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- 16 Days of Activism 2026: Ensure justice, protect survivors, end impunity
- About Our Work
- About RFLD and our programmes
- Académie francophone du RFLD
- Academia do RFLD: cursos online gratuitos sobre os direitos das mulheres em África
- Accessibility
- Africa Grant Portfolio
- Aide et questions : Suite de gestion RFLD
- Angola – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Annual reports and financials
- Appel d’Offres Projet GIZ BMZ
- AU
- AU MECHANISMS RFLD
- Benin – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Board & Leadership
- Burkina Faso – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Cameroun – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Cap Vert – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Careers
- Côte d’Ivoire – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- CEDAW and UPR review calendar for RFLD network countries
- Celebrating RFLD’s Members Work in Subsaharan Africa
- Civic Space – Human Rights
- Civic Tech
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- Climate Justice & Sustainable Agriculture
- Consortium for the promotion of human rights, civil liberties and media development in sub-Saharan Africa (CHARM AFRICA)
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- Country fact sheets: women’s rights in law and practice
- Country fact sheet: Benin
- Country fact sheet: Burkina Faso
- Country fact sheet: Cabo Verde
- Country fact sheet: Côte d’Ivoire
- Country fact sheet: Guinea
- Country fact sheet: Guinea-Bissau
- Country fact sheet: Mali
- Country fact sheet: Niger
- Country fact sheet: Senegal
- Country fact sheet: Togo
- Créer mon compte apprenant
- Create your learner account
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- Dakar ACHPR
- Decisions and enforcement: when courts rule on women’s rights in Africa
- Devenir membre du RFLD
- dismantling the Climate-Gender-Rights Nexus across West Africa
- Domestic Violence in Africa: Your Rights and Where to Find Help
- Donate to RFLD
- ECO
- ECONOMIC JUSTICE
- Economic Justice: our podcast series
- Empowering Women, Transforming Lives: Donate to RFLD
- End Malaria in Africa
- Ending FGM Africa
- Ending FGM Campaign
- Ending FGM in West Africa
- Ending FGM: our video series
- Espace membre RFLD
- Ezechiel Gangni Ahossou Sénégal
- FAQ
- Financement RFLD
- Gabon – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Gambie – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Get in Touch: RFLD Contact Information
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- Ghana
- Give from Europe
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- GivingTuesday 2026: end violence against African women
- Gouvernance Participative
- Governance Policies
- Governance, Civic Space & Protection
- Grants and Tenders for Women’s Organisations in Africa
- FAME project tenders
- Design and development of the “Gender and Ecological Transition” digital platform
- External audit of the FAME project accounts
- Facilitation of the coaching session and the two leadership and advocacy workshops
- Interactive programmes on community radios on the Land Code and the Code of Persons and the Family
- Mapping of local stakeholders and agroecological opportunities
- Participatory diagnostic study on women’s access to land and green financing in Benin
- Printing and visibility materials
- Translation into Fongbe and Nago of training, advocacy and radio materials
- Vehicle hire with driver and fuel for the local advocacy tours
- Venues, catering and audiovisual equipment for project events
- Yéego Jigéen tenders
- Independent consultancy for the selection and review of Yéego Jigéen sub-grants
- Monitoring, evaluation and evidence building for the Yéego Jigéen programme
- Supply of laptops for the RFLD Senegal office
- Training logistics and materials for the Yéego Jigéen capacity-building sessions
- Guinée – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- HARMFUL PRACTICES
- Health Systems in Africa
- Heuleche TOGNONMEGNI
- Human Rights Protection
- IGOLO APPEL
- Impact in Numbers
- Impact Initiatives to support
- Insights & Data
- Job RFLD Ghana
- Join Our Network and Be Part of the Movement for Gender Equality
- Key Projects
- LATEST NEWS
- Laws and policies we helped change
- Le RFLD franchit un nouveau cap stratégique : Kolawolé Adissa Franck OKPEICHA nommé Responsable Régional de l’Impact, de la Redevabilité et des Partenariats
- Leave a legacy for African women’s rights
- Legal Document
- Legal Equality for Women in Africa: Where the Law Stands
- Legislation in West Africa – RFLD’s Platform
- Libéria – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Mali – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Maputo Barometer
- MAPUTO PROTOCOL
- Media: RFLD at the 89th Session of the African Commission, Dakar
- Mentions légales et propriété intellectuelle de l’Académie francophone du RFLD
- Michel BOHOUMBO RFLD
- Mon espace RFLD
- NAFASI
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- Niger – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Nigeria
- Nigeria RFLD
- Organizational Resilience Program
- Our Achievements: Five Years of Impact
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- Plan Stratégique 2023 – 2028
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- Policy brief: Defending without being exposed. Protecting women human rights defenders in Africa
