Women in traditional communities all across the world face a lot of challenges when it comes to gender-based violence and equality. The African Women’s Protocol is more than just a mere supplement to the African Charter. In key areas of women’s human rights, it articulates rights and duties that are of primary and contemporary relevance to redressing gender inequality in the African region.
More specifically, in the sexual and reproductive health sphere, WA-WA Kenya promotes and protects a wide range of rights, including rights to:
- Control fertility, to decide whether to have children, the number of children and the spacing of children
- Choose any method of contraception
- Protection against sexually transmitted diseases
- Access to adequate, affordable and accessible health services
- Abortion
- Life, integrity and security of the person
- Protection from all forms of violence, including sexual violence
- Protection against sexual harassment
- Protection against harmful cultural and traditional practices, including female genital mutilation
- Equality within marriage
