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Article: The Optional Protocol on African Women's Human Rights does if protect our rights?
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- Femnet News
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- January 1, 2002
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The World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna, Austria in 1993 was notable for the advances it made in human rights theory and practice with respect to women's human rights. These advances include the recognition that human rights as traditionally understood can be (and are) violated in gender-specific ways and the recognition that human rights violations for which the state is responsible also take place within the private sphere--that violence against women is itself a human rights violation. Thus the slogan that emerged from Vienna: women's rights are human rights. Commendably, following almost directly on from Vienna, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' ...