- Press & Media Kit
- Press Release – Mrs Dossi Sekonnou Gloria appointed as the new RFLD Africa CEO
- Press Room
- Privacy Policy
- Protection des Droits Humains
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- PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES
- République Centrafricaine – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- RDC – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Recrutement Sénégal
- Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition in West Africa
- Resources & Publications
- Beijing+25 Advocacy Document for Benin
- Benin Land and Property Code (Law No. 2013-01)
- Course: Advocacy Theory and Practice
- Course: Civic Space, Democracy and Digital Advocacy
- Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in Benin: Overview, Challenges and Outlook
- Legal Framework for the Rights of Women and Girls in West Africa (2023)
- Legal Toolkit: Cyber Harassment
- Lifting the Reservations: Nine Country Briefs on the Maputo Protocol (read online)
- Maputo Protocol Training Manual
- Maternal and Child Health in West Africa (2025)
- RFLD 2025 Annual Journal
- The Maputo Protocol in Niger (2022)
- Towards Justice and Healing: a collection of testimonies on gender-based violence
- RFLD & AmplifyChange
- RFLD – CALL FOR TENDER
- RFLD – STRATEGIC PLAN 2023 – 2028
- RFLD Academy alumni and mentors
- RFLD Academy: free online courses on women’s rights in Africa
- RFLD ACDEG HUB
- RFLD Africa
- RFLD and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- RFLD at 89th ACHPR Ordinary Session
- RFLD AU Mechanisms Hub
- RFLD CLIMATE ACTION
- RFLD COUNTRIES DATA CENTER
- RFLD COUNTRIES IMPACT
- RFLD Frequently Asked Questions
- RFLD Gender Accountability Hub (Standalone Microsite)
- RFLD GIZ BMZ
- About the initiative
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- RFLD in Nigeria
- RFLD in the News
- RFLD IN THE NEWS
- RFLD INTERNAL POLICIES
- RFLD Intership Program
- RFLD Members
- RFLD Newsletter, October 2026: A month to remember in Dakar
- RFLD Newsletters
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- RFLD Partners
- RFLD Partnership with GIZ
- RFLD PRAIA 2026
- RFLD REPORT
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- RFLD Suite de gestion
- RFLD Tracker Platform
- About the Tracker | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Advocacy calendar | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Afrofeminist lens | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Cite and licence | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Compare two countries | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Contributors | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Country profiles | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Algeria: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Angola: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Benin: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Botswana: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Burkina Faso: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Burundi: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Cabo Verde: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Cameroon: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Côte d’Ivoire: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Central African Republic: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Chad: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Comoros: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Djibouti: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Egypt: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Equatorial Guinea: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Eritrea: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Eswatini: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Ethiopia: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Gabon: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Ghana: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Guinea-Bissau: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Guinea: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Kenya: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Lesotho: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Liberia: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Libya: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Madagascar: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Malawi: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Mali: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Mauritania: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Mauritius: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Morocco: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Mozambique: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Namibia: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Niger: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Nigeria: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Republic of the Congo: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Rwanda: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Sahrawi Republic: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- São Tomé and Príncipe: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Senegal: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Seychelles: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Sierra