{"id":64827,"date":"2014-01-26T00:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=64827"},"modified":"2014-01-26T00:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T00:57:11","slug":"journalists-enlightened-on-the-african-charter-to-human-and-peoples-rights-on-the-rights-of-women-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=64827","title":{"rendered":"Journalists enlightened on the African Charter to Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights on the Rights of women in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Addis Ababa, 23 January 2014 &#8211;<\/b>\u00a0 The Director of Women, Gender and Development of the African Union,\u00a0 Mrs. Litha Musyimi-Ogana, held a press conference on 22 January\u00a0 2014 at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, within the framework of the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> African Union Summit, holding from 21 \u2013 31 January 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs. Ogana Presented the status of ratification of the protocol of the African Charter of Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights on the Rights of women in Africa. She said within the timeframe of ten years 36 member states have ratified the protocol .She encouraged countries who have not yet signed to do so accordingly, while acknowledging at the press conference that member states have done their part beyond commitment in ratifying the protocol. \u201cNow we are moving to the implementation phase of the protocol and so far 10 member states have expressed their interest\u201d. These countries, she said will be given training and accessed on the status of implementation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs. Litha also added that, the member states are expected to report on their progress to the Commission. \u201cIn this regard Malawi is the only country which has submitted its report so far\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa, 23 January 2014 &#8211;\u00a0 The Director of Women, Gender and Development of the African Union,\u00a0 Mrs. Litha Musyimi-Ogana, held a press conference on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":64828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751],"tags":[17927,17928],"class_list":["post-64827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","tag-african-charter-to-human-and-peoples-rights","tag-rights-of-women-in-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}