Should women in Africa celebrate Africa Day?

The Wits School of Governance in partnership with the Thabo Mbeki Foundation hosts a dialogue on the rights of women in peace and security in Africa.

The question of the rights of women is pertinent in 2016, considering lack of progress despite a range of policy interventions (including The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol).

Women bear the brunt of exploitation under conditions of fragility, war and conflict, poverty and underdevelopment, and abusive cultural practices.

Their voices are also excluded from the development agenda in terms of planning and implementation policies that affect them.

Speakers will consider the rights of women in peace and security in Africa and address, amongst others, the AU mechanisms in place to protect women in times of distress and in need of dignity and recovery of abuse.

Panellists:

• Former President Thabo Mbeki
• Judge Barney Afako
• Emmanuelle Makendi
• Dr Angelina Kithatu-Kiwekete

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