Leone: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Somalia: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- South Africa: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- South Sudan: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Sudan: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Tanzania: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- The Gambia: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Togo: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Tunisia: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Uganda: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Zambia: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Zimbabwe: women in leadership | RFLD Tracker
- Dashboard | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Downloads | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Embed the Tracker | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Gender analysis | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Maputo Protocol | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Methods | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Policy brief | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Regions | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- RFLD data family | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Take action | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- The parity race | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Theory of change | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- What’s new | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Women icons of Africa | Women in Leadership Tracker for Africa
- Aïcha Koné (Côte d’Ivoire) | Women icons of Africa
- Akothee (Kenya) | Women icons of Africa
- Aline Sitoé Diatta (Senegal) | Women icons of Africa
- Aloisea Inyumba (Rwanda) | Women icons of Africa
- Aminata Dramane Traoré (Mali) | Women icons of Africa
- Aminata Touré (Senegal) | Women icons of Africa
- Amity Meria (Burkina Faso) | Women icons of Africa
- Angélique Kidjo (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Anne-Marie Nzié (Cameroon) | Women icons of Africa
- Aoua Kéita (Mali) | Women icons of Africa
- Aster Aweke (Ethiopia) | Women icons of Africa
- Awa Fall-Diop (Senegal) | Women icons of Africa
- Aya Chebbi (Tunisia) | Women icons of Africa
- Bchira Ben Mrad (Tunisia) | Women icons of Africa
- Bella Bellow (Togo) | Women icons of Africa
- Bibi Titi Mohamed (Tanzania) | Women icons of Africa
- Bochra Belhaj Hmida (Tunisia) | Women icons of Africa
- Carmen Pereira (Guinea-Bissau) | Women icons of Africa
- Catherine Samba-Panza (Central African Republic) | Women icons of Africa
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Cina Lawson (Togo) | Women icons of Africa
- Claudine Gbènagnon Talon (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Coumba Gawlo Seck (Senegal) | Women icons of Africa
- Diakhoumba Gassama (Senegal) | Women icons of Africa
- Djamila Bouhired (Algeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Doria Shafik (Egypt) | Women icons of Africa
- Dossi Sekonnou Gloria AGUEH (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia) | Women icons of Africa
- Empress Taytu Betul (Ethiopia) | Women icons of Africa
- Eulalia Envó Bela Boriko (Equatorial Guinea) | Women icons of Africa
- Fara Ndiaye (Senegal) | Women icons of Africa
- Fatoumata Tambajang (The Gambia) | Women icons of Africa
- Flore Djinou (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Nigeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Hadja Saran Daraba (Guinea) | Women icons of Africa
- Hana El-Gallal (Libya) | Women icons of Africa
- Hannah Tetteh (Ghana) | Women icons of Africa
- Hawa Aden Mohamed (Somalia) | Women icons of Africa
- Hawa Ahmed Youssouf (Djibouti) | Women icons of Africa
- Henriette Diabaté (Côte d’Ivoire) | Women icons of Africa
- Hinda Deby Itno (Chad) | Women icons of Africa
- Huguette Bokpè Gnacadja (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Isabelle Yacoubou (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Janira Hopffer Almada (Cabo Verde) | Women icons of Africa
- Joséphine Bongo (Gabon) | Women icons of Africa
- Julienne Lusenge (Democratic Republic of the Congo) | Women icons of Africa
- Kah Walla (Cameroon) | Women icons of Africa
- Knowless Butera (Rwanda) | Women icons of Africa
- Lalla Fatma N’Soumer (Algeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Latifa Arfaoui (Tunisia) | Women icons of Africa
- Leymah Gbowee (Liberia) | Women icons of Africa
- M’Balia Camara (Guinea) | Women icons of Africa
- Madam Yoko (Sierra Leone) | Women icons of Africa
- Marguerite Barankitse (Burundi) | Women icons of Africa
- Maria do Carmo Silveira (São Tomé and Príncipe) | Women icons of Africa
- Mariam Chabi Talata (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Mariam Sankara (Burkina Faso) | Women icons of Africa
- Mariama Bâ (Senegal) | Women icons of Africa
- Marie Koré (Côte d’Ivoire) | Women icons of Africa
- Marie-Élise Gbèdo (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Martha Karua (Kenya) | Women icons of Africa
- Mbali Khumalo (South Africa) | Women icons of Africa
- Mireille Rabenoro (Madagascar) | Women icons of Africa
- Nana Asantewa Afadzinu (Ghana) | Women icons of Africa
