- The African Union’ key normative frameworks define the campaign to end child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM), and other harmful practices in Africa. Here is a list of some of these frameworks
- The African Union Accountability Framework on the Elimination of Harmful Practices: This framework was developed in 2022 and aims to hold African Union member states accountable for eliminating harmful practices, including FGM.
- The Maputo Protocol: This protocol is an African Union legal instrument that seeks to promote and protect the rights of women in Africa, including the elimination of harmful practices such as FGM and child marriage.
- The Agenda 2063: This is a strategic framework for the socio-economic transformation of Africa over the next 50 years. It includes a priority (6.1.2) to eliminate within this generation “all harmful social norms and customary practices against women and girls and those that promote violence”
- The Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: This committee is a specialized body of the African Union responsible for promoting and protecting the rights of children in Africa, including the elimination of harmful practices such as FGM and child marriage.
- The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The SDGs include a target (5.3) to eliminate all harmful practices, such as child marriage and FGM, by 2030
- The African Youth Charter: This charter includes an article (article 8) that calls for the elimination of child marriage and other harmful practices affecting women and girls.
- The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development: This protocol includes an article (article 8) that calls for the elimination of child marriage and other harmful practices affecting women and girls.
- The Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): This convention is an international framework adopted to end child marriage and harmful practices.
- The Convention on the Rights of the Child: This convention is an international framework adopted to end child marriage and harmful practices
- The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: This convention is an international framework adopted to end harmful practices
- The UN’s 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action: This is an international framework adopted to end harmful practices
- The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and its Protocol on the Rights of Women
- Maputo Protocol; the Maputo Plan of Action on the Operationalisation of the Continental Framework on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights;
- The Addis Ababa Declaration on Population and Development;
- The Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa;
- The Ouagadougou Call to Action on Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation of 2018
- The Cairo Call to Action on Ending Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation of 2019;
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