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Article: "Text now for women's rights": Africa mobile phone users rally for women's rights/Declaration sur les droits de la femme: les utilisateurs du telephone mobile en Afrique se mobilisent en faveur des droits de la femme.
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- Our Rights
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Contrary to the opinion that Africa has yet to take advantage of the information technology explosion, a growing constituency of mobile phone users, in Africa is being mobilised to send text messages in support of a petition for women's rights in Africa. Mobile phone users across the world can now send SMSs (Short Message Service/text messages) from their mobile phones to sign an online petition in support of a campaign urging African governments to ratify the African Union's Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time that SMS technologies will have been used on a mass scale on the African continent in support of human ...