- Nana Benz (Togo) | Women icons of Africa
- Nathalie Villette-Wadagni (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt) | Women icons of Africa
- Neema Iyer (Uganda) | Women icons of Africa
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Omolara Balogun (Nigeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Oumou Sangaré (Mali) | Women icons of Africa
- Princess Rasoherina (Madagascar) | Women icons of Africa
- Rema Namakula (Uganda) | Women icons of Africa
- Rokia Traoré (Mali) | Women icons of Africa
- Sahle-Work Zewde (Ethiopia) | Women icons of Africa
- Samia Suluhu Hassan (Tanzania) | Women icons of Africa
- Sarraounia Mangou (Niger) | Women icons of Africa
- Sayon Bamba Camara (Guinea) | Women icons of Africa
- Sika Kaboré (Burkina Faso) | Women icons of Africa
- Sister Deborah (Ghana) | Women icons of Africa
- Sitti Kassim (Comoros) | Women icons of Africa
- Souad Massi (Algeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Stella Nyanzi (Uganda) | Women icons of Africa
- Tata Ajaché (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- Tems (Nigeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Tiwa Savage (Nigeria) | Women icons of Africa
- Umm Kulthum (Egypt) | Women icons of Africa
- Wambui Otieno (Kenya) | Women icons of Africa
- Wangari Maathai (Kenya) | Women icons of Africa
- Winnie Byanyima (Uganda) | Women icons of Africa
- Worku Zewde (Eritrea) | Women icons of Africa
- Yaa Asantewaa (Ghana) | Women icons of Africa
- Zainab Bangura (Sierra Leone) | Women icons of Africa
- Zeynab Abib (Benin) | Women icons of Africa
- RFLD Video Library
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- RFLD: Experience in Gender Justice and Human Rights in Francophone Africa
- RFLD’s Identity
- Rights & Representation
- SAFE
- Senegal – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Sex Trafficking in Africa: How to Recognise It and Protect Women and Girls
- Sexual Violence in Africa: Rights, Justice and Support for Survivors
- Sierra Leone – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Subscribe
- Subventions Yéego Jigéen
- Survivor Support Toolkit
- Survivors stories
- Tchad – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Terms of Service
- THE AFRICAN DIGITAL SAFETY COMPENDIUM
- The Brave Program
- The Maputo Protocol in your language
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- The Opportunity
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- Togo – Découvrez Les Lois qui protègent les femmes (Une Plateforme créée par le RFLD)
- Track Gender Accountability in Africa with RFLD Data Hub
- Vidéos de formation : Suite de gestion RFLD
- Voices · #IamRFLD
- WAFFF FUND
- Water and Gender: our video series
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- West Africa Data Summit
- West Africa Legislative Platform
- West Africa women’s rights legal scorecard 2026: 15 countries, seven questions
- Where We Work
- Women’s Rights Laws by Country
- Algeria: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Angola: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Benin: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Botswana: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Burkina Faso: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Burundi: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Cabo Verde: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Cameroon: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Côte d’Ivoire: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Central African Republic: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Chad: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Comoros: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Djibouti: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Egypt: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Equatorial Guinea: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Eritrea: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Eswatini: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Ethiopia: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Gabon: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Ghana: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Guinea-Bissau: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Guinea: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Kenya: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Lesotho: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Liberia: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Libya: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Madagascar: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Malawi: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Mali: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Mauritania: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Mauritius: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Morocco: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Mozambique: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Namibia: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Niger: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Nigeria: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Republic of the Congo: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Rwanda: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: women’s rights and civic space laws
