and anti-gender backlash, this draft charter is an additional assault which is attempting to backslide progress made on gender equality and right to health – both of which are indivisible fundamental human rights. S P E A K E R S ★ Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right To Health (video message) ★ Sibusisiwe Ndlela, human rights lawyer; Attorney, High Court of South Africa; and Countering Anti-Rights Actors (CARA) Managing Lawyer, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) ★ Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, South African legal practitioner practising as an advocate (barrister); member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates ★ Famia Nkansa, Communications Lead, Purposeful (We Are Purposeful, Sierra Leone) ★ Dr Pam Rajput, Professor Emeritus, Panjab University; former Chairperson of Government of India's High-Level Committee on the Status of Women ★ Shobha Shukla, SHE & Rights Host & Coordinator; and CNS Executive Director Thanks SHE & Rights team and partners #MaputoProtocol #Maputo #Africa #GenderEquality #GenderJustice #RighttoHealth #HumanRights #SDG5 #SDG3