Mozambique: Protocol on women’s rights ratified

Mozambique has deposited its instrument of ratification of the protocol on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa with the African Union on 30th December 2005. Mozambique is the 17th state that ratified the protocol (January 18). Burkina Faso and Guinea in West Africa will very shortly deposit their ratification instrument as their parliaments have respectively authorised it.