- São Tomé and Príncipe: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Senegal: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Seychelles: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Sierra Leone: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Somalia: women’s rights and civic space laws
- South Africa: women’s rights and civic space laws
- South Sudan: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Sudan: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Tanzania: women’s rights and civic space laws
- The Gambia: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Togo: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Tunisia: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Uganda: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Zambia: women’s rights and civic space laws
- Zimbabwe: women’s rights and civic space laws
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- Protection from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment: how RFLD puts survivors first across its network 26 Oct 2026
- RFLD at the Abuja regional conference on electoral integrity for women and young women in West Africa 23 Oct 2026
- Nine States, nine asks: where each Maputo Protocol reservation stands 22 Oct 2026
- Laws on paper, rights in practice: what our West Africa legal review found 22 Oct 2026
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- RFLD welcomes Erin Bresnahan of AvoMotion as Data Evaluation Lead 20 Oct 2026
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- Two Special Rapporteurs, one week in Dakar: how RFLD carried women’s voices to the African Commission 19 Oct 2026
- RFLD at the APN Assembly 2026 in Accra: a delegation of ten and a francophone voice for African philanthropy 19 Oct 2026
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- The Maputo Barometer 2027 will be published on 11 July: why the date, what it measures, how to contribute 18 Oct 2026
- What the law says in Senegal on violence, land and the family 18 Oct 2026
- Alternative reports to the African Commission: how members can contribute 18 Oct 2026
- Funding feminist movements in francophone West Africa: three findings 18 Oct 2026
- Conakry seminar: advancing indigenous women’s land rights and feminist leadership in Guinea 18 Oct 2026
- Yéego Jigéen: RFLD opens a new grants programme for grassroots women’s organisations in Senegal 18 Oct 2026
- Towards an African regional framework against technology-facilitated gender-based violence: RFLD and the Vance Center in Dakar 17 Oct 2026
- 40 years of the African Charter: RFLD statement on African Human Rights Day 15 Oct 2026
- RFLD and Benin’s INF meet Senegal’s Ministry of Family to share lessons on protecting women 15 Oct 2026
- RFLD and Benin’s INF visit the Association des Juristes Sénégalaises to learn from its law shops 15 Oct 2026
- SEA-T Programme Director Konstanze Ricken visits RFLD’s office in Dakar 14 Oct 2026
- Senegal’s Minister of Justice receives RFLD and Benin’s Institut National de la Femme 14 Oct 2026
- A sentinel for women and girls: Benin’s Institut National de la Femme and RFLD at the 89th Session of the African Commission 14 Oct 2026
- RFLD oral statement at the 89th Ordinary Session of the African Commission 13 Oct 2026
- Technology-facilitated gender-based violence and human rights: what the Expertise France dialogue in Dakar discussed 13 Oct 2026
- Defending without being exposed: what the panel on women human rights defenders at the 89th Session of the African Commission discussed 13 Oct 2026
- From stories to evidence: what RFLD’s Gender Mainstreaming Tool session in Dakar produced 11 Oct 2026
- Financing Water and Sanitation in Africa: Resilience, Reuse, Ecosystems, Decentralised Services and Water Diplomacy 9 Oct 2026
- RFLD at the WLICT National Consultation on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Abuja 9 Oct 2026
- NGOs Forum: an Afrofeminist reading of shrinking civic space in Africa, RFLD panel with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women 8 Oct 2026
- NGOs Forum: the situation of human rights and democracy in Africa, region by region 8 Oct 2026
- “The woman who fetches water belongs”: RFLD’s statement at the opening of the NGOs Forum in Dakar 8 Oct 2026
- RFLD at the 89th Session of the African Commission: our programme in Dakar 7 Oct 2026
- RFLD at the Lawyers Without Borders regional workshop in Dakar: protecting women defenders from digital violence 7 Oct 2026
- From stories to evidence: RFLD grounds the Gender Mainstreaming Tool in Dakar 7 Oct 2026
- Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa joins RFLD panel on civic space at the NGOs Forum 7 Oct 2026
- Who is shaping development’s next era? The new power map as aid falls 6 Oct 2026
- Why technology-facilitated violence against women is a human rights issue 6 Oct 2026
- Corporate accountability in Africa: RFLD joins ACCA regional dialogue in Dakar 6 Oct 2026
- A management system on every desk: why RFLD built the RFLD Management Suite 5.0 6 Oct 2026
- Women’s rights laws now mapped in all 55 African Union member states 6 Oct 2026
- Online violence against women in West and Central Africa: your questions 6 Oct 2026
- Civil society, the media and the African Commission: a plan for action 6 Oct 2026
- Funding the response to online violence: what funders can do 6 Oct 2026
