Ethiopia signs protocol

Almost a year after its adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa on July 11 2003, Maputo Mozambique, The Republic of Ethiopia on June 2, 2004 signed the protocol. Twenty-seven other member states have signed it but are yet to ratify it as at June 7, 2004 . 14 more countries must ratify it in order for the Protocol to come into force.