- Seven things governments in the region can do about online violence 6 Oct 2026
- What works: good practices against online violence in the region 6 Oct 2026
- Responding to online violence: a survivor-centred guide in six steps 6 Oct 2026
- Platforms, AI and African languages: the moderation gap 6 Oct 2026
- Rising complaints, missing data: what police figures tell us 6 Oct 2026
- Ghana’s Cybersecurity Act: a regional model for protecting women online 6 Oct 2026
- Data protection authorities: an overlooked ally against online abuse 6 Oct 2026
- Francophone West and Central Africa: filling the gaps in the law 6 Oct 2026
- Only three states in the region criminalise sharing intimate images 6 Oct 2026
- Malabo, Budapest and ECOWAS: the region’s cybercrime treaties and women 6 Oct 2026
- AU Convention on ending violence against women: no ratifications yet 6 Oct 2026
- Resolution 591: Africa’s study on digital violence must count our region 6 Oct 2026
- ACHPR Resolution 522 explained: Africa’s standard on digital violence 6 Oct 2026
- Girls and young women online: early exposure to abuse 6 Oct 2026
- The hidden costs of online violence for women’s health and income 6 Oct 2026
- Women journalists in the region: when online abuse becomes physical 6 Oct 2026
- Women in politics face online abuse that grows with their influence 6 Oct 2026
- Who is online? Connectivity and the male digital public sphere 6 Oct 2026
- Four myths about online violence against women, and what the data shows 6 Oct 2026
- What is technology-facilitated gender-based violence? A glossary 6 Oct 2026
- Key findings: online violence against women in West and Central Africa 6 Oct 2026
- Online violence in West and Central Africa: a region left uncounted 6 Oct 2026
- Women and water: the advocacy calendar for 2026 to 2028 6 Oct 2026
- Women and water in Africa: six myths and the facts 6 Oct 2026
- Shadow reporting on Article 15: a checklist for civil society 6 Oct 2026
- The right to water in law: a guide beyond the Maputo Protocol 6 Oct 2026
- Seven steps States can take on women and water 6 Oct 2026
- From treaty to tap: five gaps in implementing Article 15 6 Oct 2026
- Follow the money: financing water for women in Africa 6 Oct 2026
- Women in water governance: the case for a 40% quota 6 Oct 2026
- Climate change and women’s access to water in Africa 6 Oct 2026
- The AU’s year of water: reading Water Vision 2063 with Article 15 6 Oct 2026
- Resolution 658: two years to shape sanitation guidelines for women 6 Oct 2026
- The African Commission’s standards on women and the right to water 6 Oct 2026
- Cameroon: a water compact and a law reform to shape for women 6 Oct 2026
- Niger: why ratifying the Maputo Protocol matters for water 6 Oct 2026
- Nigeria: gender policies on paper, few women in water decisions 6 Oct 2026
- Ghana: strong averages, deep gaps in women’s access to water 6 Oct 2026
- Benin: a right to water in law, and a gap for women 6 Oct 2026
- Senegal: a new Water Code and a chance to put women first 6 Oct 2026
- Water in schools: why menstrual health is a rights issue 6 Oct 2026
- Violence at the water point: making access safe for women 6 Oct 2026
- Safe drinking water in West and Central Africa: the 2024 figures 6 Oct 2026
- 250 million hours a day: the time women spend fetching water 6 Oct 2026
- Who fetches water in Africa? What the data show 6 Oct 2026
- Article 15 of the Maputo Protocol explained 6 Oct 2026
- Why water is a women’s rights issue in Africa 6 Oct 2026
- Working with the Special Rapporteur on women’s rights, now and next 6 Oct 2026
- Running a shadow reporting workshop with RFLD’s manual 6 Oct 2026
- Do shadow reports change anything? Lessons from African cases 6 Oct 2026
- General Comments: the Commission’s own guide to the Maputo Protocol 6 Oct 2026
- Using shadow reports to challenge reservations to the Maputo Protocol 6 Oct 2026
- Reusing Maputo Protocol evidence for CEDAW and the UPR 6 Oct 2026
- The reporting gap in numbers: who reports on the Maputo Protocol? 6 Oct 2026
- When States stay silent: the Commission’s proactive approach 6 Oct 2026
- After the session: turning concluding observations into change 6 Oct 2026
- How to deliver an oral statement at the African Commission 6 Oct 2026
- Advocacy around an African Commission session: a practical guide 6 Oct 2026
- Observer and affiliate status at the African Commission explained 6 Oct 2026
- Suggesting questions Commissioners can put to a State delegation 6 Oct 2026
- Writing SMART recommendations the African Commission can adopt 6 Oct 2026
- Protecting shadow reporters from reprisals at the African Commission 6 Oct 2026
- Do no harm: ethics and informed consent in shadow reporting 6 Oct 2026
- The two-source rule: building evidence the Commission can trust 6 Oct 2026
- From law on paper to change in women’s lives: testing State claims 6 Oct 2026
- Why coalition shadow reports carry more weight 6 Oct 2026
- Four questions to ask before writing a shadow report 6 Oct 2026
- 15 pages: the African Commission’s format rules for shadow reports 6 Oct 2026
- The 30-day rule: timing a shadow report for the African Commission 6 Oct 2026
- Article 26 explained: the duty to report on women’s rights in Africa 6 Oct 2026
- Three Maputo Protocol reports before the African Commission in Dakar 6 Oct 2026
- A new RFLD manual for shadow reports on the Maputo Protocol 6 Oct 2026